Recent content by vjgkam

drats I had guys telling me they were getting 7-8 hours off one battery. maybe the thing to do is buy two....let one drain and hook up the other. That will give me 6 hours. Then, put the first on the jumper cables for 15 - 20 minutes and hopefully get another 1-2 out it. We normally tailgate...

thanks papalittle, I'm thinking of buying another battery and using two at future tailgates. How long (using jumper cables from a car) would you expect it to take to fully re-charge the battery if it drained all the way down??

After a lot of research and help from a number of forums such as this one, I decided to set up a satellite dish at a tailgate last wekend for the Penn Stare game. I have a deep cycle marine battery for power, and a 400 watt Black and Decker power invertor. I used my RCA DirecTv 40gb Tivo...

Guys, Thanks for the replies. Ilive about 200 miles from where we tailgate, so the azimuth and elevation are not the same. The elevation is on the dish ( think), but how do I set the azimuth?? Am I making sense...or not??

Hi all, I'm setting up my dish for the first time this year at my tailgate parties in State College PA. I've ordered a seperate 18" round dish, and have adequate cables and power supply. Do I need a tripod? All this means nothing if I can't get the dish pointed correctly, and I have absolutely...

Ok, I'm sure this will appear as a totally newbie question, but here goes: I have a DirectTv dish with 2 receiver capability. I want to expand to 3 receivers, and was told that a multiltap, or multiswitch can handle this. I share one of my dishes with 2 tv's and it's becoming a pain. Any...