re: Starlink

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My mom lives far in the country with pine trees all about her house. I downloaded the app to check it out but around 88% is the clearest reception I could get.

Is that enough?

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Man, you'll more than likely have hiccups. If you can get some type of tower, or power pole (how mine's mounted), you can mount Dishy up top and more than likely be good to go. Then again, I don't know your surroundings where you're putting it.

Just so you know how I mounted mine.....I mounted Dishy on an old Dish Network satellite pole. I bought the pipe adapter off Starlink's website and put it right on top of the Dish Network pole, and then the Dishy clicks in and mounts to the pipe adapter.

Now for getting it up there....I'm just a knuckle dragger baw, so I didn't have anything fancy. I used my tractor with an extension ladder to get roughly 1/2 way up the power pole. I used some climbing sticks off one of my loc on deer stands to traverse the remainder of the pole. I put on my tree climbing vest and I also have a lineman's belt that I made a few years back that I clipped to my climbing vest. The lineman's belt is 100% essential and it'll allow you to be safe and get to a comfortable working position. You'll need it because you'll need both hands when you're drilling, and mounting everything. I hate the damn hell out of heights, but felt completely safe with my setup. Falling 30 ft. and breaking stuff or dying isn't my idea of a good time.

If you need me to send you a link on how to make the lineman's belt, let me know. I'll have to dig around until I find it.

That's a pic of my obstruction map below....I have one enormous pine tree to the left of Dishy that obstructs me a little, but I see no reason to cut it down because I stream everything with zero hiccups. It's also no big deal to cut down a tree with a tractor, for me, because I'll use my chainsaw and the tractor's bucket to make the tree fall where I want it to go.