Wiring my street for DirecTV?

[RonP]

We are planning to move from the Seattle area to Asheville, NC. We’ve been with D for 13 years, have lifetime TiVo, and hate to give it up – especially with the future HD Tivo boxes. Charter cable is already in the street but I’ve heard nothing good from the locals about their service, cable card support, TiVo support, etc.

The street we will be moving to is private and HOA owned and maintained. There are 6 empty lots on the street. Ours will be the first house built. None of the lots have a line of site to the S-SW sky because they are all heavily treed - but at the end of the street there is a location that should pick up all the sats from 99º to 119º. From the potential dish location to the last house it's about 850’.

So…what would it take for the HOA to wire the street, and the future 6 houses, for DirecTV?

- Can it be done? Wouldn’t it be similar to setting up an apt building for DirecTV?
- Would there be legal/ordinance issue? Are we now a utility competing with cable?
- What dish would we use?
- What multiswitch? Where would it be located? Would it need power?
- Amplifiers? Where? Power?
- What type of (buried) cable?
- How many cables would be needed along the street? Four cables per house (24 total)? One SWM cable per house (6 total)?
- Could we contract with a local sat installer to do this job?
- Anything else ?

Thanks!

[Dssturbo1]

when they are clearing your lot get them to make sure to have an extra tree or two cleared to have LOS to the sats.

[stevel]

This will indeed be very much like wiring an apartment. There is special equipment for this - I don't pretend to understand any of it. Go to www.dbstalk.com where there are people who know about it.

[CrashHD]

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Also, something to keep in mind...If you are hooking up new equipment, there's a pretty good chance you will only need 99-103, which can be seen through a much narrower window than 99-119

[DeathRider]

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Also, something to keep in mind...If you are hooking up new equipment, there's a pretty good chance you will only need 99-103, which can be seen through a much narrower window than 99-119

I was going to suggest mounting the dish in the tree...guess you can use that to cut down the branches that might be in the way:D

[newsposter]

I was going to suggest mounting the dish in the tree...guess you can use that to cut down the branches that might be in the way:D

me thinks you are joking because trees grow and move etc and you cant even have 1 inch of play on a dish

[ZeoTiVo]

not to be a wet blanket but...

I would not be happy to have my HOA dues used in this way. Seems you should get some support from the people living there already

[sloan]

My friend's dad lives in Brevard (1 hour south as the crow flies?) and has the same kind of tree issue.

They ended up putting a large pole between 2 trees. I mean large, it is just high as the trees.

You'll have to investigate the apartment stuff.

I do know from personal experience that "normal" dish stuff suffers when I had runs of over 100 feet. I could bring down the system by removing one cable feed (as in, remove 1 feed from a working box) and it would affect (disable) the others.
This was powered stuff, back in the 3LNB days.

..........

Are the trees blocking you or is the mountain blocking you?

You should also experiment with a round dish.
The signal (in NC) comes in alot "higher" than the mounting arm on the dish would suggest. That elevation level/value means something.. get out a level and a protractor and take a guess with it.