# I Want My Dish Back. Any Advice? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 25, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-dish-back-any-advice/482917 "2009-01-25T14:15:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-dish-back-any-advice/482917/21 "2009-01-27T15:59:57Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Porn much? 😉 Before I had DishNetwork I was using two small fixed dishes for Dish Network and the Canadian equivalent of unscrambled music audio. I was aiming the dish on the barn and heard a Blues song, “You know I’ve got some bad habits, Baby, but the one I’m going to lose is you.” As far as the Canadian stuff goes, C&W in French is freaky. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-dish-back-any-advice/482917/22 "2009-01-27T17:25:46Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Well, yeah, but I thought the OP would have to move it in order to hide it from the bad guys. Maybe a tripod would be in order. > 🙂 Problem when you move it though, is getting pointed back at the satellite when the black helicopters are gone. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-dish-back-any-advice/482917/23 "2009-01-27T17:50:34Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > Problem when you move it though, is getting pointed back at the satellite when the black helicopters are gone. 😉 If you are in a fixed position looking at the two Dish Network satellites, you can repoint it with a compass. You could mark the alignment on the floor of the balcony and cn of cement. You could glue a compass to the tripod. The elevation and skew are fixed with set screws and remain constant. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-dish-back-any-advice/482917/24 "2009-01-27T21:39:16Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Completely [unenforcable](http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html). > > But I’ll have to leave it to my fellow Dopers who actually possess tact to suggest a diplimatic way to broach this to your landlord. Reading through that link, you are going to be stuck with finding some way to mount a dish, under 1 meter in diameter, in a space that is for your exclusive use, say a balcony. In addition, the owners/association can prevent you from drilling holes in an exterior wall. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-dish-back-any-advice/482917/25 "2009-01-27T22:00:29Z")
> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#): > > Reading through that link, you are going to be stuck with finding some way to mount a dish, under 1 meter in diameter, in a space that is for your exclusive use, say a balcony. In addition, the owners/association can prevent you from drilling holes in an exterior wall. Well, he could sink a post into a bucket of cement, or get a tripod, or build a table to hide it in, or get a fake rock, or any one of the many suggestions made by other posters in this thread already. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-dish-back-any-advice/482917.md?page=1)