safe/temp portable sat mount on roof ideas
The area we're headed has lots of obstructions so I'll have to get my Pathfinder X2 up high. Our roof is not fiberglass, and is rounded. Any good ideas on how to put the dish up there for 5 months w...
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rhagfo wrote:Sam Spade wrote:
Ground obstructions have little to do with satellite reception.
You need "line of site" to the bird and mounting height of your dish usually won't make that better.
Either you have a straight shot up through the trees at the right angle......or you don't.
You are so wrong on this.
Getting the dish 12’ to 13’ higher may be all that is needed to clear trees that kill reception.
Nope. Not wrong. Maybe not clear enough though.
Consider that moving it's location on the ground something less than 3 feet should accomplish the same thing. Your clear line of sight that is a foot higher also intersects the ground somewhere VERY nearby.......if your starting point for that extra 12 inch elevation was ground level.
