PaHunter
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- Oct 15, 2014
PaHunter, which Yogi were you at?
We stayed at the Williamsport one, I stayed there two weeks back in the spring for work, and we liked it then. So took the nephews back with us.
PaHunter, which Yogi were you at?
Another fantastic weekend camping at Sangchris Lake SP. Pentatonix at the Illinois State Fair tomorrow night.
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Jim, just noticed your Direct TV satellite dish. Curious if you have to just dish point, or just face south. Or, does this position itself doe you. We have Genies, and would like to use this when we camp as well. Old fuddy duds! When we last looked, they are about 1500.00? Thanks for any input. Nice campsite, BTW.
j
At our friends dairy farm in Wisconsin. Not a campground, but a fun place to be.View attachment 264175
I wish it was an automatic. This one is completely manual. I'm too cheap for the automatic ones, plus they don't make a reasonably priced automatic HD one for Directv. I've been doing this for so long, I can generally have it setup in about 10 minutes, unless there are a lot of trees. I have an app on my phone (Dish Aligner) that uses the phone GPS to calculate azimuth and elevation and a locator function to point you in the right direction. It helps get you in the vicinity, but you still need someone at the receiver calling out signal strength to get it fine tuned. For my old SD dish, I had a signal strength meter that went inline on the coax cable, but it doesn't work with the single cone SWiM dishes. I have the Genies too. I bought the SWiM splitter and power inserter when I bought the dish and installed it in the camper so it is ready to go. All I have to do is set the dish and align it. The camper came with separate satellite coax going to the living room and front bedroom. I took the antenna/park cable wire to the midbunk and basement and hooked it into the SWiM splitter so I can have satellite everywhere. The only draw back is you can't get regular antenna without switching the wires back.Jim, just noticed your Direct TV satellite dish. Curious if you have to just dish point, or just face south. Or, does this position itself doe you.
I work at a waste water treatment plant, so I'm used to it. It's a great getaway without the admission fee! We all pitch in to get chores done so they have time to relax.As Dairy Farmers as well in Wisconsin, kudos to you for living the life of a dairy farmer for a fun time. No doubt, then, you noticed our dairy aire! We love our Illinois visitors to Wisconsin. I am nice enough not to use the nickname!!
I wish it was an automatic. This one is completely manual. I'm too cheap for the automatic ones, plus they don't make a reasonably priced automatic HD one for Directv. I've been doing this for so long, I can generally have it setup in about 10 minutes, unless there are a lot of trees. I have an app on my phone (Dish Aligner) that uses the phone GPS to calculate azimuth and elevation and a locator function to point you in the right direction. It helps get you in the vicinity, but you still need someone at the receiver calling out signal strength to get it fine tuned. For my old SD dish, I had a signal strength meter that went inline on the coax cable, but it doesn't work with the single cone SWiM dishes. I have the Genies too. I bought the SWiM splitter and power inserter when I bought the dish and installed it in the camper so it is ready to go. All I have to do is set the dish and align it. The camper came with separate satellite coax going to the living room and front bedroom. I took the antenna/park cable wire to the midbunk and basement and hooked it into the SWiM splitter so I can have satellite everywhere. The only draw back is you can't get regular antenna without switching the wires back.
j