Fixing satellite dish to weatherboard

[timcunnell]

Hello - I live in a weatherboard house, with only brickwork at the base to approx 3ft.
When the Sky engineer visited to install my dish he advised that he was only allowed to attach the dish to brickwork - so my dish is currently installed at ground level, which sucks.
I want to move my dish and bolt it to the house higher up, but I'm not sure about attaching it to the weatherboard. Loads of people in my street have their dishes attached to weatherboard so it mush be do-able.
I acosted a free-lanch satellite engineer in the street the other day and asked him, but he frankly didn't seem to know anything!
Any advice or comments from anyone who has achieved this would be much appreciated!
Thanks!

 

[big-all]

assuming its at least 12mm timber and if its a 3 point fixing make shure the top single fixing is on a supporting timber [denoted by lines of nails]

if the fixings are close together you may need a 12-18mm backing board secured between two timbers