tvman44
Southwest Louisiana
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I use a Winegard Tripod #TR3500 TR3500
Solid and very stable, just get it level (easy to do and tighten the legs so it does not move) and put on dish and adjust. We use it all the time. 
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Bearnkat
Fort Worth, Texas
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I too use an "Align-A-Site" and highly recommend it. Once you get it installed and mounted, setup of your dish is a snap! I just use a regular Winegard tripod with a marine 10# "mushroom" weight to stabilize.
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Bumpyroad
Virginia
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at $150 for the alignasight plus a fancy tripod, you will be about half way to a vue cube.
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bingoldsby
Oregon State Parks - somewhere
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Jerry,
I fashioned my camera tripod to mount up my satellite dish. It works just wonderful for me. It collapses into a very small and lightweight unit. With the legs un-extended, it sits low and is very stable. Generally, I use a cork-screw anchor (like awning anchors) to tie it down. Or a jug of water will do fine most times.
I had the pipe that the dish mounts onto cut off to about 8 or 10 inches and a plate welded to one end with a hole tapped for the threaded stud that is on the top of the tripod.
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TXiceman
(Near) Houston,TX
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Another vote for the Bullseye...best thing around and it is rock stable.
Ken
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jaycocamper62301
Illinois
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I was camping over the miserably wet Mother's day weekend and my dish 500 and berger surveyor's tripod worked flawless. When I broke down the tripod I had water coming out of the holes where the tripod legs were. I have a hard time thinking the bullseye stake would work.
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wxtoad
Sturbridge MA
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It seems to me you folks are making this an expensive and complicated problem to solve. There are much simpler and cheaper solutions. You can make a simple little take-apart PVC stand for $5.00 and use any old dish you can scrounge up. When setting up, the stand does NOT have to vertical and level; you merely need to know the azimuth and by using a signal meter it's a breeze to lock in the signal. I have ours set up and operational in 5-10 minutes. For travel it is small and lightweight. The only negative is that my approach works with only one satellite at a time, but that's ok for us, everything we watch on our Dish system is from Sat 119.
Here are the details of my set-up:
www.toad.fobria.com/index.asp?page=LD/rfdish.htm
Good luck.
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mrb188
Kane, PA
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I use a tripod like the type that you mount a tv antenna to the roof with. Simply drilled out the foot holes to accept landscape timber nails and easily adjusts enough when placed on fairly level ground to compensate. As far as easy aquisition and precision, if you do it enough save the time and headache and purchase a birdog meter. These are pre programmed for any satellite DirecTV or Dish Network and give you a positive lock with no mistake. No more turning up the sound on the TV to listen to the annoying beeps! birdog meter Can find fairly cheap on ebay. Older models require a DB9 serial port for update and new ones use USB. I have a 34' Keystone bunkhouse and rewired for antenna, cable or satellite throughout at each outlet using diplexers. Setup now only takes about 5 mins at most. Good luck.
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