Satellite on Pod

We had Satellite TV in two of our larger TTs and a motorhome in the past but once we moved to Florida, we switched to cable.  Our motorhome had a rather sophisticated dish, but the pods exteriors (and interiors) would make it very difficult, if not impossible, to use a permanently mounted dish.  And, these are unforgiving if your campsite is in or near trees that could block the signal. 

Even with our motorhome, we often had to use a portable dish and had to locate it outside our site, providing the campers in an adjacent site did not mind another dish in their area.  Portable dishs are pretty straight-forward in terms of equipment requirements.  We always carried our portable mount, a DIRECTV dish, a heading compass, a level, a signal meter, and 25 and 100 foot lengths of coax cable. 

In this day and age, I would never go through the hassle of carrying and setting up a satellite system since most campgrounds now provide cable service.  If not, you can usually pull in several stations using the pod's antenna. 

If you are dry camping, forget the satellite unless you are prepared to use  a power-hungry inverter or a portable generator.  I would prefer to just use the pod's TV antenna and a 12 volt TV.

DishTV offers the "Tailgater" auto-aligning antenna module.  We invested in one before realizing the

No system is going to be better than any other when it comes to reception.. it's an all digital signal.. it either can get through to the dish.. or it can't. The only way to improve reception is with a larger dish... something you can't do with a portable.