Satellite

[Shadow Catcher]

While we will not use it often I am planning on putting in the wiring to use a satellite dish and receiver. I have a receiver which will be used in the house as well as the tear that I picked up used for 25$ and the antenna new is 50$. Since we are already Dish customers taking the receiver on the road should not be a big deal, I hope. I will be mounting it to the roof of the tear with suction cups, (not an original idea) or a tripod.

Have any of you done this? Any advice?

[bobhenry]

When we camped with you at the Fort Wayne gathering you might have noticed Jeff the grey cargo trailer had one of our red neck antennas hooked up to his converter box and tv. The antenna had a nice stand and he tethers it with a light spring attached to the stand and drives a tent peg in the ground and attaches the spring to it to secure the stand. I laughed about his "fancy Christmas tree stand" until he explained that it picks up much better and gets many more channels when it is moved away from the heavy tree growth and placed in a clearing. Seems like a good reason to have a stand and a long coax cable!

[TPMcGinty]

How about this one?

http://www.bbrv.dreamstation.com/sat.html

It looks easy to build.

[Aaron Coffee]

When My brother used to drive over the road, he had a dish mounted on a pole, when he got to a truckstop he would just bunjee cord the pole to one of the smoke stacks. Have thought of doing the same on the TD, and bunjee it to the tongue jack, but then I would rather just sit and do nothing than watch TV when camping. Not meaning to bust anyone's chops, to each his/her own.

[Shadow Catcher]

Along that line I liked www.modmyrv.com/2009/04/28/rv-satellite-dish-mount
This with a couple of stakes could go for ground deployment and some sort of tripod arrangement. The problem is KISS, parts left out don't go wrong.
I agree if the weather is at all endurable we will sit out and if I could not do this so inexpensively I would not

[bdosborn]

How about this one?

http://www.bbrv.dreamstation.com/sat.html

It looks easy to build.

That's the one that I built, you can just see it to on the right side of this picture:



The mount works well, I never had to go out and re-adjust the dish even when the wind was blowing pretty good. I definitely knew when someone walked in front of it though as the signal went away until they moved. Get a cheap signal strength meter off eBay to help with aiming the dish, it makes it go a lot faster.

I was surprised to find that I just wasn't into watching TV when we were camping. I'll still watch a DVD before bed but I quit setting up the dish after a couple of trips.
Bruce