Montana Owners Club - Keystone Montana 5th Wheel Forum - View Single Post - Directv and access to local channels on the road

richfaa · 03-26-2008, 12:43 PM

Directv HD signals require a new dish. The 18" round dish looks only at one satellite, which has no HD signals. You'll need the 5 LNB "Slimline" dish (or the bulkier AT-9 dish, which the Slimline replaced)that looks at FIVE satellites. Setting the dish up is more of a hassle, but after a few times is not that difficult. If you don't travel too far from home, the new dish will provide your local HD stations. Once outside the spot beam, usually several hundred miles wide, but shaped like an oval, so it's longer than it is wider, you'll need the DNS waiver, or if in one place long enough, you can "move" as Rich does"

I guess I have not been paying attention... I did not know we would have to upgrdae our direct tv dish/ For some reason I thought That the sat signal even if you are only looking at the one sat..was a digital signal??

OOPPS.. I was not paying attention again.. You were refering to HD Signals and you are correct. I will still be able to receive on my old dish but not HD.

03-26-2008, 12:43 PM	#23
richfaa Montana Master Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: North Ridgeville Posts: 20,229 M.O.C. #2839	Directv HD signals require a new dish. The 18" round dish looks only at one satellite, which has no HD signals. You'll need the 5 LNB "Slimline" dish (or the bulkier AT-9 dish, which the Slimline replaced)that looks at FIVE satellites. Setting the dish up is more of a hassle, but after a few times is not that difficult. If you don't travel too far from home, the new dish will provide your local HD stations. Once outside the spot beam, usually several hundred miles wide, but shaped like an oval, so it's longer than it is wider, you'll need the DNS waiver, or if in one place long enough, you can "move" as Rich does" I guess I have not been paying attention... I did not know we would have to upgrdae our direct tv dish/ For some reason I thought That the sat signal even if you are only looking at the one sat..was a digital signal?? OOPPS.. I was not paying attention again.. You were refering to HD Signals and you are correct. I will still be able to receive on my old dish but not HD.