Looks like a SWR meter for CBs.

Ray.

 

I have bought one and tried it. Works perfectly on my satellite system!

Andy

 

Yes I also have one Andy but it's many years since I used it. Kept it with the portable Sat Dish I carried in the van but van now gone and I'm wondering why I'm keeping the Sat.

Ray.

 

My home-cobbled-together-cheap-as-chips portable satellite system for the caravan is the only reason I have one. The old meter had defo seen (much) better days so at less than a fiver it was silly not to get one.

Might be worth advertising your old set up on here? A few Euro’s in your pocket is better than clutter in your garage/workshop/glory-hole

You off to Portugal over the winter again??

Andy

 

I threw out a complete Camos Dome dish Mk1 (originally about £1400) the other day, Its on Barnard Castle Tip.

I once saw a bloke mess on for about two hours with one of those portable dishes in France only for him in the end to lose his rag and hoof the thing. :lol:

 

I have only ever had a cobbled together set up (except when I bought a MH with a crank up sat dish already fitted)

TV is not, in my view (geddit?) a vital thing to have whilst away, and it’s certainly not worth spending the daft sums of money that auto systems are. What is it about TV that some seem incapable of surviving a couple of weeks without?

Andy

 

It must have taken me all off two minutes to lock onto the Sky sat Baz. Just long enough for hid to make my cuppa.
Only trouble trying to sell from here Andy is collection or postage. It will probably get buried with me.

Ray.

 

Im not sure I would bother fitting another one on a new van. Live TV is crap and the footprint much reduced. Ours was fitted in 2008 when there wasnt much other option. Winter trips away or long trips, it was nice to have something to watch and I got fed up of arriving at places only to find there was no TV coverage. Now I just tend to carry a library of TV Series pre downloaded and we watch them when the mood suits.

 

Bahhhhh, kids and their recordings. Live TV is the only way to go for us oldies who need to know whats going on in the world before we peg it.
New (old) series of Line of Duty was great last night on live TV.

Ray.

 

Bahhhhh, kids and their recordings. Live TV is the only way to go for us oldies who need to know whats going on in the world before we peg it.
New (old) series of Line of Duty was great last night on live TV.

Ray.

They are all available on iPlayer Ray! Guess you will need a VPN though.

I like to binge watch stuff though. I find that if I have to wait a week for an episode of something I forget whats going on and if its a year between series even worse.

 

I do have a VPN Baz. Pure as it happens but don't want to spend time watching on the PC when we have a bloody great TV in the lounge. And as yet haven't found the need or inclination to try and hook my so called 'smart' TV up to the net.

Live TV one remote that is so simple even my wife can manage it, I know dangerous talk.
But if I messed about getting an extender to the TV finding the right channel and something my wife actually wanted to watch, she would be asleep before it aired.
We can 'binge' watch if we choose to record a whole series but almost every time we have done that it sat on the Humax for several years as we have never found the time to devote to the whole series even on those rare wet sundays.

For the life of me I can't see the need when we have 200+ channels and 60 recordings to go look for any more. Don't forget we can get Freeview and Freesat with one press. To actually view online content is a protracted pita.

Ray.