Installing a dish at your APARTMENT or CONDO

[Admin]

If you live in an apartment, townhouse, or condo, there are some restrictions on where you can mount a dish. No one can prevent you from installing a dish (with certain rules - see below). See the FCC rules about that here: http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html

In general, if you have an exclusive use area like a balcony or patio facing South, you should be able to setup a dish without a problem.

Also, here is another diagram that will show your exclusive use areas: http://www.dishnetwork.com/downloads...stomersart.pdf

If you have any questions about this topic, post it in this forum. :mozilla_laughing:

[TelStar-5]

Those tripods work great for aparments iv even made a few thnags in the past like buying a cement block with 2 metel rods mounted inside the concreat then I hammerd a 4x4 on top of it.

[NC1]

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[lpgao939]

This apllies to Canada too?

[bobkat]

Originally Posted by lpgao939

This apllies to Canada too?

Canada has no rules (yet) like the FCC has for the U.S. It is up to the landlord or property management company to set the rules for dishes on apartments and condos.

kat

[sadyboy]

I used to live in a town house and they wouldn't allow any dish to be installed

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[rainman]

Originally Posted by sadyboy

I used to live in a town house and they wouldn't allow any dish to be installed

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Thats why I like the country no neighbors to worry about the closest one is mom and dad so no problems.

[Icontac]

Has anyone ever tried setting up a dish inside a window.somewhere I cant remember where I saw a dish mounted upside.If anyone knows where that site is please let me know.

[Mr.Arizona]

Maybe I am wrong with what I am saying, but as far as I know, the problem with installing dishes is drilling wholes into walls and insurance questions.
What I did, and nobody could say anything against it, while I lived in an apartment was following: I went to the next Lowes/HomeDepot/whatever and got following things ->
1. A big black bucket (~10 Gallons)
2. A long (~4 foot) zinc tube with a diameter of about 1 inch
3. A bag of concrete
4. Some string
5. A water leveler

I poured the concrete mix in the bucket, added lots of water and started mixing until it got thicker. After that I set the zinc tube in the middle of the bucket, while using the leveler, and tied it up with lots of strings to stabilize it until the concrete dried out (~1.5 days).
No holes in the walls, no brackets mounted somewhere, absolutely nothing connected to anything someone could complain about.

[Mr.Arizona]

Originally Posted by Icontac

Has anyone ever tried setting up a dish inside a window.somewhere I cant remember where I saw a dish mounted upside.If anyone knows where that site is please let me know.

If your glass is "just" simple glass ( no special isolated windows ) you can try it, but you will still loose signal quality.

If your balcony is covered and you want to install a dish but nobody should be able to see it, yes, you can mount the dish upside down. Works without any problems. There is no rule that an offset dish has to be mounted with the lnb-arm down.

[hubriscorp]

I too live in an apartment but they let me install a dish

[jchance]

I moved to Louisiana from New Hampshire in 97 and my only option was Dish Network or Direct TV for pay television. Getting permission was easy there. My landlords were a sweet old Cajun couple and treated me like a member of the family, their French cousin from the north and all. It took all of two seconds literally to have them say OK and that was it.

When I moved back up north it was pure hell. I used to live in this condo complex before my move south so I knew a majority of the condo association board. That was the only way I was able to get a waiver. Property management gave me such the run around Direct TV accused me of trying to defraud them. I even referred them to the property management company. They would not take the time to confirm I was trying to get a waiver and charged me for the promotional program at full price for everything.

I was at the end of my rope. Property management after 4 months, thats right 4 months finally said nope, not happening. I went to my neighbor on the board and expressed my disgust with property management and how they handled the situation. He informed me that the board had never received my request for a waiver. Which it is the board who decides under most community charters not property management.

He was livid. This current property management company and prior ones like most do what they want not what they are allowed to do under their contract. My neighbor approved me on the waiver to extend past my deck if necessary. I am allowed to set a mast bracket into the roof soffit and raise a dish up above the peak of the roof if necessary on masting as well. Living on the top floor has a perk. I do that and I will have no problems with line of sight. Max I need like 10' to get the dish above the roof line and I have a complete clear line of sight.

You want a waiver that is all inclusive to any possible install application you might want to do? My advice have a build a rapport and relationship with your neighbors if living in a condo because you never know when one of them might get elected to the board. Another consideration become a part of the community decision process and run for the board or go to the meetings and vote on the decisions that effect your complex.

Hope this advice can help with most think the property management company is where to turn on getting a waiver. If I had this advice, it wouldn't have been 4 months of hell and also if I did get the waiver from property management it would have been to allow me to secure the dish on the railing only which would not allow for a line of sight anyways for the Direct TV satellite.

[boz]

Federal regulations prohibit this sort of crap. You don't need permission to install a DBS dish on rental property that you have exclusive access to.

Attaching it to their property could be an issue, but nothing should prohibit you from putting a dish on a pole in a 5 gallon bucket of concrete and having it on your patio.

Search for the FCC Fact sheet for preemption of placement of direct broadcast satellite equipment.

[jchance]

Where I live isn't a rental property, we own the condo itself but the outside of the building is their territory. My situation is that I have to physically screw into the soffit to mount a bracket. The wood that runs along the edge / underside of the roof's edge is beyond where I can secure the dish to and also it under the law it can not extend past your personal area such as the deck. Mine will be well above the edge of the roof and probably the peak too depending on line of sight. The dish pointer google page has that as being iffy. That is why I had to get a waiver myself.