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Originally Posted by EdFNJ
Ground mounting won't always work if you have an obstruction (like your home or a tree) between dish and direct view of sky from the sides or back of your home as I did. Also as for mowing issues with ground mounts just put a 3' diameter circle with flowers or stones around it and it won't get hit. I once weedwacked my wire in half before doing that up north. :P
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You can put the pole inside the planting bed about 3 feet from the house and have the dish pointing in the direction house because the satellites are higher in the sky than they are up north in, say, New England. Also DirectTV routes the wire under ground that leaves the wire protected even on the bottom 1 foot or so of the pole.
Still I wouldn't put it past a landscaper to weed wack the pole a foot off the ground or to bump into the pole while spraying the bed. But in 6 years here our pole dish hasn't moved, knock on wood
