<span class="highlight">Satellite</span> <span class="highlight">tv</span>

Hi
I have a SatPlus dish and tridod. The dish has a removable arm for the lnb.
My dish travels on a bracket in front of the gas bottles on the A-bar, and the removable arm and cable loose in the van or cruiser and the tripod in a pvc tube under the van. I personally wouldn't have a dish mouted to the van, as the van location when camped, quite often does not give clear view to the satelite due to trees etc. We have three lengths of coax cable, 3m, 6m and 10m, depending on the length required to get the dish to see a clear view of the satellite. Quite often we have used all three together, to get the dish to a location of clear satellite view.
Cheers
Neil

Hi, we had one on a tripod and thought it was a bit cumbersone as it was another thing to store. We made some mods and now have the dish fixed on the back of the van, but it can also be used on the front using the A frame.

On the rear - we welded a small piece of 55mm square tube to the spare wheel carrier, then went to an exhaust place and purchased around 6 feet of 50mm exhaust pipe which they bent (with an S bend) according to our requirements. The 50mm exhaust pipe suits the brackets on our sat dish. So the dish is attached to the exhaust pipe which slides through the square tubing and is held on with two screws and wing nuts. We just turn the dish around to the appropriate direction if the signal comes from the rear. For travelling, the dish lives on the rear of the van.

However, for signal which comes from the front - we remove the dish and the exhaust pipe from the rear, carry it around to the A Frame and slide it in to where the jockey wheel mount is and leave it there and just turn the dish in the appropriate direction. We don't use the jockey wheel anymore as we have a trailamate jack.

If photos would help what I've tried to explain please let me know.

You need a tripod as fixing it to the van will limit your coverage in a lot of situations - trees, other vans etc.
I removed the spare tyre cover at the rear of the caravan.
To the spare I mounted a little plate with four 1/4 studs to match the disk.
The TV disk is now the spare wheel cover.
I chuck the tripod in the boot.

Agree with the tripod users.

At 80 mile beach we had to put the dish at the far end of the site behind us to get a clear view of the satellite.

Needed all of our 20 metres of cable.

Spent an hour in front of the van but trees stopped the signal.

At Tennant Creek a flash mothome with an autotune dish on the roof came in and the guy came over and said how did I get a signal and he couldnt.

What did he need to do.

I suggested a chainsaw may help as he was in the middle of a row of trees.

We just moved the tripod out the end of the row and was fine.

Also the guy behind us couldnt get a signal with his 600mm dish yet our 790 picked it up anywhere.