Directv question
Is it possible to have a Directv receiver at home being used and one in the RV also being used?
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I did this for a couple of years with bringing a spare SAT RECEIVER and a portable dish from the house system. This was only for the standard SAT TV stuff...
Worked out great for us doing this and is not doing anything illegal... DIRECTV doesnt care where you are located. The only thing we missed was out assigned local station TV signal... They all go away when you physically leave your local ZIP CODE area...
I did run into problems with my old equipment back then where when I pulled the power from them for a somewhat long period of time they would lose their setting and I would have to get ahold of DIRECTV and get it turned back on again. SO I you have to have your account number and CARD number to get it turned back on. Later on I found out you could log into DIRECTV on the internet and have the SAT RCVR turned on again... I always taped all of this needed info in an envelope to the top the SAT RCVR.
I don't think any of this will work with the DIRECTV HDTV setup where you need to use more than one SAT SIGNAL at the same time...
It worked great for us with a two head portable SAT DISH. I ran RG cable from each of the SAT DISH two head ports with one going to a SAT RCVR in the living room TV and the other one going to a SAT RCVR in the bedroom. This allowed each RV TV set to watch any of the channels separately...
When the NATL BROADCAST went to digital high Def TV in 2009 I think it was we then stopped bringing along the SAT RCVR and DISH. The HDTV from the local towns were much better to watch. Using the RV BATWING antenna picks up many of the local towns transmitting the HDTV digital signals these day and it is all free to the public to use.
Roy Ken
Worked out great for us doing this and is not doing anything illegal... DIRECTV doesnt care where you are located. The only thing we missed was out assigned local station TV signal... They all go away when you physically leave your local ZIP CODE area...
I did run into problems with my old equipment back then where when I pulled the power from them for a somewhat long period of time they would lose their setting and I would have to get ahold of DIRECTV and get it turned back on again. SO I you have to have your account number and CARD number to get it turned back on. Later on I found out you could log into DIRECTV on the internet and have the SAT RCVR turned on again... I always taped all of this needed info in an envelope to the top the SAT RCVR.
I don't think any of this will work with the DIRECTV HDTV setup where you need to use more than one SAT SIGNAL at the same time...
It worked great for us with a two head portable SAT DISH. I ran RG cable from each of the SAT DISH two head ports with one going to a SAT RCVR in the living room TV and the other one going to a SAT RCVR in the bedroom. This allowed each RV TV set to watch any of the channels separately...
When the NATL BROADCAST went to digital high Def TV in 2009 I think it was we then stopped bringing along the SAT RCVR and DISH. The HDTV from the local towns were much better to watch. Using the RV BATWING antenna picks up many of the local towns transmitting the HDTV digital signals these day and it is all free to the public to use.
Roy Ken
