When my roommate and I were living together, we enjoyed watching the new season of the Simpson’s… However, after we both moved to new places we missed one of the new episodes. This week we were going to be prepared to watch the Simpson’s. I took his satellite system to my new house because I thought that I had a good southern view. I do have a good southern view; just not a south eastern view.
Then I realized that my house was almost due east to west so I ran out to the front of the house with the satellite dish and held it with my hand. It was pointed into a bush. Then I went to check the receiver I noticed that the guide data loaded. This was odd. It’s not supposed to get the guide data unless it has a signal. I navigate to the system setup and view the signal… What’d you know; it’s 75% on my first try at aiming!
It helps that my room mate spent a _long_ time mounting the dish to a 4×4 and aiming it so that the 4×4 had to be aligned with each flat side facing due North, West, South, and East. All that I really had to do was eye ball if the post was perpendicular and level with the ground.
I then proceeded to figure out how I could mount this 4×4 with the dish attached. At this point I had opened the garage door just enough so that I could see the OSD of the receiver in the garage. Then I looked at the opening in the garage door and 4×4 in my hand… Since the weight of the dish was pulling away from the house, all I had to do was slip the top half of the 4×4 under the garage door, let friction and gravity do the rest of the work.
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