Hi Dave:
Like Roger, I also have DirectTV. I bought spare dish from Bestbuy and
mount it on a small platform that I made up from junk in my workshop. It has
little rubber feet on it so I can place it on the ground, on my truck, on
the trailer, wherever. I glued a bubble level on the top of a small length
of abs pipe and can level it in two directions. The dish rotates easily on
the plastic pipe to achieve the proper satellite azimuth. I preset the look
angle on the dish mount. Finally, a satellite pointing compass I got from
Camperschoice makes hitting the satellite almost too easy.
Be advised though, the trick is to not get more than one receiver at home.
If you do, they must be hooked up to the phone line at all times, regardless
of whether you use pay per view or not. The sat company wants to make sure
that you don't give one of the receivers to your buddy and checks up now and
then (at night I think) to see that they are all hooked up. If you have
only one receiver, as I do, there is no requirement for phone hookup and, as
Roger says, you just take it along when you go out with the trailer. Who's
to know or care?
If you want to see a picture of the dish mounting gizmo I made lemme know
and I'll send you one.
GQ '67 Safari
4082 in CA