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I've got a 2000W Chinese clone of a Honda generator that I bought at Costco a couple years ago for around $500. It's made by Champion Power Equipment, and it's been rock solid. It's only 2-3 decibels louder than the Honda, and once you stick it at the front of your car and run an extension cord you'll never hear it. I think that they've even introduced a newer model that's quieter and a little cheaper than mine. I've also bought an extra DirecTV dish, and then I just bring the receiver from my guest room with me to the tailgate. I've got one of the fancy new receivers, which means that I can't use one of the awesome auto-aligning dishes. If you're using an older box, I'd pony up for a VuQube (or something similar) so you don't have to dick around with getting the dish lined up for a half hour. I replaced all of the nuts on the dish with wingnuts so that I can disassemble the thing without a wrench for packing up. It sits on a fencepost that I bought from Lowe's, and then that goes into an antenna tripod from Radio Shack. If it's extra windy, I'll sit something heavy on the feet of the tripod. We've had the generator powering a 32" LCD TV, the satellite box and power injector, a speaker, a fan, some lights, and two Crockpots for hours and hours with no issues. It's really awesome.
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