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Re:Starlink review, four months in by chrisseaton on Thursday July 22, 2021 @11:24AM (#27919963)
> It's implied that this is due to the trees obstructing a full view of the sky

Why is the antenna on the ground and not up on a tall mast?

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Re:Starlink review, four months in by JasonFruit on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:05PM (#27920550)
It certainly can be on a mast; I put mine on a (short) steel tube mast, and it's been a great improvement on service that was already a vast improvement over Hughesnet-provided satellite.
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Re:Starlink review, four months in by canucker2016 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @10:11PM (#27926491)
He mounted the dish on his roof. There are still some tall trees in the way of the dish.

Here's his YouTube video of the installation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynsCVOz7jv4

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Re:Starlink review, four months in by geerlingguy on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:19PM (#27920798)
Mine is mounted near the top of my roof's ridge. The problem is there are 8 trees (five of them more than 75') around my one-story house.
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