DISH satelite TV
I recently switched my home service from Direct TV to DISH. In the past I used a winegard MP1 carryout and a SD receiver from home to get satellite while camping. It was a hassle to reconfigure the re...
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No automatic dish is going to help you in forested areas if the sats are block. I have the X2 and it's great. It gives me the option to use the eastern arc when something blocks the western arc.
In forested areas a tripod and a manual dish is often the only option. At times I've had to shoot the signal through a small hole in tree cover and often it's a mater of moving the dish a foot or two just to clear a branch.
In that case I use my cellphone to get a general area of the sats, then use an Align a site to find a hole in the tree cover and align manually.
BTW, the X2 has a bigger dish for easier acquiring of sats and help in heavy rains.
In forested areas a tripod and a manual dish is often the only option. At times I've had to shoot the signal through a small hole in tree cover and often it's a mater of moving the dish a foot or two just to clear a branch.
In that case I use my cellphone to get a general area of the sats, then use an Align a site to find a hole in the tree cover and align manually.
BTW, the X2 has a bigger dish for easier acquiring of sats and help in heavy rains.
