1 less tree.....1 more sat...

[wejones]

After posting today that I had lost the 135 sat (AMC10), I was outside watching a logging skidder pull a DirecTV truck out of the quick-sand that my road is in the spring, and the logger, who I've met before, asked if I had any trees I needed cutting. This was too much to resist, as I had 1 big oak leaning towards my garage, and another oak leaning towards my shed (I cut trees all the time, but this was leaning a good 10 degrees toward my garage, which had me worried), and this second oak is one of 3 trees that are blocking my western horizon. So I paid the guy to cut down the trees (which involved him climbing up about 40', and topping it, and then cutting section by section.)
Anyway, after these trees were down, I checked, and I now have a pretty good signal on G15, and an average signal on AMC10. Unfortunately, not much FTA down there, but the analog was coming in on AMC10, almost sparklie free, and it was sparklie free on G15. Got the California channel FTA, although it was poor quality.
Anyway, with this tree gone, I may be able to see western sats in the summer. Have to wait till the leaves come out to see. I'm now looking at the 2nd of the 3 trees blocking the horizon.... it's also an oak.... not a syrup tree...and it's not leaning toward the house. It may go next.

[elgemcdlf]

Originally Posted by wejones

After posting today that I had lost the 135 sat (AMC10), I was outside watching a logging skidder pull a DirecTV truck out of the quick-sand that my road is in the spring, and the logger, who I've met before, asked if I had any trees I needed cutting. This was too much to resist, as I had 1 big oak leaning towards my garage, and another oak leaning towards my shed (I cut trees all the time, but this was leaning a good 10 degrees toward my garage, which had me worried), and this second oak is one of 3 trees that are blocking my western horizon. So I paid the guy to cut down the trees (which involved him climbing up about 40', and topping it, and then cutting section by section.)
Anyway, after these trees were down, I checked, and I now have a pretty good signal on G15, and an average signal on AMC10. Unfortunately, not much FTA down there, but the analog was coming in on AMC10, almost sparklie free, and it was sparklie free on G15. Got the California channel FTA, although it was poor quality.
Anyway, with this tree gone, I may be able to see western sats in the summer. Have to wait till the leaves come out to see. I'm now looking at the 2nd of the 3 trees blocking the horizon.... it's also an oak.... not a syrup tree...and it's not leaning toward the house. It may go next.

If you dig a little around the base you might be able to get it to lean towards the house thus justifying it's demise to your wife Of course if you dig to much ...

[wejones]

Originally Posted by wejones

After posting today that I had lost the 135 sat (AMC10), I was outside watching a logging skidder pull a DirecTV truck out of the quick-sand that my road is in the spring, and the logger, who I've met before, asked if I had any trees I needed cutting. This was too much to resist, as I had 1 big oak leaning towards my garage, and another oak leaning towards my shed (I cut trees all the time, but this was leaning a good 10 degrees toward my garage, which had me worried), and this second oak is one of 3 trees that are blocking my western horizon. So I paid the guy to cut down the trees (which involved him climbing up about 40', and topping it, and then cutting section by section.)
Anyway, after these trees were down, I checked, and I now have a pretty good signal on G15, and an average signal on AMC10. Unfortunately, not much FTA down there, but the analog was coming in on AMC10, almost sparklie free, and it was sparklie free on G15. Got the California channel FTA, although it was poor quality.
Anyway, with this tree gone, I may be able to see western sats in the summer. Have to wait till the leaves come out to see. I'm now looking at the 2nd of the 3 trees blocking the horizon.... it's also an oak.... not a syrup tree...and it's not leaning toward the house. It may go next.

Well...... the trees got their revenge. Even though I've moved the dish several times since I posted the above, and up until a couple weeks ago still was getting reception.... the other nearby trees seemed to have grown. A couple days ago, I tried going down to the west, and I can barely get any reception west of G14, and even G14 and G10 seem to be down in signal too. I thought that I had gotten blown off alignment, so I went out and did all the push up, pull down things, and it's aimed as good as it can be, however I looked from behind the dish to where it was aimed, and the trees around the hole I was aiming through have filled in over the last couple weeks, so that I can barely see the sky west of G14. Also the pine trees next to the 2 trees I cut down last summer to improve my AMC6 reception seem to have grown too, so that in the last week I've gone from about 90% quality on the MSNBC channels, down to where I"m barely able to lock it. :-( The only good thing about this, is that the tree blocking this sat is about half dead. The top is growing fast, but the bottom half of the tree seems to be dying, so hopefully my wife won't mind that being cut down. The trees blocking me to the west though are pretty much all maples, and the one most in the way gave me a LOT of syrup this year, so I guess I'll just have to wait for winter for those western sats.

[Corey]

I've got dutch elm disease too, in that I have too many dutch elms to the south of my house. Ok, they aren't dutch elms, but they are freaking trees. Goddamn, carbon-sinking, oxygen-creating, pollen-cloud-creating, summer-sun shading, Ku-band-sucking trees.

I've been thinking only semi-jokingly about putting the dish on a rail car that can run up and down the length my backyard to be able to avoid trees for particular satellites. Please stop me. I beg of you!

[rainman]

yep the trees have got me to on the eastern side the problem is they are not on my property if they were they would be gone.