Around where I live they have tons of direct tv dishes that are not being used I'm thinking of getting dish network pay as you go package and need to find satellite dish and reciever I know from what I have read that the feed horns or Lnbs on this direct tv dish won't work on the dish network reciever but what if I change the lnbs to dish network ones would they work on the direct tv dish I know the lnbs or different but are the dish them selves diferrent or close to being the same if I can make that work I will build a stand for the dish and buy the receiver that is compatible with the lnbs

I got one of these portable dish for my HOME DIRECTV acct. This has a compass on it and also AZ marks etc. Being flat on the bottom it sit on my truck folding hard plastic bed cover just fine. being on my truck always reminded me to store the dish before leaving the area.This one came with a two port head for DIRECTV.AS you can see you can wind up a good couple hundred feet of RG6 antenna cable. It also mounts to to almost anything. It also folds up for storage while in route.I also got one of these TONE meters to help me loocate the satellite...I would run one RG cable port to the living room TV area and the second RG cable port to the bedroom area. Here I would hookup to a SAT RCVR I brought along with me from home.The I would hook the VIDEO OUTPUT cables of the SAT RCVR to the VIDEO INPUTS on my VIZIO 22-INCH HDTV.Now I can watch SAT TV or CABLE/OTA TV by using the TV remotes.Did this for a few years and then when the NATL BROADCAST TV came out with their digital HDTV signals from the local town I quit bringing along my SAT TV STUFF.The OTA NATL BROADCAST TV from the local towns is high def TV mode and much better on the eyes than the standard satellite was..Roy Ken

What Roy has posted is NOT a good OPTION for an ANTENNA USED with the DISH service. DirecTV uses only one satellite to provide ALL of the StAnDaRd Def. programming so you could use that KIND of an antenna with DirecTV without much issue (except no HDTV).For Dish, you NEED a multiple LNB antenna or a dome style auto pointing antenna for reception of all of the Dish programming.You need to figure out what's important to you. If you want to make it cheap and easy that means you need to have a DTV account and a simple to setup antenna but you will not get any of the HDTV programming. If you must have HD then you either need a Winegard Trav'ler roof mount unit or a tripod based home antenna for DirecTV. However, you could use a dome style automatic with Dish Network or manually point one of their home style multiple LNB antennas.Confused? Let us know.

You can get a new 1000.2 dish with 3 LNBs, tripod, cables, compass, meter, etc. for Dish Network for a little over $100. Check the web.

I have several old antennas free for asking, PM me.

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RoyB
Explorer II
Jun 26, 2014
X2 what BILL says...
Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Jun 26, 2014
What Roy has posted is NOT a good OPTION for an ANTENNA USED with the DISH service. DirecTV uses only one satellite to provide ALL of the StAnDaRd Def. programming so you could use that KIND of an antenna with DirecTV without much issue (except no HDTV).
For Dish, you NEED a multiple LNB antenna or a dome style auto pointing antenna for reception of all of the Dish programming.
You need to figure out what's important to you. If you want to make it cheap and easy that means you need to have a DTV account and a simple to setup antenna but you will not get any of the HDTV programming. If you must have HD then you either need a Winegard Trav'ler roof mount unit or a tripod based home antenna for DirecTV. However, you could use a dome style automatic with Dish Network or manually point one of their home style multiple LNB antennas.
Confused? Let us know.
RoyB
Explorer II
Jun 26, 2014
I got one of these portable dish for my HOME DIRECTV acct. This has a compass on it and also AZ marks etc. Being flat on the bottom it sit on my truck folding hard plastic bed cover just fine. being on my truck always reminded me to store the dish before leaving the area.

This one came with a two port head for DIRECTV.

AS you can see you can wind up a good couple hundred feet of RG6 antenna cable. It also mounts to to almost anything. It also folds up for storage while in route.

I also got one of these TONE meters to help me loocate the satellite...

I would run one RG cable port to the living room TV area and the second RG cable port to the bedroom area. Here I would hookup to a SAT RCVR I brought along with me from home.

The I would hook the VIDEO OUTPUT cables of the SAT RCVR to the VIDEO INPUTS on my VIZIO 22-INCH HDTV.

Now I can watch SAT TV or CABLE/OTA TV by using the TV remotes.

Did this for a few years and then when the NATL BROADCAST TV came out with their digital HDTV signals from the local town I quit bringing along my SAT TV STUFF.

The OTA NATL BROADCAST TV from the local towns is high def TV mode and much better on the eyes than the standard satellite was..

Roy Ken

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