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Originally Posted by Bibbler
1. You must realize that I have lots & lots & lots of trees. Some even said I'd get NOTHING at my house. I was starting to think they were right until the system wouldn't work anywhere else..
2. While I plan to get out the chainsaw this winter, ........
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I may get a few more to the west once I de-tree the property. .....
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Just a quick comment re "de-tree"ing . You don't need to completely de-tree to get reception. Just as an example, look at a view of what I'm looking through to the SW (taken a couple months ago when still leaves on the trees):
I've added 5 little white circles, which were supposed to approximately show where the sats from G13, thru AMC10 are, however after looking at the image, I see it's off a bit, AMC11 and G15 are actually in those holes where you see a bit of sky near the bottom 3 spots. Actually, in the summer, all I can get is G13 and AMC11, and very poor reception on G15 but from Sept - May I can get fair reception on all but AMC10, which is always poor (it's spot should be lower, and further to the right, behind more trees.
But the point is, that reception of AMC11 and G15 is through a little couple little holes that I created by just removing some offending limbs from some of the trees. The picture doesn't show it well, but I'm looking underneath and through about 4 or 5 big trees to see AMC11. Before my cutting, I had no view of the sky through these trees there. I have cut down a couple trees completely to improve this view, however I still wouldn't have any reception west of G13 if it weren't for using one of those rope saws. I use a sling shot and fishing reel to throw a line over limbs, some of which were about 40' up or more, then used the fishing line to pull up heavier nylon line, then rope that the rope saw is connected to. Then I cut off the limbs with the rope saw. I've probably cut 30 or 40 some branches to get this view.
Initially, this worked very well, however I've found out that after about 3 or 4 years, where I've cut limbs, the tree tends to grow 5 or 6 little limbs back for every big limb I've cut, so it's only a temporary measure. However it is an alternative to removing the whole Tree.
BTW, the view from my little dish is even worse. I lose everything west of G10r behind the building. I could improve this with a taller pole, but then it would block my big dish.
Anyway, keeping the view of these sats open has been an ongoing struggle.