I would be interested on hearing how some of you have secured your pods when outside. The cable eyelet just does not seem secure. Not trying to hijack the thread but since we are all talking about the Cube or Tailgater it would be a good time. I could start a new thread if needed. I was thinking of going with the ladder mount but adapting somehow for portable use. Less expensive method would be nice.
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When placing it on the ground, I DO use the cable eyelet and a cable, wrapped around something solid (like a tree). Otherwise, it's on the ladder mount, with a padlock.
If someone wants it bad enough, they will get it. It's of little use without the cabling and controls, so I doubt it'll walk away, unless someone is just trying to be destructive.
Anyway, I've had the VuCube out all winter on a picnic table, secured to a nearby tree and nobody has as much as touched it.
1L243 wrote: I would be interested on hearing how some of you have secured your pods when outside. The cable eyelet just does not seem secure. Not trying to hijack the thread but since we are all talking about the Cube or Tailgater it would be a good time. I could start a new thread if needed. I was thinking of going with the ladder mount but adapting somehow for portable use. Less expensive method would be nice.
Thanks
Thanks.
Paul & Sandra
New Bedford, MA
2003 Monaco Executive M43 DS2
1L243 wrote: I would be interested on hearing how some of you have secured your pods when outside. The cable eyelet just does not seem secure. Not trying to hijack the thread but since we are all talking about the Cube or Tailgater it would be a good time. I could start a new thread if needed. I was thinking of going with the ladder mount but adapting somehow for portable use. Less expensive method would be nice.
Thanks
Thanks.
Here is something that worked tying my airplane down in heavy winds and only cost $3.00
Get a screw in "Doggie Tether" at Wal*Mart or any pet store. It is a cork screw about 18 inches long with a triangle handle on top. Screw that in the ground and wrap your cable lock through the handle then the potable dish cable eye. I use a bicycle combination cable lock so I don't have to worry about keys.
I have had my Cessna 182 tied down in 50 MPH winds and it didn't budge using "Doggy Tethers".
Chuck
02 Travel Supreme, 2 street side slides
09 Toyota Tacoma 2WD
I have had the Tailgater for 6 mos now. Only with some heavy rain did we have a signal problem and as others have said, no different than an open face dish. I mounted the tailgater to a piece of 3/4" exterior grade plywood (kept rubber legs), painted it and set it on top of our ladder. Two small u-bolts around the ladder through the plywood. If we are in a park or wherever for a short time, I can set it on the roof (piece of rubber under) with a wire or bungee cord around the ladder. If I set it on the ground, I run a cable between the plywood and bottom of cube, more secure than the eyelet on the cube. Works for me.
This hilites the biggest shortcoming of the tailgater for those of us in the northeast. DISH western arc sats are very low on the horizon for us, which can make them very difficult to "see". Hopefully, there is an eastern arc tailgater in the future plans.
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robsouth wrote: That satellite signal travels thousands of miles, a few more feet to the ground or a picnic table, etc. ain't gonna matter.
Want to bet! When I first got my Tailgator, I tried it out in the back yard. Could not get a signal. Pulled my Jetta out back and put the Tailgator on the back trunk, and picked up a signal just fine, in the very same spot! Gave me just enough elevation to see over the ridge of the hill that blocked the signal!
Just got back from Florida, and was not able to use the Tailgator at any of the sites I was parked on because trees blocking the southern sky. Had the Tailgater been mounted to the top of my motorhome, I "might" have been able to receive a signal. but had super "over the air" reception everywhere!
robsouth wrote: That satellite signal travels thousands of miles, a few more feet to the ground or a picnic table, etc. ain't gonna matter.
Want to bet! When I first got my Tailgator, I tried it out in the back yard. Could not get a signal. Pulled my Jetta out back and put the Tailgator on the back trunk, and picked up a signal just fine, in the very same spot! Gave me just enough elevation to see over the ridge of the hill that blocked the signal!
Just got back from Florida, and was not able to use the Tailgator at any of the sites I was parked on because trees blocking the southern sky. Had the Tailgater been mounted to the top of my motorhome, I "might" have been able to receive a signal. but had super "over the air" reception everywhere!
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robsouth wrote: That satellite signal travels thousands of miles, a few more feet to the ground or a picnic table, etc. ain't gonna matter.
Want to bet! When I first got my Tailgator, I tried it out in the back yard. Could not get a signal. Pulled my Jetta out back and put the Tailgator on the back trunk, and picked up a signal just fine, in the very same spot! Gave me just enough elevation to see over the ridge of the hill that blocked the signal!
Just got back from Florida, and was not able to use the Tailgator at any of the sites I was parked on because trees blocking the southern sky. Had the Tailgater been mounted to the top of my motorhome, I "might" have been able to receive a signal. but had super "over the air" reception everywhere!
Rain will not affect the internal's however with enclosed models it may prevent you from acquiring a picture. This is one known drawback for enclosed models.
Just a thought, but are they talking about rain fade ? That's common with all satellite dishes because it increases the density of the air, making it 'thicker' for the signal to penetrate. When the sat is transmitting with only 50W and with the dish being so small, it makes sense that weather might knock it out temporarily.
ADAD, satellite dishes don't use a ground plane. Presumably it's because the Ku wavelength is around 20GHz and they're (extremely!) directional antennas, but I'll leave that for someone with more RF knowledge than me.
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