Direct tv dish storage
Have any of you come up with any unique ways of storing a dish in your rigs while traveling? I have the large oval direct dish.
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- To OP: If you can find a used DISH 1000.2(preferred) or 1000.4 I can tell you how to modify for SL3 LNB. The 1000.2 is 26" wide, small mount and much lighter compared to the large Slimline which is 32".
CentralCoastCampers wrote:
F250gal wrote:
CentralCoastCampers wrote:
I just got the new, larger dish. I seperated the arm from the dish and in the process if rigging straps to store it against the top of the front compartment of the fiver. We don't use it on every trip, so don't want to store it inside or have it take up room in the basement.
I want your old dish...the smaller one....for my trailer....
It's yours, especially since the new one I got is the one you gave me. We will drop it off this weekend. You want the tripod too?
Yes PLEASE....we have nothing right now for the trailerF250gal wrote:
CentralCoastCampers wrote:
I just got the new, larger dish. I seperated the arm from the dish and in the process if rigging straps to store it against the top of the front compartment of the fiver. We don't use it on every trip, so don't want to store it inside or have it take up room in the basement.
I want your old dish...the smaller one....for my trailer....
It's yours, especially since the new one I got is the one you gave me. We will drop it off this weekend. You want the tripod too?lonestar68 wrote:
I have been looking at using one of my extra mounts and poles and mounting it to the rear bumper of the TT so that the dish can be transported there. Hershey I like the idea of hinging the LNB arm. Have you got any pics? I would like to see your setup.
Exactly what I did except added a latch to the arm to hold in place when in use. Not sure the latch was required, just did it while modifying the arm.- I leave all of my SAT STUFF at home now since the Natl Broadcast came out ith digital TV. We get 6-36 of the local stations from the local towns just about everywhere we go here on the East side of the US using our OTA BATWING antenna. This is full blown high def HDTV and is free to the public.
If we want to watch some of the cable stations like on SAT TV we downstream them over the internet.
Mostly we watch NCIS and CSI anyway... I also love the always available LOCAL RADAR the local towns put out. Most valuable info running the roads in my off-road POPUP...
Roy Ken CentralCoastCampers wrote:
I just got the new, larger dish. I seperated the arm from the dish and in the process if rigging straps to store it against the top of the front compartment of the fiver. We don't use it on every trip, so don't want to store it inside or have it take up room in the basement.
I want your old dish...the smaller one....for my trailer....- I just got the new, larger dish. I seperated the arm from the dish and in the process if rigging straps to store it against the top of the front compartment of the fiver. We don't use it on every trip, so don't want to store it inside or have it take up room in the basement.
- I carry mine on the top bunk, but had also thought about hinging the boom like hershey did. Also thinking about a second hinge on the opposite side of the boom with the pin removed so I can use a hitch hair pin to hold it from flipping up and down in the wind.
- I have been looking at using one of my extra mounts and poles and mounting it to the rear bumper of the TT so that the dish can be transported there. Hershey I like the idea of hinging the LNB arm. Have you got any pics? I would like to see your setup.
- I placed a hinge right at the bottom of the dish on the arm. Then I sawed through the arm and the hinge now lets the arm flip up and fits inside the dish, kinda. The LNB is just stuck in the end of the arm, don't use any bolts to hold it in place. The post slips out of the dish and the whole assembly takes little space in a bay with the arm folded in.
