Need to Camo a dish ! How ?

[Airhead]

I need to Camo (hide or cover) a dish. does anyone have any suggestions! I can mount it in the yard on a pole, but I have to hide (as well as possible). So that it is not a eye sore. This has nothing to do will local or apartment codes, just WIFE codes...if you know what I mean! Thanks for the suggestions!

[pmb1010]

Originally Posted by Airhead

I need to Camo (hide or cover) a dish. does anyone have any suggestions! I can mount it in the yard on a pole, but I have to hide (as well as possible). So that it is not a eye sore. This has nothing to do will local or apartment codes, just WIFE codes...if you know what I mean! Thanks for the suggestions!

If you could maybe link a photo of what it looks like from the "eye sore" perspective, we could offer suggestions.

A lot depends on which way the dish points relative to how you want to cover it up. Example, if I had a dish to cover, pole mounted on the ground at say 3 feet off the ground, I'd plant an evergreen ("christmas tree") in front of it.

Or if it's in the back yard, build a wishing well lawn ornament around it so it cant be seen.

[Airhead]

I haven't installed it yet to post a picture. But, I intended to mount it on a post about 3 0r 4 foot high and it will be in the back yard, but the yard is visible from the front street and our patio in the back of the house. Wife just does not to see it. Your idea about the evergreen, will it shoot, see, thru an evergreen?

[pmb1010]

Originally Posted by Airhead

I haven't installed it yet to post a picture. But, I intended to mount it on a post about 3 0r 4 foot high and it will be in the back yard, but the yard is visible from the front street and our patio in the back of the house. Wife just does not to see it. Your idea about the evergreen, will it shoot, see, thru an evergreen?

No it won't. You'll need to put the evergreen between wife and dish...

[swampthang7]

...I'd just mount it where it is most convenient for you,you can always get another wife. 8)

[Airhead]

Good answer.. I was hoping for some kinda screen or netting that I could to put over the dish and maybe plant some low shrubs around the dish. But, I was thinking surely someone else has had this problem before. and, solved it. Yea Yea, I know know the answer but it is cheaper to keep the Wife.

[swampthang7]

...mount it on the evergreen,and do a unique pruning job on it. 8)

[bobkat]

Originally Posted by pmb1010

No it won't. You'll need to put the evergreen between wife and dish...

LOL !!!! :lol:

I remember seeing a fake rock that covered the dish. I'll try to get some info and post it here.

kat

[bobkat]

K; here it is ---> http://www.dish-rock.com/rocks.htm

Dang things cost $300 !! :shock: I think you should make the wife pay for it... :lol:

kat

PS: I'm not sure they are as "beautiful" as the site suggests -- I think they look like those fake rocks we used to see in the old Star Trek TV series... :roll:
Well, better than nothing I guess... :?

[Airhead]

bobkat, thanks, I will check it out. How can the dish see / shoot thru the fake rock? At $300 per rock I would hate to get rock and then no sat signal. but it is exactly the type of thing that I am looking for.

[bobkat]

Originally Posted by Airhead

How can the dish see / shoot thru the fake rock?

Yeah, I wondered about that myself. I suspect the things are made of a very light sprayed-on material over wire screening, or perhaps plastic screening. You should email the manufacturer and ask them how the dish gets signal through the "rock".

kat

[Airhead]

I will contact them to see if they will tell me. Thanks again.

[Airhead]

FYI, I tried to contact the sat rock company and the phone number no longer works and my email is returned also. thanks fot the help, I will contact a landscape company to see if that carry someting that might work.

[bobkat]

Originally Posted by Airhead

FYI, I tried to contact the sat rock company and the phone number no longer works and my email is returned also. thanks fot the help, I will contact a landscape company to see if that carry someting that might work.

LOL !! Hmmmm.... guess they went TU :? Probably because they charged so much for their rocks. Oh well, maybe there are other companies that make that stuff. I'll try to find out more.

kat

[swampthang7]

airhead;
you never said this is a fixed or motorized dish.I have a maintenance company,and get calls from associations to do a "hide" job on large electric boxes,pump motors,water valve mains,etc..all the time.usually consisting of some 4x4's with dog ear picket fencing or lattice.if you do it this way,and plant some type of bush or fast growing vine,it actually becomes unnoticable in a matter of days...you just forget it is there.If the dish is motorized,you'll need more room(say 4'Wx8'Lx4'H). 8)

[Airhead]

Another great idea. I wonder if the Sat will see ok thru a trellis of ivy?
I could make that a part of the landscape for sure. the rock would look a little out of place, but the green vine would look fine.

[swampthang7]

you just leave that side open...like a horshoe shape.