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We had to cancel an installation today due to line-of-sight problems.
We have a number of mature oaks in our south lawn that will not allow us to do a roof installation. There is a wide vacant municipal property just to the south of our property which gives perfect line-of-site. The problem is that to get past the tree line we need to have a run of 150 to 250 feet to the splitter (depending where it has o be located) we will be using 4 receivers total.
The technician said that we would have to do a "pole mount" dish just outside the corner of our fence,
then run a buried cable to the house. He also indicated that it would need special cable to reduce the signal attenuation (RG11 or RG6 quad shielded
I would assume)
I definitely want to go with DirectTV. How do I set up a custom installation that will be able to do the long-run installation required at this property?
Cordially,
Mark D Henning.
dcd
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14 years ago
The technician said that we would have to do a "pole mount" dish just outside the corner of our fence,
I'll let others address the technical aspects of your installation, but as to pole location. I would absolutely not consider mounting the dish outside your property line. Take down trees, move fence, whatever, but keep both the pole and the dish within your property lines. The dish extends a good three feet south of the pole so consider than when you set the pole.
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peds48
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14 years ago
yeap, there is nothing to discuss here if you can't mount your dish inside your property line. DirecTv would not install your dish on someone else's property. but just in case you can mount your dish inside your property and need to go farther than 150 ft from dish to the house, you would need to install RG11 cable. DirecTv would not provide this for you. so you would need to install this yourself at your own cost.
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