This is a serious post. I have run into something that I am absolutely certain I can get rich at..........not millions, but a good living. But I'm too lazy. And I retired for a reason.
Anyone could do this.........but (and all the jokes are aside here), Jimbo is someone who would understand this, figure it out, and have the business sense to make it fly.
I'll try to be brief (ha). Bought the travel trailer.......well, I ain't gonna miss the Cardinal games just cause I'm camping~~~~~~ and remember, I have Direct TV in the house now.
So, I get on the Forums for owners of Forest River Trailers..........and it's great by the way.....much info, great folks. And I start asking questions about how to get satellite TV in the trailer. WOW....... Cans of worms are being ordered by the case, and opened up as fast as possible. Folks say this, others say that.
Here are the problems in a nutshell:
-Dish and Direct TV are VERY different in how they do "tailgating" dishes, or portable dishes. Dish is much easier. Direct is much harder. But Direct is what I have. But you can't listen to advice from a guy if he has Dish Network. It ain't even close to the same.
-Inside Direct TV, there's easy and there's hard!!! Easy is non-HD TV. Hard is HD TV!!!!!! Takes a different satellite, and tracking unit, and everything. Takes power to the LNBF separate, takes a lot of stuff. Still, the entire unit is less than $200, so not awful.
-Once you get the satellite dish, you take a Direct TV receiver out of your house, and take it with you. Totally legal per Direct TV. (Take a TV too if needed, but my TT has a TV). However, if that model of receiver has an H in front of it, it's HD and takes a special receiver. Further, if the H is followed by 25 (H25 model), then you are into what is called SWiM technology.....and that is much gooder, much more robust, but much harder to point to the satellites, cause 3 are needed. Still not much more money, just more harder.
-If and when you get all that figured out (and many have done so, it IS doable), there is the issue of the TV in the TT. Mine is HD. It is also a fairly small 12 volt adaptable TV. You want bigger TV? Well, you have to find the right wall mount. Forest River uses proprietary wall mounts made by PAW industries. They are made for VESA 75X75 TV's (that's the small ones). Your TV is 100X100, or 200X200 mount holes??? You got to start over. PLUS, there is no room where the current TV is, to put one much bigger. I can live with that, having a TV is good enough.....but that's a minor issue, and on other campers would be easier to fix. On top of that, there is an a/b switch (of sorts) that goes between coax cable/satellite connection (on side of trailer) and OTA Roof Antenna. That entire booster board that has that switch has to be by passed (for some reason.....unsure yet why, but everyone agreed that this has to be done). That means trailer wiring, and that's hard.
Here's the big issue:
NO ONE ON EARTH KNOWS ABOUT THIS STUFF ENTIRELY. There is no 'source'. Not one dealer I talked to (and I talked at length to several) has a clue. Some sell the Dish Network antenna (the one that automatically finds satellites) but it's Dish, and it's not HD. Ask them a question, and they are lost. Not one guy, including the techs that I talked to AT LENGTH about this, have any idea about it.
Thus, I guarantee you can get rich by forming Jimbo's RV Satellite TV, LLC. I'd do Bucky's RV Satellite TV, LLC if I knew where to find techs and wasn't so lazy, and had any startup capital. Then you just call on RV dealers and get them to refer every new sale to Jimbo's TV for installation assistance with their Satellite TV needs in their new RV. Then you have to learn what they have, how to set them up, how to wire trailers, how to get accounts set up, techs to install it, Help Lines for assistance while they are on the road.... a BIG operation.
But lucrative as heck.
Who's in?
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Originally Posted by Buckrub
