Satellite provider recommendation 4 FT

The major advantage of a portable dish of course, is the aiming flexibility on sites with trees. Our tripod mounted Dish 1000.4 dish for instance will work fine connected to the 200 feet of coax we carry if needed. We also have the option of using either the Dish eastern or western arc satellites, giving us even more flexibility. To date, we have never been on a site where we couldn't get satellite service from one arc or the other. A few weeks ago, our only option was the eastern arc birds, and where we are now, the western arc birds are readily accessible from our site, while the eastern arc birds would require rolling out a bunch of wire. Another advantage of the tripod mounted dish over the domes is the size of the dish. We had a fairly heavy rainstorm most of yesterday afternoon, and while the 8" dish Tailgater folks were crying about the long loss of signal, our nominally 24" dia. dish never missed a beat. The larger dish Winegard domes did better, but still had some loss judging by the stories we heard at breakfast this morning. We do see storm signal loss on occasion, but rarely for more than a few minutes. The roof mounted Winegard Trav'ler dishes, when they have a good view, are nearly as large as our dish and also usually fare pretty well in storms. Unfortunately, the Trav'ler Dish version is only capable of automatically finding the western arc sats, with some manual aiming capability for just one of the eastern arc sats I believe.