Sat Dish

[lucas]

Bought a sat dish and went down to the boat to fit it last weekend. Discovered that the hard top on my boat did not have a level area for fitting. Phoned Boat Electrics at Kip Marina on monday for a Scanstrut bracket as they are agents. On monday they said they would get back to me. Phoned again on Tuesday, they never acknowledged my phone call on Monday, said they would get back to me! Emailed Scanstrut on Tuesday night, I had the bracket delivered from them on Thursday morning. The bracket cost a few squids as one would expect. I thought I would support my local dealer, service zilch! My boss would sack me for missing a sale. Why are boat owners treated like tw*ts?

 

[Graham66]

Unfortunately boss man not a well person at present and currently undergoing a course of treatment so part time office staff are trying to run business not an excuse I know but does throw a bit of light on the subject

 

[Csail]

I know nothing about sat dishes but how does it work on a boat, even moored up the boat moves a little?

 

[colvic987]

Most sat dishes i've seen have been mounted on the pontoon and lead in to the boat, but on a swinging mooring or mounted on boat, i don't think you have any chance of getting a stabilised signal.

If you need it on a boat i would have thought one of these is the only option.
http://www.raymarine.be/products/satellite-television/

I would have thought that freeview would be the easier way to go, using a terrestrial antennae..

 

[jimking]

I have a Portable Satellite Camping System from Maplin. I have the Satellite dish mounted on the pushpit. With normal boat movement the system maintains a steady picture (in strong winds we do get some picture breakup). The small dish size (35cm) is I believe a lot less sensitve to direction than a larger dish. I am currently moored in La Rochelle and was very pleasantly surprised to receive any picture at all, never mind a steady one.

Hope this is of help

 

[pheran]

I use an even smaller (30cm) Kerstan MiniDish mounted on the radar arch. I've been agreeably surprised at the amount of boat movement it will tolerate. Perfect pictures in most of northern Europe.