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Pompano
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WANTED - portable satellite dishes.
I've about got things ready for an extended motorhome-boondocking-fishing expedition around Baja Sur.
Most important...I have just now packed the blender. 
I need these things yet:
- a portable satellite dish and tripod, etc...for Hughes.Net internet with all attachments.
- a portable satellite dish with tripod for television (DirecTV subscription), arm with LNB, etc. Largest dish for this motorhome
application is best..say 4ft and bigger. Is 1.8meter too big? What size has worked for your RV in southern Baja? (talking DirecTV here only..I
realize Starchoice is better reception,etc.)
Anybody got any of these items for sale? Or know where I can buy them? At the moment I'm back in San Diego and have not had much luck finding
either of those dishes...YET..however, I am determined. 
I would appreciate some recent experiences/input on mobile internet and tv use from you veteran Baja RVers. 
This recent photo shows the small television sat dish on roof..too small for southern Baja use...although works as far south as Catavina.
While RVing in USA I use Verizon aircard for my internet..which will not work in Baja Sur.
Above: Hughes.net satellite dish for internet.
A typical portable sat. dish for television..with LNB,etc.
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It's Baja....I NEED internet and television!!
Muchas gracias.
[Edited on 10-17-2010 by Pompano]
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motoged
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Pompano,
Is this model too big?
Don't believe everything you think....
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Pompano
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..I LIKE IT !!
I can talk to my home planet again...
[Edited on 10-16-2010 by Pompano]
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Bob and Susan
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roger
here is the source in san diego
talk to bob dudley
http://www.digitaldishnet.com/
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Pompano
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Thanks, Bob...I'm calling Bob now. I remember him.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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motoged
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P.
Glad to help out 
| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
..I LIKE IT !!
I can talk to my home planet again...
[Edited on 10-16-2010 by Pompano] |
Don't believe everything you think....
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shari
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Da Da Da Da Daaaaaaaaaa! Whhoa...that first picture is right out of Close Encounters...did you start making little drawings and sculptures of that
rock landing marker???
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
Da Da Da Da Daaaaaaaaaa! Whhoa...that first picture is right out of Close Encounters...did you start making little drawings and sculptures of that
rock landing marker??? |
So you recognized Devil's Tower, shari...? I had some very close encounters while there, indeed. Like running out of olives for my martinis, etc..
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bufeo
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Pompano, have you considered a Motosat/Datastorm dish? We sold ours with the trailer, but while we had it (four years+) we, or rather, I, since spouse
is not addicted to this web stuff, really liked it.
The dish also had a BOW for DirecTV. Pretty good setup, and the new owners, who've now had it for a few months and several overland trips love it.
I never took it any further south than Pta Bufeo, but it worked fine from there to the Arctic Circle.
Allen R
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comitan
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I have a 1 meter dish complete for direct TV, no stand just post mount. It worked here in La Paz.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bufeo
Pompano, have you considered a Motosat/Datastorm dish? We sold ours with the trailer, but while we had it (four years+) we, or rather, I, since spouse
is not addicted to this web stuff, really liked it.
The dish also had a BOW for DirecTV. Pretty good setup, and the new owners, who've now had it for a few months and several overland trips love it.
I never took it any further south than Pta Bufeo, but it worked fine from there to the Arctic Circle.
Allen R |
Thanks for the Motostat info, Allen, but I had one on my last Fiver and didn't like the problems with raindrops and overhead obstructions...trees,
etc. Plus I am trading off this motorhome this winter, so no permanent addtions and costs needed...but gracias anyway.
comitan...I had a 1 meter dish for my Fiver also. Worked fine back in 2000 to 2002. No experience since then with such a small dish. Does yours get
good reception NOW?? If so, then I am interested. I can make a tripod mount easy enough.
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vandenberg
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I gave two 1 meter dishes to our gardner.
They don't work here in Loreto.
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comitan
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I guess I"m outdated.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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bufeo
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| Quote: | | Originally posted by Pompano...Thanks for the Motostat info, Allen, but I had one on my last Fiver and didn't like the problems with
raindrops and overhead obstructions...trees, etc. Plus I am trading off this motorhome this winter, so no permanent addtions and costs needed...but
gracias anyway... |
I can relate to the problems you mention. I see on another forum I frequent several internet/sat-tv setups involved with overland expeditions, but I
don't know the specific names of any. I'll bet there are several options for you. I've sent a PM to you.
Good hunting!
Allen R
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LaTijereta
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
I gave two 1 meter dishes to our gardner.
They don't work here in Loreto. |
Your a little south of Loreto..
But my one mtr dish still works in Loreto for DirectTV..
Channel selection has been limited over the years
Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
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Keri
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Pomp, I have a hughes 7000 I bought here off nomads and I have never used it. It doesn't have a tripod it has an arm, but I have the box too. I don't
know much about this stuff so the best you can do is call me and ask me questions I'll answer what I can. I'll send a u2u with my magicjack
number,k
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capt. mike
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just finished the design for my new neg edge catch basin yard fountain which uses my old 6' spun aluminum c band dish as the vessel.
i'll post pics when it is done, ought to come out really super. i have stored it for years ever since i got the directv 18" system.
i was going to bring it to baja since at 2 meters and with the right LNB it would be good for lower latitudes, now i'll just buy one there.
it will be nice to be at Lorenzo's when i am ready to plunge to the pac side for digs.
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
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comitan
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For everyone's information "C" Band will be obsolete after the first of the year.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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mulegemichael
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two years ago we brought a brand new dtv system down to mulege, had it all rigged up and ended up getting 3 stations...that's the norm here now for
dtv...seems like starchoice,(shawdirect) is now the tv of choice here; we get 200 channels or so
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mulegemichael
two years ago we brought a brand new dtv system down to mulege, had it all rigged up and ended up getting 3 stations...that's the norm here now for
dtv...seems like starchoice,(shawdirect) is now the tv of choice here; we get 200 channels or so |
Ouch! Only 3 channels on dtv in Mulege? Something is very wrong there...I get 40 or so channels via DirecTV at mi casa a few miles south of you,
Mike.
Some off the top of my head from last May......CNN, most Showtimes, Western Movies, either AMC or A&E?, Discovery, ESPN, E, USA, Spike, TNT, TBS.
TCM, NGC, Comedy, WE, Gay Fisherman, Action Movies, Mystery, SUND, Intrnatl Movies, scads of religious and product shows, informercials..lotsa
MUSIC!... and..drum roll, please!!.... Fox News.,
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