So I am a new Direct TV user. Have all H25 receivers. Appears that it will be most difficult to set up for my travel trailer. What would you guys recommend? Should I get a D12 and a dish? I had Dishnetwork for 14 years and switched. Now I don't know what to do for the Travel Trailer.
HD is not a priority. So if I just get a D12 receiver and a single lnb dish then I will get all my programming like at home except the HD channels. Hate to sound like a dummy but I I am not even sure if I have HD service. I know that I have H25 receivers and I tried to hook up one of those today on an old dish. Got message 771A which I found out was not detecting swm. The dish was an 18 x20 oval with 3lnbs and have multidish written on it. I assume that what it was capable of was only to run 3 receivers. Anyway, I was always able to get a signal with Dishnetwork so I thought the Directv would be as simple but not the case. Would have the single lnb only bring in Sat 101?
What do you mean, right sat??? So the D12 standard def receiver and a round dish with single lnb will bring in sat. 101? The other sat are 99 and 103 I beleive and those are the ones that have the hd channels right?
You guys are so far over my head! I guess in time I will learn directv like I knew Dishnetwork.
With the old style single lnb and a d12 receiver I should be able to get all programing with the exception of the locals. That would put me trying to aim the dish at 101 sat. I am familiar with the 110 sat on dish. With the directv dish would the receiver show programming for 110? How hard is it to aim the dish for 101? I thought the directv sat were only 99 101 and 103.
Like I said I am really new at this since I've had dish for the past 12 years or so. I really don't care about the hd or the locals. I only camp 5 or 6 times a year for a few days and I am only 10 miles or so from home.
I'm looking for ease of setup so I will try and pickup a single lnb 18 round. Should be able to find that on ebay or craigslist. As far as the receiver right now I have 4 H25's. When I originally put in direct I told them I did not want hd service and only wanted SD receivers however what I got is the H25's. I told them I wanted to be able to carry one with me camping which they had no problem with but with the H25's it is going to be a lot of trouble to set up. I called directv yesterday and the lady tried to instruct me on how to go into setup and change the dish to the type I have but it didn't work. All I ever got was the 771A error message.
Looks like my best bet would be to pickup a d12 receiver and go camping!!!
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