Camping & college football, DTV ... Internet

pira114 wrote:
I went through this. You got both parts of the answer above. It can be done.

You need to make sure the receiver and dish are compatible. They'd have to be years apart in age for that to be the problem. Or different makers.

Then the aiming part. Not as easy as you'd think. They sell the satalite aiming tools online. Once you have a stable level base to put it on, you temporarily attach one of these aiming devices and move the dish until you have the strongest signal. Slight adjustments can ruin or loose the signal.

Hope that helps. Enjoy your trip!

If it's HD it's real tricky to get all 3 satellites dialed in for 101W. I have two free sattelite Finder apps. In my hands they work best on the iPad vs iPhone.
For Internet streaming, most parks either have too much demand on them or too poor of a signal. There are exceptions.

I am not sure about Directv, but with Dish, you have to have a special Internet Satellite Dish.

I went through this. You got both parts of the answer above. It can be done.

You need to make sure the receiver and dish are compatible. They'd have to be years apart in age for that to be the problem. Or different makers.

Then the aiming part. Not as easy as you'd think. They sell the satalite aiming tools online. Once you have a stable level base to put it on, you temporarily attach one of these aiming devices and move the dish until you have the strongest signal. Slight adjustments can ruin or loose the signal.

Hope that helps. Enjoy your trip!

MJO21 wrote:
Going camping this weekend and would really like to sit outside in 60* temps with a beer or scotch, Dutch oven chili cooking and watch a game. First time camping without a boat or fishing and this sounds really relaxing to me.

I have an extra DTV dish, I figured that I could take a receiver out of the house with me. I tried a dry run in the backyard and could not get reception. Think the eyes are out of date on the old dish?

I also thought of taking the iPad and running it through a tv, but there are very few games on Internet.


Any thoughts???

I did the same thing. We had DTV when my daughter moved out I took the receiver out of her room and put it in the 5th wheel. I then bought a triple LNB DTV dish with 100 ft. cable off of Craigslist for $20. Hooked it all up and aimed the dish and all worked well.

The trick is getting the dish aimed correctly. It requires proper elevation, left right angle and rotation adjustments, plus the base has to be level. Originally I made a wooden base but later made a T shaped base out of uni-strut and leveled it two ways using three 1/2" all-thread stakes into the ground. Look on the internet on how to aim the dish. That's what I did. The first time I tried it at home it took me about 2 hours to figure everything out and get the adjustments right. After that I could do it in 10 minutes when setting up at the lake.

There won't be but one game this week-end.....LSU vs Florida. Geaux Tigers.

If you will have internet service where you will be , purchase a Slingbox.... we use ours and really like it...

It plugs into your cable box at home , you set up a free account , once you get to where your going , you log into either their website , or open the app ( $14.00 one time)on your phone or Ipad. You then get ALL the channels you get at home , because you are basically watching your home TV.

The down side is that you NEED internet (at the campsite) for it to work..

We camped one weekend at Nocalula Falls during the Alabama/Auburn game. It was funny and fascinating to see all of the TV's, tents and setups at every campsite. I had a picture, can't find it, where I looked down the backside row of the rv's and all I could see where tv's with the game on it and everyone watching except us. At least we had the campground to ourselves for a couple of hours.

We don't bother with TV. I rarely have time to sit still and watch a game, so I listen to my Mountaineers on my smartphone on Tunein radio. More portable, and I think that the radio station has better play by play descriptions than the TV commentators.

Not all dishes are compatible with certain receivers. Please list the type of dish you have and the receiver model. Also lots of info on the DirecTV website.