I have a portable Winegard dish (On a base) that looks like when used for Direct TV will not get HD broadcasts (showed it wouldn't on a chart) Now that is fine and all that, but my home inventory includes 2 HD receivers and one HD reciver with DVR. Will I be able to use one of the regular HD receivers for Direct TV and still get the Standard definition channels while on the road? Or do I NEED to get a standard def box to go with it? I was thinking of getting the box anyways and using it on a 4th TV at home if I cant use one of the current ones. If I can use one of the current ones and just not get the HD channel, I will just do that.
Sorry for not searching too much before asking, LOTS of satellite TV threads though...
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Like many others, I'm doing exactly what you are planning - taking an DirecTV HD receiver that lives in my stick house bedroom during the winter and using it in the RV in the summer. The house has 5-LNB and there I get all the HD channels.
When I take it to the RV, it his hooked up to (depending if I'm at my permanent RV lot or on the road) a 3-LNB on my shed, a 1-LNB crankup on the roof of my Winnie, or the CampingWorld portable foldup "saucer" dish, which is also a 1-LNB.
Just go into Setup and tell it you have the 1-LNB Round dish and you'll be good to go. No HD, but will handle the regular stations fine (just as it's doing for you today... not every channel you watch at home is HD.)
Very good gentlemen, thanks for the info! Saved me 69.00 + 5.00 a month for the added receiver. I wondered if that setup showed an option for 1 LNBF and it appears it does.
I have the "cheap" crank up winegard sat dish with elevation sensor on my rig (or did I sold it a 6 months ago) and it would pick up HD channels fine just had to point the dish to either echostar 129 or 62 for dishnet. Not sure about the little 15 inch foldup dish will collect enough signal but the HD sats use the same circular lnb as the SD sats it's just all in your configuration. Granted with only a single lnb dish you can only have SD or HD at any one time unless you want to move the dish when switching from one definition to the other.
Like many others, I'm doing exactly what you are planning - taking an DirecTV HD receiver that lives in my stick house bedroom during the winter and using it in the RV in the summer. The house has 5-LNB and there I get all the HD channels.
When I take it to the RV, it his hooked up to (depending if I'm at my permanent RV lot or on the road) a 3-LNB on my shed, a 1-LNB crankup on the roof of my Winnie, or the CampingWorld portable foldup "saucer" dish, which is also a 1-LNB.
Just go into Setup and tell it you have the 1-LNB Round dish and you'll be good to go. No HD, but will handle the regular stations fine (just as it's doing for you today... not every channel you watch at home is HD.)
This is kind of what I am doing also. Just went from an SD receiver in our (at home) bedroom to an HD. If I take that receiver. Do I pull off the filter that is on the back of the HD receiver when taking in the coach? We have in the living from of the house an HD DVR but wont be taking it in the coach. But I know I will setup to a single LNB but courious about the filter thingy that is on there now.
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