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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Not qualified to speak to 2, but as to 1 --- the installer put my dish on a part of my house I completely would not have figured --- the eaves of the north side. The dish's field of vision is shooting up over the ridgeline of the roof at about 40°. I assumed he'd have to mount it on my chimney; I was wrong. As it turns out, it was because this was the easiest place for the (lazy) installer to run the coax,* but it also happened to be less conspicuous than I'd feared. If your roof pitch is less than about 40°, you might be able to shoot the satellites from the back side of your house.
*Universal experience of people on the tivocommunity.com boards is that DirecTV installers are like children --- you must lead them with a firm hand to keep them from doing whatever is easiest.
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My roof is basically flat (it's an ooooold row house/brownstone in the city), and the front of the house faces south. I had not thought about the chimney, but then the question of where to run the coax becomes an issue. Also, it puts a kink in my dreams of a roof deck. Hell, maybe I should install the roof deck then attach the dish to the deck...
