SATELLITES DISHES AND INTERNET CONNECTION
We will be fulltime RV'ers by the end of this year and are looking into satellite dishes and internet connection for our 5th wheel. We know we won't need service for t.v. while on the move because we...
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I agree that satellite internet is not the easiest route.
As for TV reception, Dish will lease its 211 receiver for 7 or $8 a month which you attach to a $350 Tailgater (you purchase it from a retailer) with the 50' of included RG6 coax. Set it on the ground on the south side, and in a few minutes you have all the HD and SD stations included in whatever DISH package you select. The Tailgater is powered by the coax. If you want the local stations for the area in which you are parked, you call DISH, give them an address of your location, and in a few minutes you have the locals. No charge.
I run the coax directly into our trailer and leave it hooked up to the 211, so all I have to do is take the Tailgater outside and attach the coax. That take less than five minutes, unless the guy next to me comes over and starts asking what that thing is.
In our case, when we leave I bring in the Tailgater and put it and the receiver on the bed for safe travel, as the receiver sits on the shelf at the end of the bed when in use. So there is only the one coax end to monkey with each time we park or leave.
I struggled with the increasingly difficult aiming process of satellite dishes over the years and find this system neater than the microwave when it first came out.
As for TV reception, Dish will lease its 211 receiver for 7 or $8 a month which you attach to a $350 Tailgater (you purchase it from a retailer) with the 50' of included RG6 coax. Set it on the ground on the south side, and in a few minutes you have all the HD and SD stations included in whatever DISH package you select. The Tailgater is powered by the coax. If you want the local stations for the area in which you are parked, you call DISH, give them an address of your location, and in a few minutes you have the locals. No charge.
I run the coax directly into our trailer and leave it hooked up to the 211, so all I have to do is take the Tailgater outside and attach the coax. That take less than five minutes, unless the guy next to me comes over and starts asking what that thing is.
In our case, when we leave I bring in the Tailgater and put it and the receiver on the bed for safe travel, as the receiver sits on the shelf at the end of the bed when in use. So there is only the one coax end to monkey with each time we park or leave.
I struggled with the increasingly difficult aiming process of satellite dishes over the years and find this system neater than the microwave when it first came out.
