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Local channels at our camphouse?
Hello, my name is Clint.
We have a camp approximately seven miles from our home setup. The satellite dish currently mounted outside is not advanced enough to bring in the local channels that we subscribe to at home. We already have a receiver moved to the camp. The burden of getting up and using a toggle switch to move back and forth from the antennae to the satellite dish is becoming a huge inconvenience.
Would I be looking at purchasing the DirecTV Slimline SL3S SWM DECA MRV 3 Satellite Dish to resolve this issue? And if so what store or website would be best to order the satellite dish?
chendrickson
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14 years ago
www.solidsignal.com
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cabletech
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14 years ago
What type of dish do you have at the camp site? If you truly have the R15 and you are recieving local channels at your regular home, then you have a problem with the reciever setup, as, being only 7 miles from home, it does not matter what style of dish you have at the camp site as long as the dish type is correctly selected in setup.
Try going into fav-setup>satellite and change the dish type to 18" round with mulitswitch. See if that works.
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chendrickson
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14 years ago
Good catch. I missed the R15, and in fact the R15 won't work with the SL3S LNB.
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nimz
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14 years ago
chendrickson & cabletech, thanks for the responses.
In a couple hours time I'll be able to break away from here and drive to the camp to change those settings. Also want to double check the receiver's model # and find out the type dish out there now, I know the dish is more than a few years old now.
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peds48
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14 years ago
and a slimline dish is an overkill for an R15 receiver
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daisymay0104
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14 years ago
based upon your zip code that market is being updated to where u can only receiver you locals if u ahve hd receiver and hd dish so yes you would need to do a upgrade but you would have to upgrade the r15 as well because it has to be mpeg4
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nimz
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14 years ago
Since I cannot edit my first post to reflect this change...
The current receiver out there is a D12-500 and the satellite dish was SF2-D3 rev. 1 if that means anything, to me it doesn't.
This help any?
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litzdog911
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14 years ago
Yeah, that's the LNB part number. Looks like you a Single LNB Round 18" dish. That dish only receives channels from DirecTV's main 101ºW satellite. As daisymay points out, that dish and your D12 will not be able to receive your local channels after they migrate to the new MPEG4 satellites and equipment. I'm guessing that you have a second dish at your home to receive the 72.5ºW local channels?
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cabletech
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14 years ago
Yes Change your dish type to the 18" round with mulitiswitch. daisymay states that your area will be upgrading to a differant format and you will be getting new equipment. When the installer comes out to do the upgrade, ask him/her what dish type is so that after the upgrade, you can get a new dish for the camp site.
You may even want to ask the installer if he/she would be willing to do you camp site upgrade as a side job, as you will not be able to go thru DTV with out a lot of hassels.
Good Luck Let us know what happens.
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nimz
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14 years ago
That's right, we have 2 receivers for the local channels in the living room and bedroom already. This third receiver was for a spare bedroom.
I'll check with DTV tomorrow and see if they can give me any time estimate on this market upgrade. Good to know though. Thanks for all the help!
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