Got hooked up today!!

[Azshawn]

Im pretty excited. Dropped cox. Directv was installed today. Got the brand new hr23's and the new single lnb swm dish. No extra wires. No mess. Everything through my homes existing cox media panel. Here are some pics. Keep in mind they had no choice but to give me the under eave mount. A+ directv!

http://members.cox.net/fastse-r/dish.jpg
http://members.cox.net/fastse-r/mount.jpg

[dirtyblueshirt]

Congrats! looks like a nice installation, glad it worked out for you!

[litzdog911]

Sweet!

[dshu82]

Welcome aboard!

[Stuart Sweet]

Sweet!

Yes?


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Seriously, welcome to the family!

[avengence]

I just got my slimline 5 set up last night! Wooo what fun it is to have all those HD channels at your fingertips. Cant wait to see the final survivorman in HD :)

[dettxw]

Welcome!

Assume that's the installer in the pic?

Didn't know they did those kind of mounts. I worry about my roof mount with bolts through the shingles, will they stay sealed and keep out the water. At least there are actual boards under the shingles instead of that cheap particle board stuff they build houses with these days.

Did you keep the cox internet?

[DTV_INSTALLER]

Shouldn't that installer be wearing a hardhat if he's on a ladder??

:p

[curt8403]

Shouldn't that installer be wearing a hardhat if he's on a ladder??

:p


there is no ladder in evidence, He must be standing in the bed of his truck or on his van

[Greg Alsobrook]

Very nice!

:welcome_s

[avengence]

Welcome!

Assume that's the installer in the pic?

Didn't know they did those kind of mounts. I worry about my roof mount with bolts through the shingles, will they stay sealed and keep out the water. At least there are actual boards under the shingles instead of that cheap particle board stuff they build houses with these days.

Did you keep the cox internet?

I had the same worry with my shingles but I guess its not a big deal I just put that old henrys stuff on and around the bolts. Just cover the bottom of the mount if you want with it. Thats if you arent ever going to take it down.

[satjoe]

[QUOTE=DTV_INSTALLER;1927203]Shouldn't that installer be wearing a hardhat if he's on a ladder??

:p[/QUOTE
What is he going to drop on his head at that location. Just look at that blue sky, and a tee shirt. Im very jealous.

[kevinm34232]

That is a funky looking mount, doesn't look very sturdy without monopoles which should just brace it from wind. The undereave mounts used here are just very large versions of the regular mast, which bolts into the wall (usually concrete block) and then comes out far enough to clear the eave and then up.

[curt8403]

That is a funky looking mount, doesn't look very sturdy without monopoles which should just brace it from wind. The undereave mounts used here are just very large versions of the regular mast, which bolts into the wall (usually concrete block) and then comes out far enough to clear the eave and then up.


I've seen them before, they look flimsy, but are rock solid

[BattleZone]

That is a funky looking mount, doesn't look very sturdy without monopoles which should just brace it from wind. The undereave mounts used here are just very large versions of the regular mast, which bolts into the wall (usually concrete block) and then comes out far enough to clear the eave and then up.

Newer houses in California won't work with the "elephant trunk" mount; the walls are stucco-covered styrofoam, or even worse, styro-stucco (which has been banned). When the Ka/Ku dish first came out, we had to remount a few that had been mounted on the wall and ended up on the ground, along with a chunk of wall (these were mounted by other contractors, not us). In my area, newer homes virtually require an under-eave mount, with tile roofs, fake stucco walls, and narrow side-yards with no line-of-site.

I had been buying standard-size undereave mounts and other mounts from a company called Universal Satellite Accessories for several years, and I worked with them to develop the first Ka/Ku undereave mount when it was first released. We were losing 60% of the installs in the newer areas until it became available due to the construction of the houses.

Two years later, around mid-2007, DirecTV tried to make them a part of a standard install by buying a bunch of ultra-cheap Chinese-made copies of this mount and providing them to installers for free. And that was fine until the mega-wind storm on Jan 4, 2008.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2008_Western_North_American_super_storm

A bunch of those cheap mounts broke and sent dishes tumbling to the ground, or worse, onto other valuable property.

Not long after, DirecTV "banned" all undereave mounts, though not a single Universal mount broke. DirecTV is back to buying mounts from Universal, at least for Northern CA... :)

[kevinm34232]

OK, I see the problem there. The houses here are usually concrete block if they have stucco. Sometimes there will be a stucco over wood on a frame house remodel, or a 2nd story. We very rarely have houses that have exposed rafters like over there, except on older historic houses.