dish in the fish house

[Dan Wagner]

I want to hook up satalite in my fish house. I have seen a few on the lake, how would a guy hook one up for a good price, and will dish network help me out or will they tell me to go buy the $700 rv unit? any help or info would be great.

[PierBridge]

A lot of people are doing it, most are existing Dishnetwork or Direct TV customers they will bring a satellite box from home along with an extra Dish......

[JaySt.cloud]

I have a setup in my fishouse. We actually have a cabin that also has Direct TV that we don't use in the winter months. I just called up Direct TV and told them I was moving the cabin tv's to home. Therefore my bare bones cabin channels now are switched to play in my house. So now I recieve all channels for only the $5 /mo it costs as an extra reciever. I take that reciever and use it in the fishouse.

Next thing you need to buy is a dish. I think the little ones with tripods are relatvely cheap. Or you can go to the roof mount so you shouldn;t ever have to worry bout moving the dish, its automatic. Like a kingdome. This is the route I went and I'll let you know how happy I am with it once we get to try it out. It sure seems to work out at the shed just fine! I am impressed.

[Big D 1]

You can also find free receivers and dishes on freecycle, hsolist, etc..just keep your eyes open....if you are a current subscriber, and can get a free setup, you are set

[dodgeman]

JaySt.cloud what number kingdome did you buy a 9630 or 9702 I am thinking about doing that also but not sure what one to buy??

Dish network you have to find 2 satilites and direct tv its only 1 i think dtv on the lake is easier to setup but just my 2 cents

[JaySt.cloud]

Dodgeman,

Not sure which one it was, but it will automatically track the sattelite once the house is set. Just turn power to the unit on and it will find it. The only recommendation would be to look for somehitng as low profile as possible. I feel like this dome really sticks up in the air. I know they make low profile ones.

If your in the market for one, go to campingworld in Rodgers and talk to a technician. He booted my system up and said I should have gotten a Weingard versus the Kingdome. Seems thy are more reliable and have fewer moving parts to break.

I do love mine however and haven't had any problems with it, mine is fairy new however

[Big Chicken]

I mounted my dish on a 18" patio block. I leveled the block and pre-setup the dish for full signal at home. This way when I go to set up I just need to level the patio block (lake ice is pretty level) and rotate the dish to the southwest direction until I get full signal. The block is heavy and the dish won't blow over. It's pretty quick and easy to set up out in the field and about $700 less than the the automatic dome dishes.

[macminn]

Jay,

Kind of an aside. How does that work with your cabin? I'd like to bring my old dish up to the lake as well. So in the summer do you just pay for the extra dish, or a whole other set up?

[PierBridge]

Get an extra dish, set it up at your cabin, bring Satellite box from home watch TV........don't tell the Satellite company.

[JaySt.cloud]

Mac,

Pier is right on. I am kind of doing the same thing. I just started out paying for 2 different places. Now I have combined, but I have all the channels at home and had very few at the cabin, called Direct and now the fishouse has all the channels! They don't mind you moving recievers around.