KVH Trackvision in motion sat dish will become obsolete!

Mine is still working. 8-4-2015

Our system is still working just fine. Trip to Fla last summer and once we got south of Richmond, it held the signal and would reacquire if lost. But, in order to acquire the signal the first time, we may have to push the button to move it back into search mode, on average 3-5 times.

Still using the same receivers DirecTV sent me in 2013 while we were at Fort Wilderness when I made posted my original response.

11B is 100% right. Those guys are reading a script, not intelligently analyzing your problems.

We "had" a tracvision R4, with a Dish 211k receiver.

It SUCKED. Couldn't get a signal anywhere that had a tree within a quarter mile. And switching satelites, forget it....

I googled, I searched, I bought cables and hooked my laptop to it. no matter, it ALWAYS took me more time to get a signal than it was worth.

Fast forward... Bought a Trav'ler from PPL for $1200 shipped, screwed it to the roof. I power that bad boy up, it has locked onto all 3 dish satelites within 90 seconds. Trees? Rain? Hail or snow? it don't care. LOCKED ON.

Best $1200 I ever spent (that I can recall right now)

Still working as of june 2015

I will have 2 try out my Trac vision ant. As it is in suspend mode right now. I love 2 drive and watch TV as I travel.

I get a kick out of you guys and DTV tech support. You are talking to a bunch of collage kids that work part time for a large Global company that operates DTV and many other major companies support call centers.

Once you ask your question of them they can only type it in a computer and read back to you what info it gives them right or wrong.

If you called in 10 times with the same question but asked it 10 different ways you'd get 10 different answers.

I know this to be fact because my son has been a VP of call center operations all over the world for this company for the last ten years.

If you call for tech support for Microsoft, Verizon, Direct TV and a 100 other major companies this is what your getting.

Take a look at the antenna itself and it should have a label somewhere with a number or manufacturer. If that doesn't work, take a picture and post it here for a good start on what you have.
You can also look at the controller inside and take a picture or give a good description and we can likely tell you what you have. It may just be difficult to give you an exact age.

My friend just bought a rig with a sat already installed. however, the dealer did not have any info on it. the rig is a 2008, so, we figure it maybe isnt too old.

So, how does one tell what kind of sat it is?

The L2 and new receiver worked amazingly well on the road. Seemed to find the right satellite rather quickly if it lost the signal. Had to press the button maybe five times on the day we left Florida to find the right signal and if it lost it during the drive north, it reacquired it quickly without having to press the locate button.

Once we got into Virginia, finding the satellite was a challenge so we didn't use it the rest of the trip.

The satellite is higher in the sky, the further south you go. We don't really use the in-motion while on the road in the northeast much, but we're fine with it once we're parked with this new system.

Not spending $2000 on a newer model so this will serve us just fine, going forward. :)

My L2 works well with the old old old obsolete Phillips DSX-5500 receiver which has a aiming tone. DTV will provide cards for them.