[lowrange]

I'm thinking about college football in the fall, and the Florida Outpouring everynight on Directv channel 365. The point being, I'm thinking about doing whatever I can to watch what I want, when I want, all the while I'm making my vast fortune as a trucking O/O.

Anyone got satelite? Care to break it down for me?

Special equipment?
Are the satelite companies cool with this?
Siting in the satelite?
Setup time?
Anything else?

TIA

[tweety bird]

There are a lot of drivers with satellite tv- you can see the dishes hooked up when they're parked at most any truck stop. A lot have the King Dome-type dish that either finds the sat signal automatically or is in-motion (meaning it tracks the signal while moving). There are several manufacturers of that type of dish.

Getting local channels can be tricky- we had satellite but couldn't ever get them to add on the local channels. We had friends who had no problem with that- I think it all depends on who happens to answer the phone when you call. If you ask for the local channels when you sign up, you're more likely to get them than if you try to add them after you already have the service.

Because you can't hook to a phone line, you'll get a monthly service charge- it's like $5.

[lowrange]

Originally Posted by tweety bird

There are a lot of drivers with satellite tv- you can see the dishes hooked up when they're parked at most any truck stop. A lot have the King Dome-type dish that either finds the sat signal automatically or is in-motion (meaning it tracks the signal while moving). There are several manufacturers of that type of dish.

Getting local channels can be tricky- we had satellite but couldn't ever get them to add on the local channels. We had friends who had no problem with that- I think it all depends on who happens to answer the phone when you call. If you ask for the local channels when you sign up, you're more likely to get them than if you try to add them after you already have the service.

Because you can't hook to a phone line, you'll get a monthly service charge- it's like $5.

Thanks Tweety. I don't like how those satelite services can be. We called Directv I think it was and got four different answers from four different people. Dish TV...how about 6 trips out to the house for someone to finally change out the box to fix a problem.

Anyway, where do you get the king dome, who sells it. Is there a special receiver...like a 12v model. :lol:

[Rev.Vassago]

I know a guy who pulls for Landstar who has a VuQube dish mounted on the back of his sleeper (where a Qualcomm would go). It's a nice portable unit, and it works quite well. He has satellite service at home, and pays an extra $9.99 for a second receiver which he has in his truck. From what he was saying, he had to get a special card from the guy who sold him the dish. As to why, I don't know.

That VuQube seems like a really neat system, though. It is a lot smaller than the KingDome system, and it will automatically find the best signal without you having to enter any information in regarding your location.



Here's a good video about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX7D_E-zgww

[flood]

what we did was for x-mass we got new hd tv's for the house so for the super bowl we upgraded our dish network dishes to hd. so we have the left over dish and dvr box,

iowa 80 has a mast that mounts to the handrail on the back of the cab $59.99 i will be installing it all tormorow and will post some picks when it's done. i should have it all done for about $100, but i did have the dish and the dvr.

if you don't want to go thrught all of the work to set it up each time check out vuqube http://shop.makariosrv.com/category.sc?categoryId=286

[lowrange]

Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago

I know a guy who pulls for Landstar who has a VuQube dish mounted on the back of his sleeper (where a Qualcomm would go). It's a nice portable unit, and it works quite well. He has satellite service at home, and pays an extra $9.99 for a second receiver which he has in his truck. From what he was saying, he had to get a special card from the guy who sold him the dish. As to why, I don't know.

That VuQube seems like a really neat system, though. It is a lot smaller than the KingDome system, and it will automatically find the best signal without you having to enter any information in regarding your location.

Wow, that's a lot better than paying $40/mo for an additional account for your truck. Maybe I need to find somebody to talk to with Directv. It's too bad those Interstate kiosks in the TA don't sell it, they sell everything else.

Thanks Rev, I'll take a look at that link tonight.

[flood]

BTW lowa 80 does have vuqube
but you will still need a dirct vt or dish network box

[Longsnowsm]

Why not just send your cable tv at home to you on the road? There are a variety of products, but slingbox comes to mind. You might check that out.

Longsnowsm

[Rev.Vassago]

Originally Posted by Longsnowsm

Why not just send your cable tv at home to you on the road? There are a variety of products, but slingbox comes to mind. You might check that out.

Longsnowsm

Several reasons:

1. Most wireless internet providers have monthly bandwidth limits. The ones who don't are becoming fewer and fewer.

2. If you don't have a good connection, you don't have cable TV.

3. The quality won't be as good.

[lowrange]

Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago

Several reasons:

1. Most wireless internet providers have monthly bandwidth limits. The ones who don't are becoming fewer and fewer.

2. If you don't have a good connection, you don't have cable TV.

3. The quality won't be as good.

What's up with that, Rev? I've got Verizon and I webstream a lot, it hasn't become a problem, yet. Just today I started wondering if I could find these games on podcast. If so, that would probably settle everything for me.