I agree with Rob and use the tripod. I have watched the motor homes move sites to lock on. my buddy got the potable model with a used rv he bought the other day. he likes it because he can move the dish and not the camper if he has too.
Over the last few months of travel, we met a few people that could not use there roof mounted dish's due to trees in the way. We have a tailgater and have not encountered any problems yet.
Don
Same here with using a portable satellite dish setup. Mine has two heads on it so I can run a RG cable to to the front room SAT RCVR and to the Bedroom area SAT RCVR receiver. Then I run a RGB cable from SAt RECEIVER and connect to the VIZIO TV video input. All i do to watch SAT TV in grab the remote and switch to VIDEO 1. I can still use the camp ground CABLE SETUP when I select TV on the VIZIO TV.
I never had any luck trying to use the SATELLITE INPUT on my trailers. Never worked. It has to do with the SAT RCVR has to send 12VDC to the dish to operate the SAT DISH HEAD I guess. I never wanted to modify the regular trailer wiring to make it work so figured i would just run my own RG cables and come into the trailer thru the storage bay area. Worked out pretty good for us. Was easy to bring along a couple of SAT RCVRS form home. Never had any trouble with DIRECTV doing this. I would lose my LOCAL STATIONs however when I got outside my ZIP CODE area. Sometimes my SAT RCVR would lose their setups so I had to call DIRECTV to reactivate it. I always carried my account information. Actually had it taped to the case of one of the SAT RCVRS.
Now they have all the fancy stuff with SWM and high def SAT pictures so I have no idea how all that works.
Now that the NATIONAL BROADCAST is transmitting high def full screen HDTV from the local town we sort of stopped bringing out the SAT TV stuff. We get 6-36 full HDTV stations from the local towns using out OTA Antenna setup. If we really want to watch something on CABLE when out in the woods we will downstream it on the internet. Even when we are at camp ground with cable hookup its alot better watching the local towns HDTV then watching the non high def cable hookup at the camp ground. Just use it to watch cable channels in NON HIGH DEF mode...
My SAT TV story.
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I actually use both. I have the wiring set up that I can easily switch to the free standing dish if needed, but I've only encountered that about 10% of the time. It just makes it a little nicer if I don't have to set it up especially on short stays or in the rain. When I make my reservations I ask for a sat friendly site.
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