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Originally Posted by glen4cindy
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! |
I don't think they can stop you from having a dish less than 1 meter. It used to be that if you belonged to some planned community, that the community organization could control what you put up, but I'm pretty sure that this has changed. I'm sure someone here can point you to the FCC documents that cover this.
Re vinyl, I would think that would work, unless there is some metal imbedded in it. It's not always obvious what materials are transparent to microwave. I've found that for receiving some frequencies that it works better through the wooden walls than it does through the windows. Ie the windows have metalic coatings and constituents in the glass.