Some years back there was a guy on another forum somewhere in Central America getting the DirecTV 101 sat with a huge dish, I think it was around maybe 18 feet in diameter

, he posted a pic that I should have saved, the dish was mounted on the flat roof of a building.
I know Dishnet tightened up their beams sometime back and a lot of ppl "down south" lost signals on some of the Dishnet sats with their current set-ups.
Not sure if the DirecTV fringe area has changed with all the newer sats.....