I currently have Dish Network but will be moving in two weeks. I would like nothing more to keep my service and avoid going back to Comcast. But my new house is on a wooded lot with the bulk of the trees due south and west.
According to the Dish website, the azimuth ( I assume thats the direction. We don’t use them big words where I growed up) has to be 243. Does this mean 243 degrees, which would be more WSW than south?
If so, I have a small chance at keeping my service. Overall, how bad does the tree blockage have to be before you lose service? One tree, several trees?
No, that’s the altitude. Azimuth is the compass direction with due North being 0 degrees, East being 90 degrees, etc. So, yes, 243 degrees would be roughly WSW. However, tree growth does strongly attenuate the signal so you should have athe installation contractor do a site survey to determine if your location is suitable or can be made suitable.
One thing to think of, the dish can be mounted someplace other than right on the house. You can’t get too far away I guess, the signal strength may suffer. My dish is mounted on a 4 ft tall pole just on the other side of the trees that would have blocked it had it been mounted on the house. It’s maybe 75 ft from the receiver and works fine. I dug a ditch and buried the cable in a piece of PVC pipe, got a length of good coax from the cable company and hooked it all up. Makes it easy to knock the snow off with it being close to the ground.
I wondered about this. It never was clear to me if the coordinates DirecTV gave me when I entered my location took into account the magnetic declination or not. It’s been so long I can’t remember which it was, but I do know that it wasn’t mentioned. I had to use trial and error to figure it out.
Or perhaps just a tree trimmer.