RV sat dish?

[Max Power]

Satellite signal meters defately make life easier. Once you get used to them you can align a dish in 1 minute.

 

[Puddle Pirate]

I haven't got around to putting together a receiver dish for my trailer yet. (Yep JV I lied to you... )

I'm going to throw one of my receivers in the rig before I leave, and I figure I'll find a dish somewhere along the way if I get desperate for non-OTA TV. Provided I don't find one on the side of the road somewhere on I-40... They're actually amusingly common road debris... There's a ham radio flea market out in Livermore, Ca where I can usually pick up stuff like this on the cheap. I'll be prowling for an old DirecHDTV receiver while I'm out there anyway.

But I've never had to align a dish. I helped mhardin fail at it once (too many trees) several months back, but haven't had the pleasure myself yet. I've been assuming it's something a geologist/amateur telescope maker/astronomer/computer geek can figure out in short order. Does anyone have a list of Longitude/RA's for DirecTV?

Aiming the dish is not as much of a problem as being able to move your dish around for best sat view. I made THIS SAT BASE in order to get the tripod level. Now, if I need to, I can put the whole shebang up on the roof without the possibility of tearing up the roof. Works very well on ground that is not even close to level.

 

[rvassar]

Aiming the dish is not as much of a problem as being able to move your dish around for best sat view. I made THIS SAT BASE in order to get the tripod level. Now, if I need to, I can put the whole shebang up on the roof without the possibility of tearing up the roof. Works very well on ground that is not even close to level.

Chief, that is a nice piece of work.

Almost exactly what I was thinking of, but I was going to use PVC.

 

[CHPMustang]

Aiming the dish is not as much of a problem as being able to move your dish around for best sat view. I made THIS SAT BASE in order to get the tripod level. Now, if I need to, I can put the whole shebang up on the roof without the possibility of tearing up the roof. Works very well on ground that is not even close to level.

Indeed excellent work!