Selecting the best location for your Satellite Dish
First, you have to decide on the exact location where best to install your satellite dish. There are a few issues that you need to take into account here.
Considerations shall include:
Remember that Dream satellites are in a geo-stationary orbit above the equator. Therefore, a satellite dish must point due South when your position is located north of the equator and North if you are located south of the equator.
Choose a location that is easily accessible in case you need to clean snow or debris out of your satellite dish, or to re-adjust the dish in case it has lost its alignment. A suitable location is to attach the dish to a post which has been sunken in the ground.
The chosen location should be unobstructed by trees, branches, buildings, etc. In addition, make sure that the growth of new foliage does not impede your system.
Ideally, the selected location should be such as to allow you to take a route that is as straight and as close to your television set as possible.
Pick a location that is away from power lines and other service utilities.
