Dutch_12078 wrote:
Which portable manually aimed dish you can use depends on which receiver you have. Dish and DTV multi-satellite, multi-LNB dishes are not interchangeable. As far as I know, all of the Dish and DTV receivers have a signal strength display of some sort for use in aiming, but I prefer using a separate meter right at the dish for that. My setup time for is usually less than 15 minutes, including setting up, anchoring, and leveling the tripod. But then I have had lots of practice, since we move around a lot. Heavily treed sites can be a challenge to find a usable "hole", but so far we've never had a site where I couldn't get a signal from one of the two Dish satellite arcs. There are a number of helpful dish aiming videos on YouTube.
Its just to much effort and cost to justify two weeks of use. I'll stick to rented and saved DVD movies etc.
