[HAL9000]

I rewired my house when we remodeled. I hired some guys to bring a concrete cutter and cut a trench through the slab in the living room. We put PVC pipe in the trench and refilled with more concrete. Now the cables are running under the floor.

I also installed a pole in the ground for the DirecTV dish. When a winter storm hits and the dish ices over, I can get it de-iced with a pitcher of warm water. That works a lot better than putting the dish on the roof.

[MikefromOhio]

The dish is right outside my bedroom window, so it kinda works the same for me :)

Besides, most of the storms through here are all snow, because they generally throw a bunch of ice into columbus.

They had installed a grounding block on the side of my house and it seriously looked horrible. What we did is we took the coax straight down into the ground (we installed a 2 foot L-section of PVC in the ground and ran it behind the wall in my rec room into the basement, where we then wired everything from the ground up.

Works great.