satellite tv
Around where I live they have tons of direct tv dishes that are not being used I'm thinking of getting dish network pay as you go package and need to find satellite dish and reciever I know from what ...
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I got one of these portable dish for my HOME DIRECTV acct. This has a compass on it and also AZ marks etc. Being flat on the bottom it sit on my truck folding hard plastic bed cover just fine. being on my truck always reminded me to store the dish before leaving the area.
This one came with a two port head for DIRECTV.
AS you can see you can wind up a good couple hundred feet of RG6 antenna cable. It also mounts to to almost anything. It also folds up for storage while in route.
I also got one of these TONE meters to help me loocate the satellite...
I would run one RG cable port to the living room TV area and the second RG cable port to the bedroom area. Here I would hookup to a SAT RCVR I brought along with me from home.
The I would hook the VIDEO OUTPUT cables of the SAT RCVR to the VIDEO INPUTS on my VIZIO 22-INCH HDTV.
Now I can watch SAT TV or CABLE/OTA TV by using the TV remotes.
Did this for a few years and then when the NATL BROADCAST TV came out with their digital HDTV signals from the local town I quit bringing along my SAT TV STUFF.
The OTA NATL BROADCAST TV from the local towns is high def TV mode and much better on the eyes than the standard satellite was..
Roy Ken
This one came with a two port head for DIRECTV.
AS you can see you can wind up a good couple hundred feet of RG6 antenna cable. It also mounts to to almost anything. It also folds up for storage while in route.
I also got one of these TONE meters to help me loocate the satellite...
I would run one RG cable port to the living room TV area and the second RG cable port to the bedroom area. Here I would hookup to a SAT RCVR I brought along with me from home.
The I would hook the VIDEO OUTPUT cables of the SAT RCVR to the VIDEO INPUTS on my VIZIO 22-INCH HDTV.
Now I can watch SAT TV or CABLE/OTA TV by using the TV remotes.
Did this for a few years and then when the NATL BROADCAST TV came out with their digital HDTV signals from the local town I quit bringing along my SAT TV STUFF.
The OTA NATL BROADCAST TV from the local towns is high def TV mode and much better on the eyes than the standard satellite was..
Roy Ken
