Needs a good reasonably priced Sat Finder/Meter

[daveh505@comcast.net]

I need to replace my ElCheapo Sat finder/meter. I will use it only when I setup in my RV.

What would all you good people recommend that is reasonably priced ($30 or so) ?

 

[papalittle]

Try looking on E-bay or Amazon.com

 

[boba]

For $30 your not going to find much better than the el cheapo meter you already have.

 

[daveh505@comcast.net]

Try looking on E-bay or Amazon.com

If I knew which ones were the good ones I would do that. I need more than the obvious help. I need the name of a tried and trusted meter.

 

[daveh505@comcast.net]

For $30 your not going to find much better than the el cheapo meter you already have.

I dont mind spending a bit more for a sure thing. I just hate paying for more meter than I need. The meter might be used 5 to 10 times a year.

 

[HIFI]

what dish are you trying to aim? dish 500? 1k.4? EA? WA?

 

[daveh505@comcast.net]

what dish are you trying to aim? dish 500? 1k.4? EA? WA?

1000.2 and a 1000.4 WA

 

[gwdave]

OK, what I use is a WINEGARD Satellite finder meter. Camping World $29.95. I ordered a 500 dish kit from Satellite Guys.com a Utah based company. The kit came with a piece of junk meter, looked like a winegard however it does not work. I used my winegard to set the antenna up, took just a few minutes. I found that with my VIP211K box even turned off, I have 18volts for setup of the antenna.... The antenna has a graduated scale for elevation, and skew. I set the antenna according to those settings then I use a compass to set the azimuth.... I have a stick on a string, I get the azimuth then set the stick on the ground then aim the dish to the stick...... I found that this puts me in the ball park so getting the high point on the meter is then a piece of cake.... I have done the setup on my new dish twice, and both times the way I described worked great.... I know that with the 500 antenna, I don't get HD, or local channels however when I am camping all I need is TV for the wife, as she has to have the noise while trying to go to sleep at night........

 

[vash1090]

I have a Sat Buddy v.1 that I don't use anymore. It's good unless you can find something else under $50 that will do an internal switch.

 

[gpflepsen]

Minitracker gives signal indications for two inputs. It may be the same as Accutrac22 MKII.

It may work much better than one of those $20 finders. If they work like they say, it could be worth the $100 if you set dishes on a somewhat frequent basis.