Direct TV Question

[olds]

I have an older, 18" dish with LNB. I no longer use it as I have cable. But I am thinking of going back to satellite as they have good prices on multi-room systems.
I am wondering if I can use the old dish/lnb with a new receiver in the motor home? It would be a simple matter of moving the receiver between the house and the motor home.
Anyone try this?

 

[NutBucket]

well, you'd have to aim the dish each time. Other then that there's no reason you can't do that, from a techincal standpoint.

 

[emmpee]

It'd work, as long as you only need signal from one satellite.

DirecTV now has 3 satellites. You need the oval-shaped dish to grab the signal from all 3.

Rough channel breakdown on the satellites:
1) all of the common/regular channels, some local channels
2) some local channels
3) some local channels, some foreign language stuff, some religious channels, some HDTV

If you aren't looking for local channels, it should be fine.

 

[olds]

Aiming it wouldn't be a problem but I was looking for local channels.

 

[emmpee]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Aiming it wouldn't be a problem but I was looking for local channels.

Enter your zip code here, then read the message at the bottom.

If it says "You can receive these local channels using a DIRECTV® Multi-Satellite System", you won't get local channels.
If it says you can do it with "any" Directv system, you will.
EDIT: Holy christ the WYSIWIG editor sucks.

 

[NutBucket]

Hmmm. Not sure about the locals. Are you receiving national feeds or do you get your OTA locals? If you get the OTA locals at home then its possible you won't get any locals when you're on the road. I don't know how DTV programs the access cards.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: emmpee
It'd work, as long as you only need signal from one satellite.

DirecTV now has 3 satellites. You need the oval-shaped dish to grab the signal from all 3.

Rough channel breakdown on the satellites:
1) all of the common/regular channels, some local channels
2) some local channels
3) some local channels, some foreign language stuff, some religious channels, some HDTV

If you aren't looking for local channels, it should be fine.

Unless you are into HD programming or para espanol, you only need to get the signal from 2 dishes. The third one is exclusively for HD content and spanish programming. A simple single lnb/dual feed dish works well for a regular dtv system. Feed that into a multiswitch and you can output to 4 receivers (or more)

 

[Pliablemoose]

It depends, I just got a Direct TIVO system, the installers said that I didn't need the triple LNB that came with the system, & they just used the existing dual LNB I had installed several years ago.

They said the triple was used for HD feeds.

For a single IRD (reciever decoder), your single LNB should be fine.

There's some cool tripods for RV use, and more than a few folks do exactly what you're talking about with the RV setup.