New to caravanning and looking at buying a tripod satellite system so we can use our sky box. Does anyone have any views on which is the best, and how easy are they to use? Any info would be great, thanks.
It saves something which looks like Jodderell Bank outside your caravan and is much more stable, presents a much lower target to wind, is easier to site, lighter to carry and is probably cheaper.
We recently bought a 66cm Maxview dish and tripod for our latest trip to France. The smaller dishes which you can get from Lidl and Aldi sometime will be ok in the UK but not in Europe.
We got the dish, cable, finder (x4) and receiver for £60 on eBay. Priced it last week at around £250 new.
Setup can be a little fiddly but a bit of patience and an idea which direction to point the dish and you'll be fine. You can get free dish alignment apps for smart phones and there is plenty of info on line about aligning your dish.
And then attach a normal 45cm sky dish, being on the pole approx 3ft high from the ground, this ensures stability and no chance of it coming down on the caravan.
if you regularly use satellite on the move, these are a great tool to use, it can even be used as a freeview receiver too as it comes with audio and video lead to connect to normal tv;
be wary if using in southern spain as bbc channels can only be recieved with dishes of 2.4mtr diameter and poss more channels will follow suit soon too.
And then attach a normal 45cm sky dish, being on the pole approx 3ft high from the ground, this ensures stability and no chance of it coming down on the caravan.
Quote: Originally posted by Vin Blanc on 29/8/2013
Quote: Originally posted by firwood on 28/8/2013I have attached a pole side by side to the leg of our jockey wheel using
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And then attach a normal 45cm sky dish, being on the pole approx 3ft high from the ground, this ensures stability and no chance of it coming down on the caravan.
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