DirecTV Dish
8/10/2009 2:57:10 PMLewis L(77706:0)
About 13 years ago, I became the first on my block to have a
Satellite TV dish!!! I carefully chose a location on the side of the house, and bolted that sucker into the bricks and had the reception up to the low 90s. Worked wonderfully for about ten years, and the the reception started dropping off, as observed by milder and milder storms causing the picture to freeze for a second or two. So I moved the dish to another part of the house, where there was another good signal. After a year, that signal was lost as the trees grew, so I moved it again, this time only getting a signal in the high eighties. Now, as the trees grew, I am down to a zero, and there is not a place on my property where I can find a clear shot at that satellite. I will have to cut down some trees to get a shot at the bird. I am in north Georgia, and the temperature and humidity get into the high nineties about noon, and stay that way until midnight.
Now, what I am asking is: Should I go out and cut down trees, get eaten alive by 'skeerers (as they are known in Georgia), or wait until cooler weather (November) and listen to "When are you going to fix that dish so I can watch TV?" fifteen or more times a day?? Thank you for your advece.
Lewis
8/10/2009 3:49:09 PMJon(77710:77706)
:About 13 years ago, I became the first on my block to have a Satellite TV dish!!! I carefully chose a location on the side of the house, and bolted that sucker into the bricks and had the reception up to the low 90s. Worked wonderfully for about ten years, and the the reception started dropping off, as observed by milder and milder storms causing the picture to freeze for a second or two. So I moved the dish to another part of the house, where there was another good signal. After a year, that signal was lost as the trees grew, so I moved it again, this time only getting a signal in the high eighties. Now, as the trees grew, I am down to a zero, and there is not a place on my property where I can find a clear shot at that satellite. I will have to cut down some trees to get a shot at the bird. I am in north Georgia, and the temperature and humidity get into the high nineties about noon, and stay that way until midnight.
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:Now, what I am asking is: Should I go out and cut down trees, get eaten alive by 'skeerers (as they are known in Georgia), or wait until cooler weather (November) and listen to "When are you going to fix that dish so I can watch TV?" fifteen or more times a day?? Thank you for your advece.
:Lewis
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I assume cable is not available in your location?
8/10/2009 3:55:34 PMLewis L(77712:77710)
::About 13 years ago, I became the first on my block to have a Satellite TV dish!!! I carefully chose a location on the side of the house, and bolted that sucker into the bricks and had the reception up to the low 90s. Worked wonderfully for about ten years, and the the reception started dropping off, as observed by milder and milder storms causing the picture to freeze for a second or two. So I moved the dish to another part of the house, where there was another good signal. After a year, that signal was lost as the trees grew, so I moved it again, this time only getting a signal in the high eighties. Now, as the trees grew, I am down to a zero, and there is not a place on my property where I can find a clear shot at that satellite. I will have to cut down some trees to get a shot at the bird. I am in north Georgia, and the temperature and humidity get into the high nineties about noon, and stay that way until midnight.
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::Now, what I am asking is: Should I go out and cut down trees, get eaten alive by 'skeerers (as they are known in Georgia), or wait until cooler weather (November) and listen to "When are you going to fix that dish so I can watch TV?" fifteen or more times a day?? Thank you for your advece.
::Lewis
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:I assume cable is not available in your location?
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Lewis
8/10/2009 6:20:06 PMCarl Crabtree(77721:77712)
:::About 13 years ago, I became the first on my block to have a Satellite TV dish!!! I carefully chose a location on the side of the house, and bolted that sucker into the bricks and had the reception up to the low 90s. Worked wonderfully for about ten years, and the the reception started dropping off, as observed by milder and milder storms causing the picture to freeze for a second or two. So I moved the dish to another part of the house, where there was another good signal. After a year, that signal was lost as the trees grew, so I moved it again, this time only getting a signal in the high eighties. Now, as the trees grew, I am down to a zero, and there is not a place on my property where I can find a clear shot at that satellite. I will have to cut down some trees to get a shot at the bird. I am in north Georgia, and the temperature and humidity get into the high nineties about noon, and stay that way until midnight.
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:::Now, what I am asking is: Should I go out and cut down trees, get eaten alive by 'skeerers (as they are known in Georgia), or wait until cooler weather (November) and listen to "When are you going to fix that dish so I can watch TV?" fifteen or more times a day?? Thank you for your advece.
:::Lewis
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::I assume cable is not available in your location?
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:Cable is available, but the service goes out long before the satellite does. I have found a spot where I can get a clear shot of the satellite for the next few years, I am just wondering wheather I should put up with the terrible Georgia summer or my wife's tongue. {;>)
:Lewis
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Well, I lived in south Georgia (Albany) for a few years and enjoyed it(in spite of the sand fleas) until the fire ants took over. However, never having been exposed to the effects of your wife's tongue, I'm unable to give any advise. Now if it were my wife's tongue, I'd fire up the chain saw and get busy.
8/11/2009 12:26:51 AMNorm Leal(77737:77721)
Hi Lewis
Satellite require a clear view of the southern sky. Trees will block the signal. If trees lose their leaves in winter some signal will be received. The only way you can receive a good signal year around is to cut some trees. I had to cut a tree down.
Norm
::::About 13 years ago, I became the first on my block to have a Satellite TV dish!!! I carefully chose a location on the side of the house, and bolted that sucker into the bricks and had the reception up to the low 90s. Worked wonderfully for about ten years, and the the reception started dropping off, as observed by milder and milder storms causing the picture to freeze for a second or two. So I moved the dish to another part of the house, where there was another good signal. After a year, that signal was lost as the trees grew, so I moved it again, this time only getting a signal in the high eighties. Now, as the trees grew, I am down to a zero, and there is not a place on my property where I can find a clear shot at that satellite. I will have to cut down some trees to get a shot at the bird. I am in north Georgia, and the temperature and humidity get into the high nineties about noon, and stay that way until midnight.
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::::Now, what I am asking is: Should I go out and cut down trees, get eaten alive by 'skeerers (as they are known in Georgia), or wait until cooler weather (November) and listen to "When are you going to fix that dish so I can watch TV?" fifteen or more times a day?? Thank you for your advece.
::::Lewis
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:::I assume cable is not available in your location?
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::Cable is available, but the service goes out long before the satellite does. I have found a spot where I can get a clear shot of the satellite for the next few years, I am just wondering wheather I should put up with the terrible Georgia summer or my wife's tongue. {;>)
::Lewis
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:Well, I lived in south Georgia (Albany) for a few years and enjoyed it(in spite of the sand fleas) until the fire ants took over. However, never having been exposed to the effects of your wife's tongue, I'm unable to give any advise. Now if it were my wife's tongue, I'd fire up the chain saw and get busy.
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8/11/2009 7:04:30 AMJohn(77740:77712)
You have not been married long enough - the wife's tongue will always win. Perhaps you could offer her an alternative to fill the normal TV viewing time like listening to old time radio shows while restoring sets with you. Tell her it is quality time because you love her so much :)
:Cable is available, but the service goes out long before the satellite does. I have found a spot where I can get a clear shot of the satellite for the next few years, I am just wondering wheather I should put up with the terrible Georgia summer or my wife's tongue. {;>)
:Lewis
8/11/2009 12:14:19 PMLewis L(77744:77740)
:You have not been married long enough - the wife's tongue will always win. Perhaps you could offer her an alternative to fill the normal TV viewing time like listening to old time radio shows while restoring sets with you. Tell her it is quality time because you love her so much :)
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::Cable is available, but the service goes out long before the satellite does. I have found a spot where I can get a clear shot of the satellite for the next few years, I am just wondering wheather I should put up with the terrible Georgia summer or my wife's tongue. {;>)
::Lewis
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Lewis
8/11/2009 8:50:12 PMVinny(77759:77712)
Lewis, I recently heard a story of a man who broke the law and had to stand in front of a judge. I do not remember what the crime was but the judge sentenced him to 10 years of marriage. I would cut the tree (stat).
Best wishes,
Vinny A.
8/12/2009 6:49:47 AMLewis L(77772:77759)
:Lewis, I recently heard a story of a man who broke the law and had to stand in front of a judge. I do not remember what the crime was but the judge sentenced him to 10 years of marriage. I would cut the tree (stat).
:Best wishes,
:Vinny A.
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What's the old joke: Remember when your dad said "If you doon't marry my daughter, I'll have you locked up for twenty years!"? Well today I would have been a free man.
Lewis
8/12/2009 9:11:00 PMVinny(77785:77772)
Lewis, very funny, this is our typical humor at work.
Best wishes,
Vinny A.
::Lewis, I recently heard a story of a man who broke the law and had to stand in front of a judge. I do not remember what the crime was but the judge sentenced him to 10 years of marriage. I would cut the tree (stat).
::Best wishes,
::Vinny A.
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:What's the old joke: Remember when your dad said "If you doon't marry my daughter, I'll have you locked up for twenty years!"? Well today I would have been a free man.
:Lewis
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8/13/2009 2:18:44 PMLewis L(77801:77785)
:Lewis, very funny, this is our typical humor at work.
:Best wishes,
:Vinny A.
Twenty six years at Delta Air Lines. A lot of that time in overhaul on the midnight shift. If it were not for jokes, we would all be in the state mental hospital. Working for an airline is bad for your mental health, as well as physical health. Midnight shift joke:
New Guy comes on to the midnight shift. At work, every once in a while, somebody calls out a number. "Sixty three!" and everybody would laugh.
"Hey, what's with the numbers and the laughter?" New Guy asked his OJT partner. "Aw, we've been telling the same jokes over and over for so long, that we just numbered them, so wheen someone calls out a number, we remember the joke and laugh at the punch line."
Wanting to be popular and fit in with the crowd, the New Guy hollers "Forty Seven!", but the others only chuckled a little. "Hey, what did I do wrong? I told a joke and nobody laughed. Why?"
"Well, ya know, there's just people can tell a joke, and others that can't."
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:::Lewis, I recently heard a story of a man who broke the law and had to stand in front of a judge. I do not remember what the crime was but the judge sentenced him to 10 years of marriage. I would cut the tree (stat).
:::Best wishes,
:::Vinny A.
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::What's the old joke: Remember when your dad said "If you doon't marry my daughter, I'll have you locked up for twenty years!"? Well today I would have been a free man.
::Lewis
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8/13/2009 9:09:48 PMLewis L(77814:77801)
::Lewis, very funny, this is our typical humor at work.
::Best wishes,
::Vinny
Hey, Vinny, here is a true story that just happened. While my wife was shopping, I was in the front yard pondering the cutting of tree limbs for the satellite dish, when my neighbor, Tim, happened by. I noticed he had a bandage on his hand. He said he had had a colonoscopy that afternoon, and the hand was where they sedated him.
When my wife came home from shopping, I told her about the incident, and she asked: "Where did he have it done?" So I told her. Now she is mad at me. How was I supposed to know she was asking about what hospital???
Lewis
8/14/2009 1:32:04 AMVinny(77820:77814)
Lewis, try stand up comedy, I laughed hard at that one.
Vinny A.
8/14/2009 1:59:57 AMVinny(77821:77820)
Lewis, before you get hurt and my laughs lessen try a tree cutter. Really, I work in an ER and lots of injuries happen in situations just like that.
I have learned (not following my own advice of course) that the lowest price sometimes is not the best deal, especially when meal time is through a tube,Your too valuable.
It reminds me of a story of an 18 year old guy who died years ago in the ER.
There was a man who had a son who was born with just a head, no other parts to his body. On his son's 18th birthday he took him to a bar to meet his friends, listen to an antique radio, and for his son's first drink. Well much to the surprise of everyone as soon as he finished his first drink his neck and chest popped out, after the second drink his arms and stomach popped out after about 10 drinks he was a whole person. Everyone in the bar was shocked and cheering with joy and the father was so proud. Well the 18 year old son was so happy that he ran outside the bar to dance in the street. What a moment for all. All of a sudden he was struck by a truck and later was pronounced dead in the ER.
So the moral of the story is that he should of quit when he was ahead.
Please do the same.
Vinny A.
8/15/2009 11:13:31 AMLewis L(77855:77821)
:Lewis, before you get hurt and my laughs lessen try a tree cutter. Really, I work in an ER and lots of injuries happen in situations just like that.
:I have learned (not following my own advice of course) that the lowest price sometimes is not the best deal, especially when meal time is through a tube,Your too valuable.
:It reminds me of a story of an 18 year old guy who died years ago in the ER.
:There was a man who had a son who was born with just a head, no other parts to his body. On his son's 18th birthday he took him to a bar to meet his friends, listen to an antique radio, and for his son's first drink. Well much to the surprise of everyone as soon as he finished his first drink his neck and chest popped out, after the second drink his arms and stomach popped out after about 10 drinks he was a whole person. Everyone in the bar was shocked and cheering with joy and the father was so proud. Well the 18 year old son was so happy that he ran outside the bar to dance in the street. What a moment for all. All of a sudden he was struck by a truck and later was pronounced dead in the ER.
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:So the moral of the story is that he should of quit when he was ahead.
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:Please do the same.
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Vinny:
I dated, and almost married, an ER nurse. They have seen everything! My career was with Delta Air Lines, I started out as a radioman, and wound up nearly thirty years later as an avionics guy. I have jumped out of a burning Boeing 727, a DC-9 that had the forward galley unsealed from the floor, and about one hundred thousand cockroaches went out of there like a black flood of water. Half of them ran up my pants leg, since I had hunched my way up behind the FOs instrument panel and was disconneting instruments. In both of the above cases, I came into close contact with stainless steel safety wire that had various and sundry things tied up to keep from unscrewing. The people that installed the fittings didn't take any particular care to leave the sharp ends on the SS hidden, so I have left considerable amounts of blood in airplanes.
Anyway, I have a little saw thingy that I can stand on the ground and cut limbs off of trees without getting very close to to the tree. And so...tooo...day (ta dah) the pipe is going into the ground and the dish is going onto the pipe and my wife is going to have the HGTV back and I am going to be able to read in peace for a change.
Lewis
8/16/2009 5:37:38 PMVinny(77897:77855)
Lewis, you have paid your dues.
Best wishes,
Vinny A.
8/22/2009 12:12:50 PMLewis L(78077:77897)
:Lewis, you have paid your dues.
:Best wishes,
:Vinny A.
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The satellite dish is planted in the ground, the co-axes are hooked up, the signal strength is over 80 (needs more tweaking). The wife is happy (and quiet). I need to bury the co-axes, ground the dish, and drink a six pack.
Lewis. P. S. When they say unobstructed view, they mean it!!
8/23/2009 2:26:36 AMVinny(78089:78077)
Well, good work mate, it's R and R now, that's rest and re-group.
Vinny A.
::Lewis, you have paid your dues.
::Best wishes,
::Vinny A.
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:The satellite dish is planted in the ground, the co-axes are hooked up, the signal strength is over 80 (needs more tweaking). The wife is happy (and quiet). I need to bury the co-axes, ground the dish, and drink a six pack.
:Lewis. P. S. When they say unobstructed view, they mean it!!
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8/11/2009 10:54:57 AMEd Kraushar(77743:77706)
I don't know how high you mounted the dish but you could consider getting a used TV tower and mounting the dish on it to get it above the trees.
I had a 30 foot TV tower, unused as I converted to satellite years ago. To get off dial up internet I added 2 more 10 foot sections and a 10 foot mast to clear trees for wireless internet.
Perhaps 2 or 3 tower sections would help. Here the going price for used ones is $30 per section.
Ed.
8/12/2009 6:45:55 AMLewis L(77771:77743)
:I don't know how high you mounted the dish but you could consider getting a used TV tower and mounting the dish on it to get it above the trees.
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:I had a 30 foot TV tower, unused as I converted to satellite years ago. To get off dial up internet I added 2 more 10 foot sections and a 10 foot mast to clear trees for wireless internet.
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:Perhaps 2 or 3 tower sections would help. Here the going price for used ones is $30 per section.
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:Ed.
the length of the tower would not be accepted by the homeowners association, I am sure.
LewisI think I have found a solution, just cutting off some limbs off of a cedar tree and I will hav a dish invisible from the street and pointed right at the bird.
Lewis
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8/13/2009 2:24:02 PMLewis L(77802:77771)
::I don't know how high you mounted the dish but you could consider getting a used TV tower and mounting the dish on it to get it above the trees.
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::I had a 30 foot TV tower, unused as I converted to satellite years ago. To get off dial up internet I added 2 more 10 foot sections and a 10 foot mast to clear trees for wireless internet.
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::Perhaps 2 or 3 tower sections would help. Here the going price for used ones is $30 per section.
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::Ed.
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:the length of the tower would not be accepted by the homeowners association, I am sure.
:LewisI think I have found a solution, just cutting off some limbs off of a cedar tree and I will hav a dish invisible from the street and pointed right at the bird.
:Lewis
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I am making progress, have most of the limbs cut away and a new metal pipe ready to plant, also the bag of concrete. Using a post hole digger on a Georgia afternoon in August is cruel and unusal punishment. Thank God for cold beer.
Lewis