Rather than starting another tailgating thread......hopefully a simple question, but is there a specific deep cycle marine battery or category (group) I need to power a tv setup? I'm probably going to buy 2 to get about 3 hours out of each of them...if that helps. Any help would be greatly...

I'm hoping so Cincy. I'm going to use a Phase 3 dish. I'm not sure if that will be able to pick it up or not, but if you're picking it up 180 miles away for a major market I guess there's hope for me picking up Philly.

Ok it looks like my locals from Reading come in on network 658.. satellite: SATs@101W while the State College locals are network 608 and satellite is D1R@73W. Hopefully i took the right info there. Haha No idea what that means though if you can translate. I don't care about my Philly...

140 miles driving....I would say drawing a straight line on a map about 90-100 miles. I didn't set up my account yet, so I have no idea what sat my locals are on. Is there a place I can go to find out? It looks like for my zip code (Reading) it says Philly channels and in State College it...

hmmm it's about 140 miles so there's no real way of knowing if I could pick up the locals othat than trying once I'm there?....any suggestions on a good OTA antenna if I have to go that route?

Well I think I'm just going to open up my own account here in PA and go SD until I get the hang of things this year, but my make or break question is will I be able to get my locals at the tailgate? Is there anywhere I can go to find out or anyone on here that can tell me? I live in Reading...

Hey Twizt, I sent you a PM then

That's why I'm looking for help. I knew it wasn't going to be cheap or easy to do. If a slimline is that much more difficult would you suggest going with a standard dish? Is it something that with practice you can do without issues? I had planned on practicing with it several times before the...

Oh ok....I was confused. I remember when watching tv from her house you would pick up some local Vermont channels (NBC,CBS, etc), but you would also pick up some national network channels like a random LA NBC and a NY CBS. But what you're saying is that regardless of whether they're from Vermont...

Yeah, I saw the Sat-Go units but for the price and screen size I think I'm going to try my own. Not living in Vemont I could care less about her local channels. Again this will sound stupid but I honestly have no idea how it works......if I don't pick up her locals what will i receive? Will...

Hey all, Brand new to the board and satellites. It seems like you guys all really know your stuff so I figured someone could help me out. I'm thinking about a setup for my tailgate at Penn State games this year, but need to find out if it's actually feasible or just a pipe dream...