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[Closed] any way to improve freesat reception through trees?

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My neighbour has selfishly located some great big oak trees directly in line with where our satellite dish needs to point to receive FreeSat HD.

Short of sneaking across with a chainsaw, is there anything that can be done to boost reception? E.g. an amplifier or a larger dish? Or could the dish be mounted on the chimney?


 
Posted : 03/09/2015 8:40 am
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Mount the dish on one of their trees!!


 
Posted : 03/09/2015 9:00 am
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What you need there is a pole and some longer wire.


 
Posted : 03/09/2015 9:12 am
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Copper nails?


 
Posted : 03/09/2015 9:19 am
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Freeview instead?


 
Posted : 03/09/2015 9:32 am
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You need to move the dish.

A bigger dish might work short term but as the trees grow and get denser it'll fail again.


 
Posted : 03/09/2015 11:19 am

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