thes e"professional installers" are mad men. Theyre on some crazy high
peaks for no reason


On Mon, Jul 6, 2026 at 10:03 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:

> In the fixed wireless business, we’ve all tended to ignore rules about
> fall protection, with installers up on roofs without 100% tie off.  Quite
> awhile ago, many sat TV installers edicted that all roof installs must be
> done from the ladder, which is often possible if you’re shooting at the
> sky.  No going up on the roof.  (Or maybe don’t tell the boss if you do?)
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> The theory was that with Starlink you’d just set it up on your deck, no
> ladder required.  But most of the installs I see are at the peak of the
> roof, not sure how many of them can be done while standing on a ladder.
> And it’s hard to tell how many were DIY installs vs “professional
> installation”.
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> Now that DISH is doing the installs for Starlink, and given they were the
> ones telling installers not to go up on the roof, I wonder if that’s how
> they’re doing Starlink installs as well.  J-arm on the soffit seems to be a
> popular mounting method.
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