Satellite TV In My 5th Wheel

cattledog04 wrote:

F-TROUP wrote:
We take took the 3rd receiver from the spare bedroom and put it in the trailer and use a winegard portable sat dish just plug in and let it find the sats. Have used it all over the southwest. Direct Tv could careless where you use the receiver

Did you get the standard def. sat dish? Thats all I see available for Direct Tv, which I subscribe to as well.

Yes bought it used for $50 works great. If you have Genie 2 at home it won't because it is a wireless setup, regular Genie will.

cattledog04 wrote:

F-TROUP wrote:
We take took the 3rd receiver from the spare bedroom and put it in the trailer and use a winegard portable sat dish just plug in and let it find the sats. Have used it all over the southwest. Direct Tv could careless where you use the receiver

Did you get the standard def. sat dish? Thats all I see available for Direct Tv, which I subscribe to as well.

Direct tv uses a different dish set up than dish tv so your dish or auto antenna has to be for Direct TV. We used our spare box from home and a carryout dish which was only SD for years until the anolog box failed and direct tv keep insisting I needed a service call before they would send me a new box , they wanted to check the cables and they wanted me to pay for the service call. So I ended my relationship with Direct TV and now if we are anywhere near a city or a good size town you can HD network channels over the air with a antenna which is what we do now. when I had the tripod it could get frustrating setting up , the carry out made it easier but was only SD on the direct tv system.

There are credible reports that DTV SD transmission will end in 2019.

F-TROUP wrote:
We take took the 3rd receiver from the spare bedroom and put it in the trailer and use a winegard portable sat dish just plug in and let it find the sats. Have used it all over the southwest. Direct Tv could careless where you use the receiver

Did you get the standard def. sat dish? Thats all I see available for Direct Tv, which I subscribe to as well.

We take took the 3rd receiver from the spare bedroom and put it in the trailer and use a winegard portable sat dish just plug in and let it find the sats. Have used it all over the southwest. Direct Tv could careless where you use the receiver

We have Directv at home. On our FW, I installed the Traveler Directv dish which will automatically locate the satellite signal. I added 2 receivers to my account for $7 each per month for the camping season. I deactivate the receivers after our last trip and activate them just before our first trip of the season. Directv told me that I would get the local station for my permanent brick and mortar unless I call and change my address for the RV when we reach our destination. Since I have only one account for all the receivers, my semi-adult children that stay at home would also be watching the local channels where RV is located. Too much hassle; not to mention it would foul up the recording settings for scheduled shows on my home DVRs. I can usually get the locals over the FW's HD antenna. I can get local news where I'm camping and also keep up with the local news at home.

cattledog04 wrote:
Just to understand correctly, I can take one of my receivers, buy a satellite kit and I'm good to go? Do I need to tell Direct of the location change? If so, why is that? Thanks again.

Yes, it is that simple. Rules shmools... No reason to tell DTV anything. you arent stealing anything, and using the service you are already paying for.

I see tv4rv.com has the satellite antenna (dish) for sale too. Easiest route is to buy exactly the same dish and lnb you are using at home, then no box reconfiguration should be needed.

We have taken our HD receiver from our master bedroom for years when we were using Directv, now with Dish we purchased separate (VIP) receivers that were intended for RV usage, in either event we added receivers to our home account for use in our rig.

We have been back and forth with both satellite tv providers over the many years to take advantage of promotional pricing, we would purchase the same satellite antenna installed at our home and mount on a tripod for use when RVing.

If you require local channels it is somewhat more difficult with Directv, didn't matter much to us as we could usually get some locals OTA. With Dish Network it is simple to get locals and or major networks, we use their online chat function on our smartphones to inform them of our new location.

There are many online retailers where you could get complete kits or whatever to get you going, we used a home-made stand for years before purchasing our tripod. We've been doing it for decades and it takes just a few minutes to have every channel we have at home using just a compass.

Definitely practice at home first to ensure sat equipment is functional and your rig readily passes satellite signal to your sat receiver inside your RV. Viewing how your home sat antenna is pointed will help get you started, with a bit of practice it becomes quite easy.

Will someone want to watch DTV at home? Where is the RV work location?

cattledog04 wrote:
Just to understand correctly, I can take one of my receivers, buy a satellite kit and I'm good to go? Yes Do I need to tell Direct of the location change? No If so, why is that? Locals are spot beamed and if you leave the area then you won't have locals until you change the service address, so Yes. Thanks again.

Using 2 receivers in different locations on one account is a rule violation.

If you leave the spot beam, change the service address then the home receiver won't get locals. The solution is a second RV account.