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Thinking about installing the KVH-M1 or M3 Sat TV systems on my vessel. Just wondering what experiences anybody out there may have regarding reception while in a covered slip. It would be a no go if I had no chance of obtaining signal while docked in the slip. The roof is relatively high, but still, it's a roof over the antenna.

Anybody have experience with this or similar units under similar circumstances?

Thanks in advance.
 
No experience, but I would imagine you will have issues.
All the books say unencumbered view of sky.
Get a compass, put it where you will put the dish.
Use this link to locate the satellite you will tap into
http://www.dishpointer.com/
Put your head where the dish will be.
If you can't see the sky, your screwed.
 
I would agree with the previous post. I have the intellian i2 and am very happy with it but the dish itself is much smaller than the one I have at home. My home dish had to be moved because a tree with very few branches grew into just a portion of the line of sight of the satellites. They are pretty sensitive and I don't see anyway they will go through a covering on a slip. Another option would be to have a fixed dish mounted on the roof of your slip with a switch to select between the boat dish or the fixed dish. You would just want to make sure the switch could handle the band width.
 
Yeah, common sense would say that any obstruction would prove problematic. Just wanted to see if there was an outside chance it may work....at least in some instances.

CurrentSea......neat site, thanks. KGD......good suggestion, I'll check to see if it is permissible to put up a separate dish. That would certainly work.

Thanks guys.
 
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