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Originally Posted by wejones
I've even demonstrated that I could receive through a sheet of plywood if the plywood is right in front of the LNBF, however if you put the plywood several feet out in front of the dish, it kills the signal. (Ie it's more of a scattering thing than absorbtion thing, and the further away the further away the scattering takes the signal.
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Just got my motorized dish package today! Yahoo! And I was kind of astonished at the size of the dish. I had pictured it to be not all that much bigger than my triple sat
DTV dish, but, it is really big! 80cm to be exact.
The problem now, is, my subdivision
rules will not allow this size dish to be in view and where I had thought about placing it in the back yard is where my wife wants to put play equipment in the future.
In reading this post about the plywood, I was wondering if the same were true of vinyl. We have a solid vinyl privacy fence surrounding our back yard. If I were to mount the dish directly on the ground on a pole buried in concrete or say a 4' x 4' right in front of my fence (allowing for rotational tolerances of course), will I get adequate signal to enjoy FTA, or do I have to find another spot?
If I have to locate another spot, the problem will be with how to get the coax into our house. We are on a corner lot, and I don't know the exact size of our yard, but, we have a 16' x 42' pool with a 4.5' concrete apron around it.
Thanks for being so patient with a newbie!