King Dome dish.
I was given a King Dome model 9762-30 standard def. satellite system from someone that upgraded to HD. Can I get some pros and cons from the forum before I decide to replace my old outdated Daytron? ...
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I had one and what a POS... traded it in on a portable dish. Difficult to set up, did not work well in motion and the fatal flaw is the rotating coax connection in the center of the dish. It stopped working before the warranty ran out BUT KingDome would not send me a new one. CW finally did pay for it ($100+) and I replaced it.
A year later it would lock on the wrong SAT and stop looking. KDome wanted $400 for a new controller (told them it would be a cold day when I put $400 into their POS) BUT by changing regions I could get it to start searching and then it might find the right one. If not, then change regions again...... Or go up on the roof, take the dome off and manually find the SAT which was usually faster.
Last summer in the middle of a trip the rotating coax connector crapped out again so I drilled a hole in the center of the dome bypassing connector but once a week I'd have to go on the roof and untwist the coax. At the FMCA rally in OR last summer I got them to give me $200 trade in. Never so happy to get rid of something. GOOD LUCK, YOU'LL NEED IT. Did I mention it was a piece of SxxT!
A year later it would lock on the wrong SAT and stop looking. KDome wanted $400 for a new controller (told them it would be a cold day when I put $400 into their POS) BUT by changing regions I could get it to start searching and then it might find the right one. If not, then change regions again...... Or go up on the roof, take the dome off and manually find the SAT which was usually faster.
Last summer in the middle of a trip the rotating coax connector crapped out again so I drilled a hole in the center of the dome bypassing connector but once a week I'd have to go on the roof and untwist the coax. At the FMCA rally in OR last summer I got them to give me $200 trade in. Never so happy to get rid of something. GOOD LUCK, YOU'LL NEED IT. Did I mention it was a piece of SxxT!
