Another Direct TV question
OK....so we're long time Direct TV customers but with HD TV prices so low now, we're thinking about trying to get it in the mh without the roof top dish price. We finally upgraded at home to the Genie...
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I assumed it would be more difficult but it really isn't, especially if you have practice with obtaining the original SD signal. I purchased the same HD sat we have at home from Ebay and mounted it on the very same homemade stand the 18" round dish used for years.
Using our receiver and zipcode/city where we are camping we set the sat dish parameters accordingly and just use a compass to acquire sat 101 like we did for years for the standard SD signal. If mast is relatively level and settings for hd dish are properly set the rest of the satellites come right in. A bit of minor tweaking to get a 90% or better signal and we're good to go.
Whole process takes about 5 minutes if there are no obstructions to the southern sky, maybe 15 minutes if having to shoot between the trees. There are devices that can help with that situation and smartphone apps that have specifics for pointing your dish and a compass that can simplify the process.
Since we RV predominately in the 4 corner states we rarely have to adjust dish parameters, using just our smartphone apps I can get the dish pointed pretty close to spot on without even having the receiver fired up. Like anything else in life it takes a bit of practice to master, once you get the hang of it and find a routine that works for you it simply becomes part of the set-up process we all have when arriving to our destination.
Using our receiver and zipcode/city where we are camping we set the sat dish parameters accordingly and just use a compass to acquire sat 101 like we did for years for the standard SD signal. If mast is relatively level and settings for hd dish are properly set the rest of the satellites come right in. A bit of minor tweaking to get a 90% or better signal and we're good to go.
Whole process takes about 5 minutes if there are no obstructions to the southern sky, maybe 15 minutes if having to shoot between the trees. There are devices that can help with that situation and smartphone apps that have specifics for pointing your dish and a compass that can simplify the process.
Since we RV predominately in the 4 corner states we rarely have to adjust dish parameters, using just our smartphone apps I can get the dish pointed pretty close to spot on without even having the receiver fired up. Like anything else in life it takes a bit of practice to master, once you get the hang of it and find a routine that works for you it simply becomes part of the set-up process we all have when arriving to our destination.
