Satellite Antennas - Old Fashioned Dish
I am looking to buy equipment to receive satellite broadcasts via Dish network. We would only use it 3-4 times a year so I am leaning towards the old fashioned dish vs a portable unit. Specifically a ...
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You should be able to locate a portable dish from lots of different sources... I use one here...
Something like this one
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You will want to find one with the head for the SAT SERVICE you are signed up with... Also I would get a two port head so you can run RG cables to both your Living room and Bedroom HDTV setups. This will allow you to watch separate TV channels at the two locations.
I use to bring SAT RCVRS from the house and this worked out great for me to pick up standard SAT TV signals from DIRECTV. I would connect the SAT RCVRS VIDEO OUTPUTs to my VID1 AUX port on the HDTVs. This way we can use the TV remote to select either SAT TV or CABLE/OTA TV.
However when the Natl Broadcast went to digital mode a few years ago I started using my BATWING antenna to pick up the local towns HDTV signals which is a much better TV signal being full blown High Def HDTV.
Stopped bring along my SAT TV items from home after that. We usually get several HDTV signal from the local towns just about everywhere we go using the BATWING antenna pointed at the local towns.
Roy Ken
Something like this one
google image
You will want to find one with the head for the SAT SERVICE you are signed up with... Also I would get a two port head so you can run RG cables to both your Living room and Bedroom HDTV setups. This will allow you to watch separate TV channels at the two locations.
I use to bring SAT RCVRS from the house and this worked out great for me to pick up standard SAT TV signals from DIRECTV. I would connect the SAT RCVRS VIDEO OUTPUTs to my VID1 AUX port on the HDTVs. This way we can use the TV remote to select either SAT TV or CABLE/OTA TV.
However when the Natl Broadcast went to digital mode a few years ago I started using my BATWING antenna to pick up the local towns HDTV signals which is a much better TV signal being full blown High Def HDTV.
Stopped bring along my SAT TV items from home after that. We usually get several HDTV signal from the local towns just about everywhere we go using the BATWING antenna pointed at the local towns.
Roy Ken
