What is a useful tv-satellite dish on board?
 

We live on board our sloop and we're leaving for an unknown period
(grin).
We would like to have sat-tv on board for one or maybe two hours a
week watching.
We feel no real urge to buy this KVH Trackvision dish mushroom for
many thousands.
Anyone here with end-user experience with a system that manages to
keep a reasonable
connection at anchor but which is a bit cheaper?

Thanks and fair winds,
Len.

What is a useful tv-satellite dish on board?
 

On Apr 17, 10:02 am, Len wrote:
We live on board our sloop and we're leaving for an unknown period
(grin).
We would like to have sat-tv on board for one or maybe two hours a
week watching.
We feel no real urge to buy this KVH Trackvision dish mushroom for
many thousands.
Anyone here with end-user experience with a system that manages to
keep a reasonable
connection at anchor but which is a bit cheaper?

Thanks and fair winds,
Len.

We have a regular Dish Network dish aboard. If you toss a stern and
bow anchor, and swing and bob less than 11 degrees it works well.

Joe

What is a useful tv-satellite dish on board?
 

Len... I've been seriously considering the type of application that
Joe has on his boat.

One of my dock neighbors has his satellite dish on a rod holder that
is mounted on the rear transom rail. When he goes out for a day
sail...
he just takes it off and along with the feed line stows it on his
dock.

My boat is quite small as well... so I will be doing the same
thing...
or stow it on the aft berth while under way along with all the other
junk. (smile)

Since I will be using DirectTV... I may just get one of their
vendor's
all in one TV sets.

It's a 20" LCD with Direct's receiver built in. Just one less
external
component to deal with.

Here is the vendor's web site which shows this unit:

http://www.humaxusa.com/index_1.html

Fortunately (as Joe pointed out) conditions at my marina and slip are
usually very stable... so signal loss and/or adjusting shouldn't be an
on
going problem.

Bill

Anacapa Isle Marina
Channel Islands Harbor
Oxnard, California

What is a useful tv-satellite dish on board?
 

Try http://www.track-it-tv.com/

Cheers

"Len" wrote in message
ups.com...
We live on board our sloop and we're leaving for an unknown period
(grin).
We would like to have sat-tv on board for one or maybe two hours a
week watching.
We feel no real urge to buy this KVH Trackvision dish mushroom for
many thousands.
Anyone here with end-user experience with a system that manages to
keep a reasonable
connection at anchor but which is a bit cheaper?

Thanks and fair winds,
Len.

What is a useful tv-satellite dish on board?
 

Check out http://www.raysat.com/ . Their product will track satellites
while on the move. Don't know the price, but I am considering it for my
catamaran. I understand that they have an Internet capable dish in
development.

"Len" wrote in message
ups.com...
We live on board our sloop and we're leaving for an unknown period
(grin).
We would like to have sat-tv on board for one or maybe two hours a
week watching.
We feel no real urge to buy this KVH Trackvision dish mushroom for
many thousands.
Anyone here with end-user experience with a system that manages to
keep a reasonable
connection at anchor but which is a bit cheaper?

Thanks and fair winds,
Len.

What is a useful tv-satellite dish on board?
 

Thank you all for responding.

Islander,
Have you used track-it-tv yourself or have you heared about
experiences at anchor?

Fair winds,
Len.

What is a useful tv-satellite dish on board?
 

On Apr 18, 12:57 am, Len wrote:
Thank you all for responding.

Islander,
Have you used track-it-tv yourself or have you heared about
experiences at anchor?

Fair winds,
Len.

I've used one for a year or so and love it. It works fine at anchor,
or even underway. Will lose signal if you're rolling a lot, but in
calm conditions it's great. Very hard rain will also cause you to lose
signal, but that's a function of the dish, not the Track-it system.

What is a useful tv-satellite dish on board?
 

"Islander" wrote:

Try http://www.track-it-tv.com/

Cheers

"Len" wrote in message
oups.com...
We live on board our sloop and we're leaving for an unknown period
(grin).
We would like to have sat-tv on board for one or maybe two hours a
week watching.
We feel no real urge to buy this KVH Trackvision dish mushroom for
many thousands.
Anyone here with end-user experience with a system that manages to
keep a reasonable
connection at anchor but which is a bit cheaper?

I don't know what the trackvision dish is. We've got a regular
DirectTV dish/service and a follow-me antenna, and it works well at
anchor. We don't use it at the dock because the boat doesn't move
that much at dock. Usually we can aim it at a new dock by looking at
the other sat-dishes in the marina and seeing which way they are
pointing.

We move the tuners back and forth between the house and the boat - we
just leave the sat-dish in place at the house when we are gone.

What is a useful tv-satellite dish on board?
 

On Apr 17, 11:03 pm, "Easton Beymer" wrote:
Check outhttp://www.raysat.com/. Their product will track satellites
while on the move. Don't know the price, but I am considering it for my
catamaran. I understand that they have an Internet capable dish in
development.

1,900 dollars for a ray sat antenna.

Joe




Thanks and fair winds,
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What is a useful tv-satellite dish on board?
 

Odd - I can't see my original reply? (But I guess you can).

I've not got one - used to be called "Follow me TV", a relatively cheap
solution, seems to only track in the horizontal but should be OK at anchor.
I'm keeping an eye on prices and might get this if still so much cheaper
than the alternatives.

Cheers.

"Len" wrote in message
oups.com...
Thank you all for responding.

Islander,
Have you used track-it-tv yourself or have you heared about
experiences at anchor?

Fair winds,
Len.