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cjweener1
post Mar 22 2017, 11:23 PM
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Ordering up my new Northstar Arrow U and could use some advice. What do folks recommend for TV?
Lot's of options....TV antenna types, Winegard satellite options, etc. We have DirectTV at home and have been happy with this. Northstar will be installing a 12 volt TV for us. What would you recommend we go with and is this something we should install ourselves or have NS do it for us? Hubby has done quite a few satellite installs in houses so if the savings is worth his time...we wouldn't rule out doing the install ourselves. What products work the best and what would you go with if you were in our shoes...er...truck camper:). Thanks for your help!
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cjweener1
post Mar 23 2017, 04:46 PM
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We decided to go with the Winegard G2 plus sat. antenna. Has anyone else had experience with this and did you do a roof mount, ladder mount or keep it portable? How has it performed?

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Jknight611
post Mar 24 2017, 09:37 PM
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Type and Brand of Truck(s) Owned: 2018 Chevolet 3500 Duramax Crew Duelly
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We have the King Jack antenna installed by Northstar and it is amazing! We routinely get 8-10 stations that are actually good. Very little drift in and out. Quite happy with it.
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post Mar 25 2017, 12:05 PM
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I installed a King Jack HDTV antenna on the roof of my camper. It picks up near 25 channels. The antenna I have for my house picks up four or five. It's a simple install and works great. Clear signal and picture.
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post Mar 28 2017, 05:27 PM
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Put the Winegard add-on on my standard rv antenna. Then put on a King Jack. Then switched back to standard bat wind with add-on. Same thing. Absolutely no change at all. Seems to work well for some, but others on the Internet report no change. For me the King Jack was a waste of money.

Just my observations,

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post Apr 4 2017, 06:07 PM
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I used to use dish not anymore, I went with a directional WIFI antenna and booster and great signal at 2500ft, using roku and sling TV. litlte different channel guide but works well and for 20.00 mo you cant go wrong 30 plus channels. If I can use wifi then we turn on wifi on our phone and set the display setting within ruko to 720p 30 days of that and we used 8g of data not bad...
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post Apr 10 2017, 10:01 AM
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we have a 24" in our Arctic Fox. I have it mounted so it can swing and turn for viewing from from dinette or turn it and view it in bed. Than I can rotate it 1/2 turn and lock it against side of dresser cabinet wall in bed area for moving.

1) I have it wired to the roof antenna with Coax. I will turn this on sometimes (than scan for channels) while stopping for night on road.

2) I also have the Winegard X2 satellite dome. this is the only one that has "eastern arc" that we need up in NE USA with Dish Network. I store it on floor behind cab (rear seat is always folded up), than I have a mount I built where this sits on top of RV roof, help down by bungy cords when in use. I run a piece of coax down latter, under camper to SAT jack on DS.

We live in a TV market where our local sports team is the Phillies. The wife loves baseball. But you can't get the Phillies on Dishnetwork because Comcast does not want Satellite providers to be able to compete against them, so we also have to subscribe to Comcast Sportsnet Philadelphia.
Starting this year, Comcast is streaming the phillies games to people who pay for comcast sportsnet over cable. So now with streaming media, we can watch the Phhillies when we are on the Road! (see below)

3) Our TV is a Roku TV, so we can watch streaming media if we can get on a network (but most campgrounds block this). We also have Roku at home so its all on the same account. since we also have Dish network all the stations we want on Roku are free since we already subscribe to them over Dish.
We can use our Cell phones as a wireless access point for the Roku TV, but after 10G they "might" slow down the data.

4) We also have ChromeCast on our Camper TV. this allows us to stream game on phone (unlimited bandwidth account) and "cast" this to the TV.

I can see there will be a request for a 2nd TV for outside use (she loves to sit at beach, outside and watch Phillies at night). So I may but a smaller TV in Generator compartment, using an under counter TV mount that swings down.
I will have to fold up ladder, prop open generator door (no Generator), swing down TV and use the ChromeCast.

Who said camping meant "roughing it"?
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