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18/9/2019 at 9:55am
Location: Midlands
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Pitch with electric hookup and a hookup lead with an RCD built in.
Avoid cables that have a standard household strip extension, they are not suitable and could kill someone.
Or a battery powered TV, dont forget a decent antenna also.
If its a mains TV beware condensation and damp mornings.
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18/9/2019 at 11:24am
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Add a USB TV dongle to your laptop, car or solar charge the laptop during the day. The dongle comes with a small aerial but best to upgrade.
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18/9/2019 at 12:22pm
Location: Derby.
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Headphones!
Multiple if required.
Wireless optional.
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19/9/2019 at 7:00am
Location: Staines-upon-Thames
Outfit: Vango Cayman 500
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Tough one that. Our tent’s too big to go up in our living room, and our tv’s too big to fit in a tent that could.
But I can see that it might save on heating bills in the winter.
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20/9/2019 at 11:30pm
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Battery or hookup with lead and RCD
Small low wattage tv
pole and antenna
cable
Also :
A tripod is useful and a monitor stand is way better than the legs supplied with the TV.
Modern camping tv are very low wattage and can run off a decent leisure battery for ever, they also have a 240v input so you can use hookup.
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21/9/2019 at 9:53am
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We use satellite, which would be perfect for U.K. use, although we only go camping in the South of France, so have to use a 1m Dish.
For U.K. use a 35cm Dish is more than adequate, although rather than a Dish, a small Flat Panel satellite antenna will do the job, plenty on eBay at not silly money.
As for the receiver I would go for the Sab Titan Micro, an almost pocket sized unit, than can also work as a PVR, the Titan Micro although not officially a Freesat receiver will pick up all the Freesat channels and more besides.
As for TV we use a Cello 15” LED had that for years but it’s a good un, with HDMI input.
Sounds are taken care of by a pair of Aldi RF wireless headphones, I canabalised the base stations, and put all the gubbins into a plastic box, the size of a match box.
We now have a spare head phone transmitter as the one transmitter will work for as many headphones as you wish, and the actual modified transmitter is a fraction of the size of the original unit.
We just use alkaline batteries in the headphones instead of the supplied two AAA rechargeable’s.
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