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SCVJeff
Dec 13, 2014Explorer
How far up in the air do you need to get to clear a path? It wouldn't be the 1st time that satellite antennas are installed on towers to clear near field obstacles. I've done it more than once.
You can run coax several hundred feet before having to upsize the coax (to minimize losses) coming to the house, and after that it might require going to fiber. If you want to pursue satellite, take a tour around the property and/ or neighbors you get along with and see what you can do. If one of them is running satellite there is no reason you can't split that feed as long as you're not tapped out on distance.
As far as Internet, how do you get it now? If it's on cable then you're still bound to them for that. IF you keep that and are OK with one channel at a time for live TV, buy a Slingbox and install it at a friends house. That will give you OTA from wherever it's installed, and a feed off their DSS, but you would be locked to whatever they are watching.
You can run coax several hundred feet before having to upsize the coax (to minimize losses) coming to the house, and after that it might require going to fiber. If you want to pursue satellite, take a tour around the property and/ or neighbors you get along with and see what you can do. If one of them is running satellite there is no reason you can't split that feed as long as you're not tapped out on distance.
As far as Internet, how do you get it now? If it's on cable then you're still bound to them for that. IF you keep that and are OK with one channel at a time for live TV, buy a Slingbox and install it at a friends house. That will give you OTA from wherever it's installed, and a feed off their DSS, but you would be locked to whatever they are watching.
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