Automatic satellite dish? Advice please
Hi,
Been looking for an automatic satellite dish, roof mounted (for ease). Selfsat Snipe V2 with twin LNB seems to show up as best value and quality for money. Has anyone any advice or suggestions with this or recommend another?. Im fairly new to caravanning
and my van is pitched in the north east of scotland seasonally so wont matter about range outwith UK. All advice etc. appreciated.
Cheers,
Marc
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imised to have a manual version of the twin LMB Self Sat on my Bolero, equivalent to a 60cm dish, but smaller and less affected by wind....easy to tune in, too....
the Snipe auto version seems to ne good valie and work pretty well, from the reports ive read...
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I'd rather have a permanant fixture on the roof, do it right and thats it. I understand and appreciate what your saying, but having a pole with a dish at the front of the van would get my OCD going.. i like to keep everything looking clean as possible.
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I'd rather have a permanant fixture on the roof, do it right and thats it. I understand and appreciate what your saying, but having a pole with a dish at the front of the van would get my OCD going.. i like to keep everything looking clean as possible.
Sounds as though a 65cm Maxview crank up sytem would meet your needs, less than half the price of a fully automatic system and it would fit very neatly on your roof.
peedee
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I'd rather have a permanant fixture on the roof, do it right and thats it. I understand and appreciate what your saying, but having a pole with a dish at the front of the van would get my OCD going.. i like to keep everything looking clean as possible.
Sounds as though a 65cm Maxview crank up sytem would meet your needs, less than half the price of a fully automatic system and it would fit very neatly on your roof.
peedee
But then that would not meet the OP's need as inside the van there will be extra clutter, certainly not as clean as possible, to get the OCD going even stronger.
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We have a mecatronic 85cm fully automatic dish with auto skew, purchased and fitted from Roadpro, excellent piece of kit, well worth the expense.
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I'd rather have a permanant fixture on the roof, do it right and thats it. I understand and appreciate what your saying, but having a pole with a dish at the front of the van would get my OCD going.. i like to keep everything looking clean as possible.
Sounds as though a 65cm Maxview crank up sytem would meet your needs, less than half the price of a fully automatic system and it would fit very neatly on your roof.
peedee
But then that would not meet the OP's need as inside the van there will be extra clutter, certainly not as clean as possible, to get the OCD going even stronger.
I cannot imaging the "clutter" to be any worse than a fully automatic system as no control box is required but if the OP wants to pay three times as much for an automatic one for use on what is essentially a static van, then it is his choice.
peedee
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I'd rather have a permanant fixture on the roof, do it right and thats it. I understand and appreciate what your saying, but having a pole with a dish at the front of the van would get my OCD going.. i like to keep everything looking clean as possible.
Sounds as though a 65cm Maxview crank up sytem would meet your needs, less than half the price of a fully automatic system and it would fit very neatly on your roof.
peedee
peedee. iam looking at fitting one of these (see my OP thread),have you used one or any advice about it.....thanks
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We have an Oyster system and it works really well.
glad to hear that, we are having one of these fitted at the end of the year, think its an 85cm with autoskew.
mine happens to be a Teleco 85 twin LNB, but very similar in design and operation, they are very easy to use and have a terrific range for uk channels, just about down to the south coast of France...the auto-skew will help squeeze a bit more range out of
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Sounds as though a 65cm Maxview crank up sytem would meet your needs, less than half the price of a fully automatic system and it would fit very neatly on your roof.
peedee
peedee. iam looking at fitting one of these (see my OP thread),have you used one or any advice about it.....thanks
No I have a Trac Vision R4 twin LNB automatic system but I have seen the Max view in use. Looks a neat job and saves storing and messing about with a tripod and external dish otherwise it is little different. It will have the same disadvantages of any roof mounted job in that line of site will be required but on the other hand as you should be able to see the TV set as you align the dish, it should be easier to lock onto the satellite.
peedee
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We have an Oyster system and it works really well.
glad to hear that, we are having one of these fitted at the end of the year, think its an 85cm with autoskew.
Write your comments here...dont know if its auto skew or even what that means however I do know all I have to do is turn the TV on, the disk automatiacally pops up and swivels round to pick up the satelite and within 2 minutes (less second time you turn on in the same position) you are wathcing crystal clear TV. The TV is an Avtex so top quality and the gubbins that operates the system is in a top cupboard that you dont even notice. Our is the 65cm version so I guess its not going to be so good abroad but generally we only go away in Summer to Europe and never watch TV apart from when there is world cup or Euros on.
It came with the van as standard and before I would have said its not worth the moeny however now I think it would be on our list of must have's.....
You do have to watch where you pitch and try to get clear sky to the south ish but so far we have not had issues.
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Sounds as though a 65cm Maxview crank up sytem would meet your needs, less than half the price of a fully automatic system and it would fit very neatly on your roof.
peedee
peedee. iam looking at fitting one of these (see my OP thread),have you used one or any advice about it.....thanks
No I have a Trac Vision R4 twin LNB automatic system but I have seen the Max view in use. Looks a neat job and saves storing and messing about with a tripod and external dish otherwise it is little different. It will have the same disadvantages of any roof
mounted job in that line of site will be required but on the other hand as you should be able to see the TV set as you align the dish, it should be easier to lock onto the satellite.peedee
Thanks peedee,we dont watch that much TV so cant justyfy the cost of a fully automatic one ,and i still have the dish and tripod from the caravan i dont want to leave that on a pitch and go out
looks like a maxview will be ordered soon
sorry to the OP for jumping in , but it is about sat dish's
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husky, these semi-automatic or 'through the roof' manual systems are very good value (you do the tuning) and fairly easy to set up, especially for someone who has used a manual system before...
cranking up the dish height first, makes it easy then the swing the dish around to locate the signal....no probs...
Michael, the skew angle is a form of fine tuning which compensates for your movement around locations in the van.
just gives a better chance of tuning in when on the fringes of a signal area.
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Had a look at all these options mentioned, thanks for advise all. Made choosing alot harder now.. as for the static caravan part and paying 3x money. That dosent come into it im not fussed about spending a grand/1500 or so for a decent bit of kit, rather
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....or £2.5k or £3k
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I've used an Oyster Caro for years, it's now on it's third motorhome. Not cheap but reliable.
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We have a mecatronic 85cm fully automatic dish with auto skew, purchased and fitted from Roadpro, excellent piece of kit, well worth the expense.
We have the same except for the autoskew and fitted by Road Pro who are excellent but suspect in the OP's circumstances they are a bit far away.
David
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I have been looking at automatic satellite systems for a while and enquired with an approved avtex supplier how much it would cost to fit a Snipe V2 system to my caravan. The answer came as a bit of a surprise - I was told that they were not designed for caravans but more for "sheds" (yes, sheds) and similar buildings! They recommend the Snipe dome as a more appropriate unit. I was confused before - even more confused now!
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