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Old 08-14-2014, 03:03 PM   #1
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Portable Satelite Dish.

Interested in buying a portable satellite dish. Would like some output on the different ones out there. Because this antenna on my trailer is no good, its the one you don't raise or cant turn piece of junk. Thanks
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Old 08-14-2014, 04:40 PM   #2
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I have a Winegard Carryout and a pay-as-you-go account with Dish. I like the Carryout because it is so easy to use. All you have to do is set it up level, and it will find the satellites.
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Old 08-14-2014, 06:14 PM   #3
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You want an antenna replacement,
sd sat
hd sat

portable
or top mounted
Directv or Dish
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Old 08-14-2014, 07:29 PM   #4
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There are several options out there, I use an HD direct tv dish on a 3ft tripod I bought for $30 on eBay. It gets easier every time I use it what I do is I take the round dish part off and keep it under the bed and the rest goes easily in my storage compartment. I keep 100ft of cable on an extension cord reel so I can put the dish where I can easily find a signal. I had a roof mounted dish on my previous camper and if there are trees and it blocks your signal you are pretty much out of luck so the flexibility of being able to move 100ft in any direction is nice. I picked my dish up for free from a direct tv installer doing an instal down the street from my house it was an older model hd dish but it works great. Then I just take an extra box from my house when we go camping.
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Old 08-14-2014, 08:02 PM   #5
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I have the Dish network for some years. I have a extra dish on a tri-pod and it works great. I have the HD TV's at home but have an older ant that can pick up all the SD sats. I see lots of folks that have the tailgaters and seem easy to set up ... but they cost some $$$$.
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We have the dish, and use the tailgater cube. Works well for me
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I have dish and I have a tailgator that you set out and in 10 min you have TV.
I have seen a dish that will run 2 TV's. All on dish network. And you can pay by the month. Its probably the most simple.
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Old 08-15-2014, 06:08 PM   #8
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We have dish network service at home, and wanted to be able to take it to our campsite. We have a seasonal site, but we've moved around the campground from year to year and have had different things work at different places. We started last year with a Dish Tailgater. Worked great when we had a completely clear view of the sky toward the 118, 119, 129 orbitals, also known as the western arc. Worked great this spring until UH-OH! The leaves came on the trees and no more signal!!

After doing intensive research (tech geek style) I found that our best option is a traditional dish mounted on a tripod. I ended up purchasing on Amazon for under $100 including a sat. finder. I was able to get a LNB that picked up the eastern arc (61.5, 72, 77). Great 'view' of those orbitals from this site. If in the future we find we need the other orbitals, I can purchase an LNB, change it out and keep on keepin' on.

The traditional dish takes a little time to get tuned in, but once you do it a time or two it's pretty easy. And it gives you, by far, the best signal.
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Old 08-16-2014, 07:05 AM   #9
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A neighbor of ours in Florida had the Tailgaiter and we were very impressed with it. Are there any Canadians out there who use the U.S. satellite services in Canada? If so, any experiences to share? We currently use the Canadian satellite service by Shaw, but in a few years we will lose our Shaw signal in Florida (when the current satellite is decommissioned), so we will be looking at alternatives, including U.S. satellite service.
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Old 08-16-2014, 09:20 AM   #10
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I was too impatient to set up the portable hd directv equipment
if I can't use our roof top mounted wineguard that takes one button push to setup, I'll either use the OTA antenna or park cable...

but typically the tv is rarely used except for sports and weather...
and we always have our tablets or smartphones with us that can do that too
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Old 08-16-2014, 12:11 PM   #11
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We have the Winegard carryout portable auto satellite and we use Direct TV. Works great and with Direct we don't pay anything extra we just take a box from home.
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When you take a box from home how do you wire it up? There is no additional fee either. Correct?
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Tim when we had Direct, I just took the box out of the bedroom, and brought it. In my 2008 unit there are out lets for both cable and Sat connections. When Janet switched to Dish Thier box is a cpmbo box that feeds all of the Tv's in the house (2). I bought another receiver through Amazon, and Dish charges us 5.00 a month extra
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I do agree that if you are going to be staying in one place the full size dish is the way to go.
But if you are moving alot or you are in a place where there are alot of trees the tailgator gives you more options.

I have put over 100ft of cable on to move it or around or put on top of one of my slides if there are trees or other peoples rigs close by blocking the signal.
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Old 08-17-2014, 10:31 AM   #15
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Tim.... The box hooks up easy, you just screw the cable from the satellite to the box and use those AV cables with the red yellow and white ends to go from the box to the tv and no we do not pay anything extra to do this.
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Like others have said ... I just take the box from home and hook it up via the sat connections to the dish and works great. I have noticed with Dish that if I am more than 250 miles from home I do not get the local network channels but there is so much else to watch I never been without. Now in a heavy forest area you will have to point between trees and sometimes might only get one of the three sats and that will limit your viewing but over all it is easy to hook up and point.
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You really just need to decide how much you want to spend. You can spend under $100.00 and get the full size HD or SD dish or spend over $1,000 and get the small portable ones. Both have their advantages and disadvantages I personally never set up my dish if I am staying less than 2 days or i will if there is a sporting event I want to watch. It can be difficult to find signals at times but most of the time it will take 20 minutes to set up the dish and find a signal.
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Old 08-17-2014, 07:25 PM   #18
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You can buy a tailgator and box for $449 now. and with dish network you can pay by the month with no contract.
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