Any solutions for this problem

[John Walsh]

I am closing on my new house in a few weeks and of course my main concern is hooking up my Satellite. Two big problems which manifest themselves in the form of two very large ficus trees to my southwestern sky. I see no way that I can mount the dish on my house but I may be possible to put it on the ground beyond the trees. Problem there is it is about 40 yards to the connection in the house then I need to make the runs to the different rooms. Is that too great of a distance or is it possible to boost the signal sufficiently?

[Rick_EE]

Have you thought about cutting down the trees? :)

[John Walsh]

Originally posted by Rick Densing
Have you thought about cutting down the trees? :)

I have certainly thought about it but these are big, beautiful trees. They will give me a lot of shade while I am out there mowing the lawn

[RichW]

John, the other thing you may have to worry about down there is grounding such a system for lightning protection. As you know, the lightning storms can be horrendous in South Florida.

[DarrellP]

You didn't mention D* or E*. The new E* Pro series of switches allow a much longer cable run, I don't recall the numbers, but I'm sure someone will help me out here.

[Scott Greczkowski]

Unfortunately the Pro LNB's and Switches are not available yet. So that does him no good at the moment.

And Rick I think you just like chopping things (i.e. check out his avatar) :D

[woodman]

John:
You can certainly put an "inline amplifier" in the line from the dish to boost the signal sufficiently to overcome the loss incurred by 120-150 ft. of coax. The amp needs to be installed in the line out near the dish for best results. Then, you should be "good-to-go". The runs from the point of entry to the various rooms should not pose a problem unless they're humongously long.

Hope this helps you

[Richard King]

Another alternative is to use RG-11 between the dish and the house and then RG-6 from the switches to the televisions.

IIRC Dish Pro will feed up to 200' as is.

[Lightnin1]

The longest install I have ever done was 200' away. He had 2 dual LNBF's going into 2 SW-21 switches for 2 receivers. He lived toward the bottom side of a steep hill with 221* behind him at the worst possible place. I was forced to install a pole mount at the top of the hill, 1-1/4 conduit all the way, and 2 pedestals at 75' and 150' intervals, both of which had inline signal amps. The system works great. He gets an average of 105 on each bird.

He also called me about a week ago wanting a 3rd dish installed for 2 more local channels. It will be a breeze.

Hope this helps you

[Dmitriy]

Originally posted by John Walsh
is it possible to boost the signal sufficiently?

You may also try using a bigger dish. Maybe 24" or 30". Something like this one http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1356663419.

[Dmitriy]

I think this should be moved to Technical Talk

[MarkA]

Mitya, and John - the signal is more than adequate. The problem is voltage. If you use RG-11/U you'll have a lot better luck than RG-6/U