Does anybody know how to get the MotoSat dish to find Direct TV when you have the new Direct TV remotes? Direct TV came to our house several weeks ago to upgrade a receiver in the house. The technician said he would put a new receiver in the RV as well, at no charge, because they were trying to get the old RCA receivers out of circulation. I should have never let him take it.When I tried out the new reciever with remote, there is now NO WAY to control the satellite dish on the roof and get it to find the Direct TV satellite. Now I have a dish that may as well be a boat anchor.Direct TV will not bring the old receiver back. They say if you buy one on EBAY, they will not give you a card for it. And MotoSat is out of business and the company that spawned off of it, won't call back.Help! Any suggestions. I still have the old RCA remote (black with purple buttons) but it no longer works to position or control the satellite dish.thanks

Your installer should have showed how it all works BEFORE he left. I would call him back.

Do you have the receiver set for 18 inch round multiswitch one input?

When our old receiver died, our sat guy www.sats2go.com said to order the standard D-12 receiver from DirecTV and not let them send any others. We don't have Motosat but we do have an older dome satellite that won't work with the new HD receivers. And as donn0128 said the new receiver has to be set for the proper satellite.

Update on my MotoSat and Direct TV situation. In answer to one of the posts above, I'm not sure how the receiver is set, since with the new Direct TV remote, you cannot access the dish again. I got a nice call today from Tom, a rep with Satellite Electronics who was up at the FMCA rally. He said mine is a common problem with MotoSat users. He believes if I purchase one of the older RCA receivers on EBAY, I may be able to hook that up with an A/B switch, without having a card, just the unit. Use the old receiver to lock into the satellite and then switch to the new Direct TV receiver to watch it but it requires a new coaxiable cable to be run up through the roof to the back of the motosat dish.By the time he was describing what had to be done, I had thought it was just better to get a new system at this point. He recommended the Wineguard Traveler. For regular resolution, you could get the old dish replaced for about $ 1100 and for HD, it might be around $1999. I hope you find this helpful. Technology marches on.

I won the battle but lost the war! Thanks for all the troubleshooting help on getting my Direct TV to work with the old RCA receiver and raise our MotoSat dish. I found out that the telephone line input at the back of the RCA receiver in our RV, should have been moved over to the low speed data port, which is side by side and looks the same. A repair guy told me that's the most common mistake folks made.I hooked it up properly and right away, it directed the MotoSat dish to the satellite. I was able to talk Direct TV into activating the old RCA receiver but they told me that this week, they are turning off the RCA receivers and will no longer support them as they are too old. So I have about 4 days in which to enjoy it! Technology marches on. I'm not sure if direct tv really will turn off the RCA receivers this week on Dec. 18th, but that's what they told me.ThanksMexicanpiloto

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mexicanpiloto13
Explorer III
Dec 26, 2013
Good point about the prior service address rather than a new one. Thanks
CA_Traveler
Explorer III
Dec 26, 2013
Bill, Are both SD and HD DNS channels on 101? Just curious.
Seneca_35GS
Explorer
Dec 27, 2013
I currently have a Moto Stat domed "FREEDOM" style antenna. The antenna was installed in Nov. 2007. My Direct TV box is a
Model D12-300 with a mfg. date of 10-7-07. The Direct box was made in Mexico. I checked out the antenna/Direct box/ and Samsung TV this afternoon and everything was working OK.

Will Direct be shutting down my 6 year old box sometime soon? The old Direct box does not have HDMI cables that connect to the Samsung.

Would appreciate any updates on what Direct TV is going to do, if anything.
Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Dec 27, 2013
Seneca 35GS wrote:
I currently have a Moto Stat domed "FREEDOM" style antenna. The antenna was installed in Nov. 2007. My Direct TV box is a
Model D12-300 with a mfg. date of 10-7-07. The Direct box was made in Mexico. I checked out the antenna/Direct box/ and Samsung TV this afternoon and everything was working OK.

Will Direct be shutting down my 6 year old box sometime soon? The old Direct box does not have HDMI cables that connect to the Samsung.

Would appreciate any updates on what Direct TV is going to do, if anything.

DirecTV will be doing nothing with your D12 box. It's the current SD receiver from DirecTV. The receivers being referenced here are really, really old.
Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Dec 27, 2013
CA Traveler wrote:
Bill, Are both SD and HD DNS channels on 101? Just curious.

DirecTV SD programming comes from 101 and can be received by a dome style antenna. DirecTV HD programming comes from 99 and 103 and requires and open face SL3 or SL5 LNB for reception of 99, 101 and 103.
moisheh
Explorer
Dec 28, 2013
Bill: Is it true that Direct will not be "broadcasting" that low speed data? What is the purpose of that data? If no Rcvrs. have that port anymore why would they keep sending the signal? Thanks.

Moisheh
Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Dec 28, 2013
DirecTV does not "broadcast" low speed data. The data port is used by the receiver to communicate with external devices. I do not know of any way for DirecTV to prevent that from happening but they certainly could prevent owners who are using them from receiving a viewable signal.
moisheh
Explorer
Dec 28, 2013
Hi Bill: In this matter I am technically challenged. Please help me understand. The old Tracvisions need data from the receiver to find a satellite. Where does the receiver get this data. I think some Tivo type devices also need this data. If it does not come via the satellite then it must be in the receiver?? HELP!

Moisheh
Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Dec 28, 2013
It comes from the receiver. The receiver can send data about information it receives to a remote device. It's an old, outdated, unsupported technology but it's still there and still works. In this case, the antenna would use the information coming from the receivers signal strength meter to determine proper satellite and signal strength. This part of a receiver cannot be turned off so even if programming is not being sent, the signal will always be coming down and a receiver (activated or not) will always be able to see it. Unless DirecTV has come up with some magically signal that they can send via satellite to actually kill a receiver (and why would they when all they have to do is no longer provide programming to the card associated with that receiver) then the box will continue to see a signal and send that data out via low speed data port.
moisheh
Explorer
Dec 28, 2013
Thanks Bill.

Moisheh

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