GL: Direct TV

[fred]

Tom,

I have DirecTV on my boat and love it.  I have the dish sitting on a tripod
on the "back porch" of the boat.  It's loosely bolted together so I can
adjust it easily, and I have a rope draped on the arm to steady it after
it's adjusted and also to prevent it from blowing over in a storm.
The tripod is not bolted to the deck.

The tripod was provided by the dish installer, it comes with a 10 foot
section of electrical conduit which was cut down to a short stump.  When I
originally ordered the set, they put it together in my back yard at home on
that tripod, and I cut the pipe and moved it to the boat later on.

Occasionally I stick a pencil under one leg to adjust the up-down angle,
but that's usually not necessary.

It generally takes me a minute or so to get it set up.

Note in the "setup" section of the receiver there is a indicator showing
percentage of signal received.  If you have that visible when you turn the
dish, you'll have it done in 30 seconds flat.

While swinging at anchor there is no chance of using it, though I plan to
experiment using 2 small anchors at the back of the boat in addition to the
main anchor out front.


Fred W.
Tug 44
http://www.tug44.org/



At 02:14 PM 10/13/06 +0000, you wrote:
>We recently ordered a Direct TV service for our 25 foot Bayliner 2560
>boat. We have not even departed for our trip yet and have found locating
>the satellite signal when we move the dish to be extremely challenging.
>My questions to those who have the system is: How do you have the dish
>set up on your boat?Is it a permanent pole mount or can we do something
>smaller and portable?Are you able to receive service in a calm anchorage
>or just when placing on the marina dock?Are there any tricks to locating
>the satellites easier?Any other advice is appreciated, we are beginning
>to think it just won't work for the boat.Thanks, Tom
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