A Word To The Do-It-Yourselfer - Hughes DW 3000 One-Way Installation Manual

A WORD TO THE DO-IT-YOURSELFER

We recommend you ask a professional satellite installer to mount your satellite dish and run your cables, but we recognize that
some people will elect to do their own installation. If you are one of these people, or if you are undecided about whether or not to
perform your own installation, please consider the following.
• Mounting the satellite dish to a concrete or masonry foundation, exposed deck timber, or metal pole are the best options for the
homeowner because you can see that the fasteners are properly installed.
• Mounting the satellite dish to the house roof is a desirable mounting method only if you are positive that you can drill the holes for
lag screws within 1/16-inch of the center of the rafters or trusses. This requires special tools and expertise. If you must mount to a
roof, pick a location where the roof is unfinished and accessible from the inside so that you can reinforce it if necessary and assure
yourself that the fasteners penetrated the rafters or trusses without splintering them.
• Do not depend on consumer quality stud finders to locate rafters underneath asphalt shingles because they may give false positive
readings or miss rafters entirely.
• Given a choice, it is always best not to penetrate a roof.
• If a lag screw misses the rafter or truss but is securely fastened in the sheathing, the satellite dish could pull the lag screws out of
the sheathing or peel the sheathing away from the rafter or truss during high wind loads.
• If you plan to upgrade to a Two-Way System, which requires that the satellite dish be installed by a professional installer, we sug-
gest you review the copy of its satellite dish installation manual, HNS part number 1031362-0201, on your software installation
CD. The manual can help you understand the Two-Way System installation requirements.
• When cabling, if there is even a remote possibility that you will upgrade to either a DIRECTV
extra cables to save yourself future effort.
• If you plan to or think you may upgrade to a Two-Way System, be sure to install your base plate so that its center is 5 feet above
ground.
• Best grounding results are achieved with quad shielded RG6 coaxial cable with a shield resistance of less than 0.6 ohms per 100
feet.
• If you install the satellite dish yourself, you must supply a number of items. See the following table.
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