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There are downsides with a portable dish. You have to get it out, set it up (could be 2 mins, could be 20 mins! depending on your luck that day), put it away and of course, it is tempting for light fingers to cut the cable in the night and gain themselves a dish. But it is a very cheap and effective way of getting satellite! I started years ago with a small sky dish on a pole that I used to strap to my caravan jockey wheel, worked fine for years. Now I like the convenience of a fixed roof system.
Using a remote mount is a valid point - but in practice rarely needed.
We've had our current van for a year and when we bought it there was a fitted Globesat manual dish and a digibox. We threw the digibox out and replaced it with a Comag 12v receiver, it works just fine. As a back-up I always throw a little Maplin dish and length of coax in the garage just in case. In the 12 months we've had the van the Maplin dish has never left its box.
99% of the time you can get a signal from the van mounted dish by picking your pitch carefully or shuffling the van around a foot or two.
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99% of the time you can get a signal from the van mounted dish by picking your pitch carefully or shuffling the van around a foot or two.
Twice in the last week I avoided the shuffle because I had 20ft of cable to move instead of the van.
You pays your money and takes the chance.
Like you Gaspode I would favour carrying the little portable dish even if I had a roof fixed dish.
There is also the problem that you cannot always choose your pitch, carefully or otherwise, and YOU MUST PARK AT THE PEG!!
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