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Originally posted by zippyt
Truthfully i don't know , I would think you could build up the area with dirt and dig a big ass hole to fill with cement to secure your sat mount pole .
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My "big ass hole" (and you'd better be careful to have proper spacing in that phrase) which has the concrete base for the dish is somewhere between a foot and 18" wide, and I'm not sure exactly how deep, but it's not very. (I had a mount on the corner of the house when I was with Dish; when I switched to DirecTV I had to move down to the ground because a neighbor's tree interfered with line-of-sight to the DirecTV satellite.)
In the current dispute my sympathies lie at least theoretically with Dish Network. Dish/DirecTV/Cable companies are not blameless in these disputes... but we can't expect them to just cough up whatever the channels ask for. (As I understand it, the dispute it not solely about price, but also about Viacom wanted to tie carriage of their local channels to some extra "cable" channels that Dish isn't interested in carrying.)
LJ, if you switch to DirecTV, get one of the Tivo-ized receivers. You won't regret it. (Well, until your wife and kids have filled the damn thing up leaving you with 45 minutes to record whatever you want to watch. But I'm sure you can deal with that.)