SelfsatCamp 38 Flat Aerial for Camping Car

I am a long-time Selfsat fan, we've been using their H30D2 for a few years with our caravans and motorhomes so getting the Camp 38 made sense and was good value. I intended using this replacing the existing Status 470 terrestrial aerial, first thing you notice is that Status uses a 42mm hole, the Camp 38 needs a 55mm hole so you will need to enlarge it. Another thing you notice is the height of the Camp 38 pole indoors when retracted or lowered (travelling) makes it OK to use in some tall lockers but other lockers (like above a fridge freezer) are more height limiting, so check you have enough height clearance to fit it (I can't recall but I think it needs at least 85 cm down from the roof for clearance). It also needs to be at least 95mm away from an internal vertical wall as the supplied clamping bracket that extends needs that distance as a minimum. It would be nice to have a short version bracket available when you install it closer to internal walls.The use of the Camp 38 antenna best needs some experience or practice, and you must have a very good idea of where you need to point it. Manually setting the azimuth, elevation and skew (nice and easy to adjust but only markings for elevation degrees and a rough one for skew which is not critical) might be frustrating for some users as motorhome attitude will obviously have an affect on settings and there is no azimuth scale inside to guide you. I would suggest a good signal meter is essential to reduce setting time and frustration levels and I might calibrate the elevation scale with a home made label.It is a single LNB output with a very long grey RG174 cable and fitted F connectors which I might replace with RG142 which should improve signal levels. As it is, the signal for UK Freesat in NE Scotland works OK (Astra 28.2 deg), so perhaps I don't need to change the cable at the moment unless we intended travelling down through France. One good thing is that the small cable is able to fit in the roof D-section strips, so you can easily run across the roof if you need to hide the cable.There is a larger antenna (Camp 50) available if you need it but we get on OK with the smaller 38 version for our UK trips. If I was going to improve it, I would make it use a 40mm hole, and reduce the overall pole length by 10cms, finally making the standard dual LNB would be good as well. Take care not to drop the antenna as our H30D2 has suffered from damaged corners by being dropped a few times in transit but it still works OK once the holes are filled with plastic putty.Update:After 2 1/2 years use, the only thing which went wrong is the rear rubber bellows which covers the elevation mechanism, this has split in a few places. This would let water in if the antenna is in the elevated position. Hopefully our supplier can source a replacement....