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Originally Posted by glen4cindy
I will have to do some measurements because my fence HAS to hide the dish from sight. I guess I need to know, before I buy anything, how high a 4 to 6 foot dish will sit considering the tilt that will be present. I would think that a 6 foot dish will not sit 6 feet high due to the tilt, but, these are things I will have to have figured out to keep the dish hidden from view.
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Hi Glen; That can be done with a 6-foot dish, an did a job a wile back for a big time tampa lawyer that moved into a dead restricted subdivision, where we set up a 7 1/2-foot channel master mess dish, that was not seen at all in his back yard from the 6-foot wood fence that went around the back of the home. an it took 2-men 2-days to complete it with lots an i mean lots of digging. an this man wanted his big dish an his DSR-922, he also had
DTV, but like the 4DTV better.
An this is what we did an how. 1st found a site where dish could go, an not being blocked by any buildings trees ect. then droped the ground level by 1 foot lower then dug a hole, for the satellite pipe 3 1/2foot deep an put a 5 foot section of pipe in an concretted it in, with only about of 20 inches of pipe out of the ground. then we built the dish an set it on the pole, an seen where we needed to dig a swale for the lower satellites to get. then we dug a swale about 8-foot wide an about 2 1/2 foot deep so the dish had full movement from AMC-7 to galaxy-6 (down in Fla have sand an very good drainage with water). then after all that left an came back the next day to finish up an get it running. then after getting dish peaked an on the arc, back to diggiging agin, to get clear the ground level for the rock garden the landscapper was going to put in where we dug it up. an it all came out nice looking with nothing seen from any of the other homes next to him, on any satellite. when that dish was on AMC-9 our thru south satellite you could reach out an touch the noise cone of the dish an the edge of the dish at knee level.
Now his dish we moved had a polar mount, but could not use it, reason why the
actuator would hit the ground, so got a channel master Horz to Horz mount an replaced it . we knew this going into this job. and all in all Glen that job was a pain in the --- for all the digging, but if you seen it with the rock garden an the plants, that the landscapper did it look real nice.
Would of been easer if we could of got a Bobcat back their to do the digging, but no way even had to park the van in the garage an carry every thing tru the home to the back yard, so no one knew what was going on. Hope all this helps you out Glen on getting a
C-band system up an running, Good Luck...