Direct TV

If you don't know what you are doing, it's always better to hire someone who does know what they are doing, and get it done right. Do a lot of watching, take notes, and THEN the next time, you can do it yourself. Small price for schooling you know!

You can purchase on-line, but if you are not sure how it works, you've just wasted your money.

But, there again, with our modern age of technology, there is no reason why you could learn how to do it here: Click here.

Standard definition with DirecTV is cheap and easy. You need a dish (ebay will work) and a receiver (ebay also works for this). Make sure the receiver you get is OWNED. It should say that in the listing. With some practice (and a cellphone app and cheap signal finder) the dish is easy to set up.

HD is a bit more expen$ive. The dish and hardware is more expensive as is the receiver. I've never aimed one so I can't say whether it's any easier or not. It would be nice to take our DTV DVR with us so I may look into an ebay HD dish next season.

I have DirecTV at home so I am interested too. I have read that most people will take their primary home receiver with them to use in the camper because it is already registered with DirecTV and will not incur an extra charge that buying a new receiver would. I could be all wrong on this.

Bigbird65 wrote:
I have DirecTV at home so I am interested too. I have read that most people will take their primary home receiver with them to use in the camper because it is already registered with DirecTV and will not incur an extra charge that buying a new receiver would. I could be all wrong on this.

Back when I watched tv.. I would do this. Found an extra dish and brought a receiver with me. There is plenty of info out there to figure how/where to aim. Just need a clear view of the sw sky...

Good information posted thus far, but to be honest it is a re-hash of a question that has already been asked and answered in detail several times before. I think you'll see your responses will be a bit diluted since the information is already out there. A quick forum search will offer numerous discussions and thorough responses / explanations that will have you on your way in no time.

Whatever dish you get, standard def 18" or high def 36"... The most important part of setting up the dish is to make sure it is absolutely plumb. If you are off a few degrees on the ground, your off by a few hundred miles in space.

A quality tripod is a must especially with the larger HD dish. I recommend tv4rv.com. Their tripods are expensive but very worth it.

We have Direct TV at the house with several receivers.
Wre take a standard receiver with us. We do not care what is happening at home. We use the antenna for local programming.
We use a Winegard Carry out for connecting receiver to the sats. Work good easy to set up.

I take two from home, a DVR and simple one coax receiver. Be careful buying a used one on EBay without calling Direct with the receiver ID number as not all receivers will still work regardless of owned or not.
Why not take a receiver from home??? it does not care where it's located.

I have DirecTv in my home. I used to take the main box and a tripod-mounted antenna in the trailer. Big pain at times finding the satellites at times. Plus all TV's had to watch the same program.

I upgraded my home to DirecTv Wireless Genie system and I installed a Winegard Travler antenna on the trailer's roof. Now I take the main box, the wireless units and hook them up in the trailer. When we get to the campsite I push a button and the antenna finds the satellites it needs. This is also the only way to get HD programming with DirecTv. One other point is the Genie's use HDMI cable so you have no signal interference from your trailer's coax cables. Best thing is every TV can watch something different, which is great when the grandkids are camping with us.

OP, We take our receiver from home with us in the RV using one account and that is one of several options.

BUT the equipment and dishes must be compatible.