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Does anyone have experience or comments on the "Follow Me TV" dish
aiming system? I'm particularly concerned with durability and reliability. http://www.followmetv.com Thanks in advance. |
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Wayne.B wrote:
Does anyone have experience or comments on the "Follow Me TV" dish aiming system? I'm particularly concerned with durability and reliability. http://www.followmetv.com Thanks in advance. We have one, and got it on the advice of other cruisers. Works well, although we haven't used it much because we don't anchor all that much. grandma Rosalie |
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 04:15:22 GMT, Rosalie B.
wrote: We have one, and got it on the advice of other cruisers. Works well, although we haven't used it much because we don't anchor all that much. ================= When you are at a dock, will it find the proper bearing automatically, or do you have to manually align it? |
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Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 04:15:22 GMT, Rosalie B. wrote: We have one, and got it on the advice of other cruisers. Works well, although we haven't used it much because we don't anchor all that much. ================= When you are at a dock, will it find the proper bearing automatically, or do you have to manually align it? Even at anchor, you probably need to move it until you find the proper signal. Then it will lock onto that bearing and keep it. Bob says it is much easier to look at the compass to find out which way is 240 and initially swing it yourself. He turns up the tone on the TV loud enough so that he can hear it and turns it to the bearing, then based on the tone he sets the tilt. [He watched the technician set the dish up on the boat, and then when we moved it to the house, we mounted the dish on the chimney (two story house - middle chimney in this picture on the back of the house) http://p.vtourist.com/2320161-1930s_...eonardtown.jpg He went up the ladder with the cell phone, and mounted it and called me on the cell phone where I was inside with the TV to get the best signal.] At the dock, he will often just look around to see which way other people's antennas are pointed. He says he does occasionally use the Follow Me in the dock if the boat is moving around a lot. I sometimes help him by shouting out the number of bars, but usually just opening a hatch does it -- we do have a center cockpit boat and the follow-me is over the aft cabin which has a deck hatch right next to the antenna mount. He has the follow-me on one side of the scuba bottle box. The only picture I have of that is a part of a larger set of photos (the third set showing modifications of the boat) which is at http://www.photoworks.com/share/shar...BEC1BBDF&cb=PW It is the 8th picture in the set. In position on the follow-me, it interferes with the swinging of the boom, so he de mounts it before we get underway and it is stored on the other side of that box. It has happened that 240 degrees was directly to the port side of the boat, and the boom completely kept the dish from receiving a signal. So in that case, he just left the dish in the stowed position on the other side of the box. Incidentally, a big power boat coming into the next slip did not even cause a flicker in the signal. HTH grandma Rosalie S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD CSY 44 WO #156 http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id1.html |
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