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Quote: Originally posted by inthenightgarden on 18/8/2007

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yes , we do , sat mounted on trailer , takes bout 10 mins to get it pointing in the right direction ,

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I've just bought a satellite in a suitcase from maplins costing £69 and a satellite finder from Lidl at £3.99 I have mounted the dish on an old photo tripod and then anchor it down with 3 tent pegs.

It takes about 5-10 minutes to set up and align and if you want you can either use the supplied receiver with which you can get numerous satellites (only 1 at a time though) or take your sky box and card with you.

I've just got back from our first family trip, and i got the maplins satellite case but i had nowhere to put the dish. I was planning on putting it on the car roof with the suckers provided, but that meant taking it off and re-aligning it every time we went out (very annoying!) So i thought about the tripod idea but didn't know which one.

John&lynn - had a look at your tripod, looks rather high how stable is it?

taralabradog - Can you link me to a tripod like yours so i can have look please.