DirecTV Help

cm11599ps wrote:
We just bought our parents an HD dish for directv and it came with a compass, coax cable, signal meter and tripod. This will all be used solely for their camper.

Directv just dropped off an additional receiver box for them but it's not activated yet because the new dish wasn't there when the guy came.

Are we going to be able to just hook up the dish to the receiver to get this working? I've been reading about a converter box sometimes being needed. I believe the box they dropped off was an h24.

Any guidance would be awesome! :-)

You say they dropped off an "additional" receiver. Are there any other DirecTV receivers anywhere? If so, hook up this receiver to the coax feeding the existing receiver and get it activated. The converter box you are talking about is a B-Band converter and would only be necessary if you DID NOT buy they a SWM HD antenna. Hopefully, you did and if you did, the BBC is not necessary. They will need HD TV(s) in the RV to take advantage of the H24 and that receiver only has HDMI output for 1 TV so if they have a TV in the bedroom an the living room the receiver will only be able to provide HD to one TV but you may have the wiring available to send an SD signal to the 2nd TV without having to rewire the coach.
If you don't have any other DirecTV boxes then you are going to want to connect that receiver to the antenna properly setup on the tripod and then learn how to point one of these things. It's very difficult at first and it gets easier and easier the more often you do it. Once you (your parents) learn how to break-down, setup and aim the antenna is should take less than 30 minutes at each new location. It might take you a couple of hours the first time. I suggest that you download the Augmented Reality App (Dish Pointer or Dish Pointer Pro) as this will show you exactly where to point the antenna and the correct elevation to set the antenna.