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04-20-2011, 08:23 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: East Moriches
Posts: 418
M.O.C. #6436
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Setting up portable satelite dish
Don't know it has been thought of but while trying to set up my portable satelite dish I could not hear the beep. Then it hit me! I went to Walmart and picked up a baby monitor for $23.00 plugged it in next to the TV and clipped the reviever to my belt. You can adjust the volume so it doesn't bother anyone else. It is now a one man job!
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04-20-2011, 08:35 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: corning
Posts: 694
M.O.C. #6635
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Great idea! Thanks for sharing it.
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04-20-2011, 09:58 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Tampa
Posts: 532
M.O.C. #10378
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Why not use your external speakers. If you are hooked up right, you can run the outdoor speakers out of the Sat Box into the Stereo. Works great ask your neighbors 5 sites away.
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04-20-2011, 10:10 AM
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Seasoned Camper
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Saint Augustine
Posts: 50
M.O.C. #11321
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I just use the wife's cell. Call mine and set it down by the TV then listen on mine.
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04-20-2011, 10:44 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: St. Clair Shores
Posts: 389
M.O.C. #10151
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Walkie Talkies should work also.
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04-20-2011, 10:53 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Valencia
Posts: 207
M.O.C. #6835
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You guys did it easier than me. I moved the bedroom's Jensen into the basement and watched that tv while I adjusted the dish. It worked really well.
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04-20-2011, 11:26 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: McKinney
Posts: 7,159
M.O.C. #6433
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I use an in-line meter with tone to align mine. Don't have to see or hear the TV. Makes it pretty easy also.
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Riley, our Golden
2007 3075RL (recently sold, currently without)
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04-20-2011, 03:20 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Paola
Posts: 5,739
M.O.C. #4961
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That was a good idea.
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Paola, Kansas
Montana 3735MK Legacy Edition
1200 watts of Solar
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04-21-2011, 03:20 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Cedar Rapids
Posts: 4,876
M.O.C. #1944
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Radio Shack sells a Satellite Finder you can connect in-line with the antenna and peak the signal. Only costs about $30. After you've set it up a few times you can almost set the antenna in the right place.
Orv
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04-21-2011, 04:07 AM
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Seasoned Camper
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Roseville
Posts: 57
M.O.C. #8071
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I really like the baby monitor idea and you could probably even find one at Goodwill or Salvation Army really cheap.
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04-21-2011, 08:23 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Texas City
Posts: 5,736
M.O.C. #7673
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I wish I had thought of the baby monitor idea.
Instead, I went automatic.
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04-21-2011, 04:12 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: North Ridgeville
Posts: 20,229
M.O.C. #2839
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In line sat signal meter and dish pointer information from the directtv website. After you have set it up about 100 times you just sdet the AZ/El point it and the signal is there.
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