Anser portable dish

If you have any questions at all just let me know. However, I suspect you will be up and running in no time.

I'm going to venture out and buy one tomorrow..we'll see what happens.

It is unfortunate that those who don't know what they are talking about can still pass judgement. The Anser is anything BUT a piece of junk. It is, however, misunderstood (poor little Anser!).
As mentioned above, the Anser is a semi-automatic antenna (Winegard calls it a hybrid automatic) and it does take a tiny bit of user intervention but the savings make this extremely worthwhile.
The antenna will work with DirecTV or Dish and you can connect multiple receivers or a DVR and the model is not important other than the new DirecTV Genie or H25 receivers. These do work but requires additional DirecTV SWM hardware.
In any case, you get where you are going, connect the Anser to your receiver(s) and set the elevation by lining up the arrow on the top half with the numbers on the bottom half. This takes about 2 seconds. It comes with a paper chart showing what elevation setting to used based upon your location or you can download a free app for your smart phone and based upon your current GPS location you will be provided with that information.
Now, plug in the Anser and wait for the receiver single meter to show you are locked onto the satellite and then unplug the Anser and watch TV. It must be unplugged (the misunderstood part) after locating the satellite and it can then be forgotten about. It will remain fixed on that satellite until you are ready to move again.

We got our Anser last October. We went to CW expecting to purchase a more expensive, more "automatic" unit. The Wingard specialist happened to be in the store that day. DH was adamant that he needed a dish that automatically found the satellite. He as prepared and expected to pay $$$ for it. The Wingard man told us that the Anser, although new, was very simple to use. He was absolutely RIGHT. Pros: ease of use; flexibility in placing it where it is most effective; compact nature of sat. for packing; very easy to handle; speed of set up; quality of picture received; allows for the use of 2 different tvs to view different programs at same time; HD or not HD, no problem; As far as we know, compatible with Dish, DirectTV, and one from Canada. Cons: None we have encountered so far, and we have used it dozens of times since purchase. We would highly recommend it to anyone.

I got one a couple of months ago and have only used it once, but I was pretty happy with it. It's semi automatic in that you set the elevation of your location (simple), and the unit then finds and fine tunes the satellite. It has the capability of watching different programs on separate tv's, although only on one satellite; fine for me because everything I watch is on 119 for dish. Also HD capable. For the price, I think I'll be happy with it. Oh yeah, also can use the dual tuner dvr I already had, so didn't have to get a different box.