I know there are lots of folks that use Satellite TV when cruising. I've
looked up the little while receiver 'bubbles' and found they were $5000.
Not in my budget! How can I receive satellite TV while aboard & at anchor?

If leaving the USA, how far south through the Bahamas and to the islands
will I be able to receive signal?

Glenn.
s/v Seawing
www.seawing.net

"Glenn A. Heslop" wrote in message
news:nb7Df.480274$ki.327768@pd7tw2no...
I know there are lots of folks that use Satellite TV when cruising. I've
looked up the little while receiver 'bubbles' and found they were $5000.
Not in my budget! How can I receive satellite TV while aboard & at
anchor?

If leaving the USA, how far south through the Bahamas and to the islands
will I be able to receive signal?

Glenn.
s/v Seawing
www.seawing.net

I suppose there's the follow-me-tv product you see all the time in sailing
magazines. No experience myself.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

If you can't receive television, count your blessings and take along more
books.



"Glenn A. Heslop" wrote in message
news:nb7Df.480274$ki.327768@pd7tw2no...
I know there are lots of folks that use Satellite TV when cruising. I've
looked up the little while receiver 'bubbles' and found they were $5000.
Not in my budget! How can I receive satellite TV while aboard & at
anchor?

If leaving the USA, how far south through the Bahamas and to the islands
will I be able to receive signal?

Glenn.
s/v Seawing
www.seawing.net

You're right
I just bought a boat 46' trawler. We were sailors for 25 years.
Then I went out and bought a sat antenna, i'ts being installed now.
I'm not sure why I did it. Just to get 150 channels of rubbish.
But you need it to get High Definition channels and I like PBS
progamming.
Who knows...

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:34:51 -0800, "R.W. Behan"
wrote:

If you can't receive television, count your blessings and take along more
books.



"Glenn A. Heslop" wrote in message
news:nb7Df.480274$ki.327768@pd7tw2no...
I know there are lots of folks that use Satellite TV when cruising. I've
looked up the little while receiver 'bubbles' and found they were $5000.
Not in my budget! How can I receive satellite TV while aboard & at
anchor?

If leaving the USA, how far south through the Bahamas and to the islands
will I be able to receive signal?

Glenn.
s/v Seawing
www.seawing.net

Dieter,
Thanks for understanding. We sailed a Westsail 32 for a good many years,
and then bought a Victory Tug. Spent 3 months last summer cruising to
Alaska and back, and found the scenery and a good onboard library more than
adequate entertainment. Full disclosu we don't even watch TV at home.
Fair skies and smooth seas to you, sir.
Dick B.


"Dieter Evertz" wrote in message
...
You're right
I just bought a boat 46' trawler. We were sailors for 25 years.
Then I went out and bought a sat antenna, i'ts being installed now.
I'm not sure why I did it. Just to get 150 channels of rubbish.
But you need it to get High Definition channels and I like PBS
progamming.
Who knows...

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:34:51 -0800, "R.W. Behan"
wrote:

If you can't receive television, count your blessings and take along more
books.



"Glenn A. Heslop" wrote in message
news:nb7Df.480274$ki.327768@pd7tw2no...
I know there are lots of folks that use Satellite TV when cruising. I've
looked up the little while receiver 'bubbles' and found they were $5000.
Not in my budget! How can I receive satellite TV while aboard & at
anchor?

If leaving the USA, how far south through the Bahamas and to the islands
will I be able to receive signal?

Glenn.
s/v Seawing
www.seawing.net

Glenn A. Heslop wrote:
I know there are lots of folks that use Satellite TV when cruising.
I've looked up the little while receiver 'bubbles' and found they
were $5000. Not in my budget! How can I receive satellite TV while
aboard & at anchor?

If leaving the USA, how far south through the Bahamas and to the
islands will I be able to receive signal?

Glenn.
s/v Seawing
www.seawing.net

You're gonna have fun adjusting the antenna constantly whilst on a swinging
mooring. The wife might do it for ten minutes or so, but what then?

"Dennis Pogson" wrote:

Glenn A. Heslop wrote:
I know there are lots of folks that use Satellite TV when cruising.
I've looked up the little while receiver 'bubbles' and found they
were $5000. Not in my budget! How can I receive satellite TV while
aboard & at anchor?

If leaving the USA, how far south through the Bahamas and to the
islands will I be able to receive signal?

Glenn.
s/v Seawing
www.seawing.net

You're gonna have fun adjusting the antenna constantly whilst on a swinging
mooring. The wife might do it for ten minutes or so, but what then?

The follow-me is for adjusting the antenna when at anchor - that's the
expensive part. (It isn't for adjusting for latitude)

We have a dish on the boat and a dish on the house. We take the
receivers from the house to the boat when we move aboard. All you
have to do is point the dish at the satellites. Bob does this using
the GPS (or by looking at other people's satellites.

As for how far south you can go - we've only been down to Key West and
over to the Bahamas, and I know you can get the signals there although
you are not supposed to be able to use it in the Bahamas.

Plus if you don't tell them you are on a boat and let them think you
are in an RV, you can even get local channels. We can get the DC
channels all over the Chesapeake and down to about the Alligator
River, and we can get the Miami channels from about Ft. Pierce down to
Key West.


grandma Rosalie

How do the portable little tv's work on a boat. The ones that have the very
small screen.


"Glenn A. Heslop" wrote in message
news:nb7Df.480274$ki.327768@pd7tw2no...
I know there are lots of folks that use Satellite TV when cruising. I've
looked up the little while receiver 'bubbles' and found they were $5000.
Not in my budget! How can I receive satellite TV while aboard & at
anchor?

If leaving the USA, how far south through the Bahamas and to the islands
will I be able to receive signal?

Glenn.
s/v Seawing
www.seawing.net

"Thomas Wentworth" wrote in
news:qXyEf.2113$8U2.457@trndny06:

How do the portable little tv's work on a boat. The ones that have
the very small screen.


Two words....Just awful. So cheap they forgot to put transistors in the
RECEIVER! The picture's decent if you're close enough to the station you
can feel the RF heating your skin from the antennas...(c;

Oh, another thing to look at....

If the screen looks WHITE when the TV is off....YOU CAN'T SEE IT IF THERE
IS ANY ambient light at all! Those are the worst!

Doesn't matter these days. Analog TV in the States will go dark in a
couple of years and only DTV will be broadcast so the stations can hit you
with user fees to watch something besides the spam....

Wanna see football? Call 1-800-FEED US MONEY and we'll turn the football
game on on your ADDRESSABLE HDTV set by remote control right in the
broadcast data stream.

(You haven't heard them say anything about that, have you?)

Pay TV comes to over-the-air broadcasting....DTV, HDTV, Digital
Radio...soon.

Larry,,,, I guess I will leave the tv at home. Who needs it anyway. A
good book, some music [cd's], and a warm ocean breeze.


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"Larry" wrote in message
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"Thomas Wentworth" wrote in
news:qXyEf.2113$8U2.457@trndny06:

How do the portable little tv's work on a boat. The ones that have
the very small screen.


Two words....Just awful. So cheap they forgot to put transistors in the
RECEIVER! The picture's decent if you're close enough to the station you
can feel the RF heating your skin from the antennas...(c;

Oh, another thing to look at....

If the screen looks WHITE when the TV is off....YOU CAN'T SEE IT IF THERE
IS ANY ambient light at all! Those are the worst!

Doesn't matter these days. Analog TV in the States will go dark in a
couple of years and only DTV will be broadcast so the stations can hit you
with user fees to watch something besides the spam....

Wanna see football? Call 1-800-FEED US MONEY and we'll turn the football
game on on your ADDRESSABLE HDTV set by remote control right in the
broadcast data stream.

(You haven't heard them say anything about that, have you?)

Pay TV comes to over-the-air broadcasting....DTV, HDTV, Digital
Radio...soon.