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Originally Posted by pmb1010
do any of your neighbors have directv or dish?
That will give you approximate "look" for 110 degrees, which is about south west on a compass.
If you stand at their dish and look about where it's aimed, you can get an idea where you mount your dish - what it would need to see.
It has to be quite clear for FTA. Dish and Directv can tolerate a couple branches (sometimes) but anything in the way of FTA is trouble.
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Except it's kind of hard to tell what direction one of these offset dishes is
aiming. But doing what you say, you would get an idea of how high a tree you can see over.
Re Dishnet/DTV being more tolerant, I think this is not really that they can tolerate a branch or two more than an FTA dish, but instead, I think it is because those little 18" dishes only need an 18" hole between the branches, whereas a 3' dish needs a 3' hole, and a 10' dish needs a 10' hole, etc. A few branches will affect
DTV or Dishnet the same as any other dish, in fact, since the DBS dishes are smaller, it seems more likely that a single branch will block a higher percentage of the signal to me. I think that there is a feeling that since DBS signals are stronger, that they will go branches better, but this isn't the case, because the dishes are smaller, and the actual signal that reaches the receiver is pretty much the same for DBS or linear FTA sats, so I really think they are equally susceptable to a percentage of the signal being blocked.