Dish Mounting Options

2oldman wrote:

hershey wrote:
Stick the pipe into the ground about 8 to 10" and mount the dish. It really stores very easily.

Uh huh. Sounds pretty simple to me, if I happen to have a backhoe!

I don't know what kind of ground you camp in, but in many places I can barely drive a spike into the ground. And I'm sure that works really well in a paved CG space.

Thanks, I almost choked in my drink!!

Built a mount this weekend out of PVC pipe. Its 20" x 32" and sits flat on the ground. I can put on top of the RV, picnic table, etc and it folds down to 4" flat to store in basement minus the dish of course. If I need weight on the stand I ad a 20 lb bag of sand. Cheap and easy.

hershey wrote:
Stick the pipe into the ground about 8 to 10" and mount the dish. It really stores very easily.

Uh huh. Sounds pretty simple to me, if I happen to have a backhoe!

I don't know what kind of ground you camp in, but in many places I can barely drive a spike into the ground. And I'm sure that works really well in a paved CG space.

Why in the world do people carry around a huge tripod for something soooo simple. Go to a muffler shop and get a piece of exhaust pipe about 2' long the size to fit into the dish. Stick the pipe into the ground about 8 to 10" and mount the dish. It really stores very easily.

2oldman wrote:

nomad297 wrote:
There's only one place you should be looking: www.tv4rv.com

Yes, do this.

Forget those chintzy tripods and that other thing. You need a real sturdy tripod securely anchored to the ground.

Thanks. I like the HD tripod they have...I almost wished I could mount it off the bumper, but that would only work for the one site we will be in....

Interesting though, all of the sites I googled and searched, that site never came up. I kept getting some Oasis site and some other....

Cale

I mounted the mast to a piece of plywood. If one end is low, put a little sand, rocks, dirt, stick, whatever to level. If it gets windy, put some sand, rocks, dirt, wood, whatever to hold it down.

We bought a square wooden planter holder (from Lowe's garden section), put a landscaping cement block inside, set it on a table and bungee our tailgater to it ... so far no winds we have encountered have bothered it .

I know you said Dish, but this may give you some ideas on how to secure it.

Have seen various set-ups both with dish & tailgater-type ...

I use a 3/4-inch plywood base, maybe 36" square or thereabouts (it fits in one of my trailer's storage ports).

To this base, I installed bolts with wingnuts that fit the legs of my foldable Wineguard(?) satellite antenna I bought from Camping World a few years ago.

To set up for TV viewing, I place the plywood base on the ground, install the antenna on the plywood base via the bolts, and aim the antenna. When it's dialed-in, I'm usually set for the stay. If the wind is blowing really hard, I use four metal tent stakes through four corner holes in the plywood base to assure it all stays in place.

Being as close to the ground as possible, the antenna is usually not bothered by wind in any meaningful way. About the only thing that bothers it is the errant dog looking for a fire hydrant.

nomad297 wrote:
There's only one place you should be looking: www.tv4rv.com

Yes, do this.

Forget those chintzy tripods and that other thing. You need a real sturdy tripod securely anchored to the ground.

There's only one place you should be looking:

www.tv4rv.com

Their stuff is awesome.

Bruce