Satellite TV

Ok so we have now purchased most of what we think we will need for our twelve month trip, my poor brother in law John cannot use his dinning room as its now full of boxes which we have had delivered to his place. He is even storing stuff in the "mud room"!

In the course of looking at communication type gear I came across satellite TV subscriptions, you can actually do a pay by the month plan, so now I was interested. I have no doubt Rose will get sick of me gas bagging and just wish that we had history channel to shut me up! Our trailer after all comes with a TV that pops out of the bench and yes we can watch local channels but us blokes are never satisfied with the simple gadget options, we want the top shelf stuff. I asked John his thoughts about satellite TV and of course he said a must have, I was sold, I then proceeded to sell all the benefits to Rose, ha she bought it!

So off I go researching satellite TV antennas and of course they start at base price which requires manual alignment up to auto locating they even have satellite dishes that you can use in your RV while driving. A check of You Tube and there are plenty of videos and of course a check on google gets plenty of hits.

For satellite antenna's in the US they must point south. The satellite sits some 20,000 Klm in space, so if your off by one degree you could miss the satellite by a thousand kilometres! Anyone who has put an antenna up will relate to yelling down to the wife, "left a bit", "how's that?" and this then all ends up in tears. Of course being a gadget man I had my eye on the deluxe model, that is, it finds the satellite all by itself. Now as usual I had to sell it to Rose, I had no sooner opened my mouth about the pro's and con's and she said, "it will be me outside in the cold moving the antenna don't even ask Ron get the auto locating model!" Have to be happy with that outcome.

So onto Camping World again, and we bought a Winegard GM 1518 satellite antenna, and as always Camping World had the best price, shipped!

Now onto the Pay TV subscription, I spoke to John and he said "hey I have a spare receiver (in fact he has 3 receivers in the house) in the spare room you can use". Now the US is not like Australia where they charge an arm and a leg for a second satellite receiver, in the US it's about $5 a month. I offered to pay for the 12 months, that was the least I could do.

So now we have satellite TV to keep abreast of the goings on of the outside world.


- Posted by RnR on their IPad

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