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Satellite Dish - opinions sought
Yahoo Message Number: 2388
I'm glad to see satt-tv discussion here - I need to decide what to add to my ordered 26.5 MB.

rjld614 -- will you pls tell me how to compare the mounted satt dish vs a portable. I'll bet a mounted dish will get hidden in trees sometimes. But the tradeoff is portable ONLY.

How would you feel about portable satt and no mounted dish? Is the portable a big pain, so you only use it with extreme bother? Do you strongly prefer one over the other?

Would it make sense to have a standard broadcast antenna supplemented with a portable dish?

Experience and opinions will help me make my mind about my May delivery.....

Thx John
Satellite Dish - opinions sought
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Yahoo Message Number: 2392
The portable dish takes more time to set up and sometimes it takes 2 people unless you get a SONY. The SONY has an indicator light to tell you when you are locked on. I will have both. The stationary one will be used when it is clear to get the sat. and the portable one when I need to get out from under a tree. I have a 75' cable and use that little light. It blinks rapidly when locked on the sat.
The portable dish is not expensive. $65 or so.
Satellite Dish - opinions sought
Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 2394
I let Ed Newton talk me out of the satalite dish (would be blocked by trees). So I went with the portable only and now find it to be a pain most of the time.
Yes, sometimes it would be blocked (so that the extra lightweight portable for those times).

When stopping for one night I don't bother with the portable and wish that I had the roof mounted one.

Not sure though if you still get the broadcast antenna with the roof mounted satalite. Maybe someone could answer that.

Glenn
 
Satellite Dish - opinions sought
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Yahoo Message Number: 2397
I'm slightly regreting not going for the factory installed satellite dish. Ed didn't talk me out of it, motorhome owners talked me out of it. I agree with what you are saying. It would be nice to get satellite during a short stop, kind of a stealth camping factor.

Lazy Daze told me that the cable connection is satellite dish compatible. I think the coax has to be RG-6, so that is good. I'll have a better opinion after I buy and set up a portable system and use it for awhile.