I had Direct tv, but they couldn't get a good southern sight mounting the dish on my house because of all the trees I have.
So the brilliant installer mounted the dish on a piece of 1x4 mounted to my fence !!!
( I wasn't home when he installed it)
When it worked (no wind or weather problems) it was awesome,
but that wasn't too often. and I had it shut off,but still have the dish mounted though.
The amount of channels was quite overwhelming also, plus a lot of channels I don't want my kids watching.
I may take down some fence (it needs some repair anyway) early spring before they start to but, and drop a few trees and give the dish another try, but this time the dish will me mounted to the house !