Jig organizing Dish Connections

[ImagesThatSing]

We are going to try our remote Dish on a tripod for the first time tomorrow, and I am wondering if any of you have rigged a jig to hold the cables in place at your house or in your RV, so that when we bring a receiver back and hook it up we don't have to look all over for dropped down cables and connections.

I am thinking something maybe out of wood to hold the cable in, and the two sets of video/audio cables out at home, so when I get back, they are waiting in the right spot on the entertainment center for easy connection. Same For the RV.



Anyone rigged something for this purpose for ease of substituting receiver from home to RV and Back?



Thanks in advance for ideas, thoughts, etc.

 

[Ron Bissett]

You could use a screw eye just open enough to go around the 59 or RG 6 cable this is after screwing it in to where you want to keep it use of quick pull type F connector will speed the placement too. A little dielectric grease will keep moisture out and keep contact in good shape

 

[Jumbo Jet]

Find a friend that just switched over from Dish to cable and buy their receiver/smart card for about $50 and add it to your service for $5 extra a month. Then you can leave it in your RV all hooked up.



I came up with two receiver/smart cards doing just that. No swapping.

 

[klenger]

You can buy a 2nd system new for around $80.

 

[ImagesThatSing]

All good Ideas

Thanks for your input.

Well, we have some reasons for doing it this way as you might have guessed.



First we have pvr, and if we take the pvr with us, we have all the features of that unit,(stop action while walking dogs, then start again for live broadcast etc) plus the saved movies and entertainment. Next I am not sure I want to pay a recurring fee for a service I already have and can only use at one place at one time. Maybe I am a bit funny that way, but that is the same reason I have stopped other services who charged me a non use fee. We have 2 receivers now, and the labor with a jig at each end of taking it outside, then back in should be fairly minimal.



Now if we hit the lottery, then we will get this and the backup camera, gauges, on and on and on, and all the other really fine goodies the bombers suggest



Thanks again guys, actually the setting up and taking down of the dish will be much more of a challenge I suspect. I built adjustable plates to attach to the legs of this tripod out of 1/8" steel and some large carriage bolts and wing nuts. the guy who sold me the dish and the tripod, said he just digs to level. Hmmm, especially since the reading that I have done that says the dish 500 really needs to be plumb to work.



It will be an adventure this wekend I am sure.

 

[TboneMan]

A variation of what has already been said:



Get a second dish, and just use one of your existing recievers. My father-in-law does this with his camp in the mountains.



He just puts the receiver in a box and hauls it up to camp. There he has a dish and cable already mounted. THis is much simpler than mounting and remounting the dish and the cost much less than having to pay for additional receivers.

 

[ImagesThatSing]

Right,

Well I already have the second dish mounted on the tripod with adjusting levelers and everything else ready for the Travel trailer, so the only remaining item is to make the connecting and unconnecting of the pvr receiver unit as quick and easy as possible. I have to cart groceries n cameras n computers n stuff out there anyway, so the trip out and back to the trailer is the same. Just looking for a way to group the phonoplugs and coax so I don't have to go fishin' for it both in the RV and @ home.