We read it in middle school a long time ago. It is about a group of people who escaped from the alien "Tripods" that walked around in giant 3-legged machines and the people are trying to find shelter or something. The tripods know where they are constantly because of metal-plated tracking...
I currently have a direct tv dish mounted on my apartment balcony rail and want to upgrade to HD. The new HD dish is almost twice the size and weight and will not stay connected to the rail my current dish is on and is limited in it's direction, meaning facing the satellites(direct tv...