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I am a user of the Starband system via a portable tripod such as surveyers use to mount the dish. These systems are available from several dealers and for both Starband and Directway. The advantage of Starband for a tripod mounted dish is the fact that they allow the owner to take training and be certified as a registered installer and thus allow you to move and set up your own dish, with their acknowledgment and their technical support. With Directway, portables are not accepted as a customer and it is in violation of the user's contract to take down and reset a dish on a portable tripod. The use of an automatic, roof mounted dish is acceptable to either. But the roof mount system costs about $4500 and it will not work if you park in heavy shade or next to a building. The tripod mounts can be moved to point to the satelite as needed, just as a portable dish for TV can be moved by the owner. If you do this using Directway, they could at some future time shut you off as a user with no recourse, since you are in violation of the user agreement. With Starband, if you take the installer course, on line, and get certified to install, there is no such violation of policy and thus you will have no problems of relocating. If you visit the link:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~flicka15/contactus.html
you will be in contact with RV Sat Link a dealer who will sell you the equipment needed and provide the training for Satrband use as a certified installer. He also supplies test equipment that includes a meter that will locate and identify all satelites(37 of them). It will help to locate the proper bird and to make sure your dish is set up to work properly and not conflict with other users, which could mean that the service would shut you off.
There are many dealers out there to sell you equipment and happily take your money, but RV Sat Link will give you the support that you need and train you so that you can get technical support direct from Starband. I strongly reccomend them!