jvalich wrote:
I don't mean to hijack your thread, but for me, I get out on the water and away to other locations to get away from all the craziness, I don't care to bring it with me...like tv
To each his own. We use it to watch a Netflix DVD now and then. Broadcast reception is pretty dismal, and so's the programming. But from time to time it's nice to watch a DVD.
The TV location down in the cabin isn't all that comfortable to watch. It's mounted too high. It would a bit more comfortable to be able to relax in the cockpit seating, with the short legs on the table creating the sunpad. Same thing with being able to watch from the berth.
I did manage to solve the poor TV reception that's plagued this boat. Turns out the wire connecting to the antenna itself (up on the arch) was bad. I tested this by bringing a 50' coax cable on board. I ran that temporarily from the antenna directly to the TV. The amp was fine, as was the cabling from the TV back through the gunwale (thankfully). But not the cable up from the engine room through the arch. Up at the antenna itself I stripped it back about 4" and put an actual crimped connector on it (instead of the screw-on type). Lo and behold it now gets several broadcast TV channels. Which are crap, but at least now I know what was keeping it from working properly.
I may actually replace the whole arch cable at some point. I found the better quality, albeit longer, temporary cable provided slightly better picture quality. But that's pretty low on the To Do list.
So if I can rig up a reasonably attractive (or at least "not ugly") mount for it in both locations it's just one more way we'd enjoy the boat. Would I demand this feature be present when shopping for a new boat? No, nor would I go out of my way to order it as an option. But if it was present or part of some other package it wouldn't be something that kept me from buying the boat. Like all distractions in life, you get to choose. Some folks have different choices, and that's fine by me.