Satellite dish placement/concealment ideas

[NJblue]

We will be having DirecTV installed at our house in TV. The back of our house has a clear view of the southern sky. Hence the ideal placement would be on the back roof of the house. However, that's a no-no according to the architectural review board. What have others done (either with landscaping or other ideas) to provide good reception but also keep the antenna from being a focal point.

[schotzyb]

Mine is on a short pole in the ground by the back entrance of my garage. No problem with reception.

[Sidney Lanier]

We just had Dish Network installed. The installers told us that the ideal situation would be the short pole in the ground, but in our case they couldn't find a location that would give direct line-of-sight (so to speak) to the satellite. Instead they mounted it to the back corner of the roof. We were told that the architectural review folks have a problem ONLY with mounting it to the roof in the FRONT of the house, and that even in this case, if it's the ONLY way to get proper reception, it would have to be done that way. I've never heard that it's an issue to mount it to the roof on the BACK of the house. Hmmm....

[BarryB]

There may be more options with the dish. I just don't like the idea of having the dish on or near the house

[chelsea24]

We have our Direct TV on a short pole towards the back of the house on the side facing the southern sky. You can see it only slightly from our lanai and we have put a Bottle Brush bush next to that part of the lanai and as it's filling out, you really can't see the dish at all. Wonderful reception.

[billethkid]

paint it to look like the vegitation....a sunflower would be nice...:laugh:

BTK

[chelsea24]

paint it to look like the vegitation....a sunflower would be nice...:laugh:

BTK

I don't know if you can do that, or if the paint would interfere, but what a cute idea. I love it! :laugh:

[SABRMnLgs]

We have lived in Florida for almost 30 years and would never ever get a dish again. We had one when we lived in Orlando and again when we lived in Oviedo. Both times we were sorry we got it.
95% of the reason is rain and cloud cover. Can't tell you the number of programs we have either missed or gotten cut off in the middle of due to rain, clouds or some weather problem. And it DOOOOooo rain here a lot.
Nothing like being out and about confident that your favorite program will get recorded. Then you see the clouds and rain come in. Sometimes your lucky, most of the time you can kiss your program goodby for that recording.
Also, don't like the idea of paying for 3-4 boxes so you can watch/record in differant rooms of your home.

:cus:

[chelsea24]

We have lived in Florida for almost 30 years and would never ever get a dish again. We had one when we lived in Orlando and again when we lived in Oviedo. Both times we were sorry we got it.
95% of the reason is rain and cloud cover. Can't tell you the number of programs we have either missed or gotten cut off in the middle of due to rain, clouds or some weather problem. And it DOOOOooo rain here a lot.
Nothing like being out and about confident that your favorite program will get recorded. Then you see the clouds and rain come in. Sometimes your lucky, most of the time you can kiss your program goodby for that recording.
Also, don't like the idea of paying for 3-4 boxes so you can watch/record in differant rooms of your home.

:cus:

I have to respectfully disagree. We've had Direct TV for over 8 months and we've only had one two minute outage in a super big storm. On the other hand, our Comcast internet has gone out quite a few times. That said, I have heard that the Dishnet has many more problems than Direct TV. I just love ours. ;)

[NJblue]

I've never heard that it's an issue to mount it to the roof on the BACK of the house. Hmmm....

What they told me was that it was not to be placed on any roof or anywhere that it is visible from the street. If it is to be attached to the house it must be no more then 3 feet off the ground.

I'm just learning about the "rules" and to what extent people salute them. It sounds like the, "it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission" approach is quite often the accepted practice. In my case, my backyard provides a clear view of the southern sky and should not be a problem to mount it on a pole back there.