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skew and tilt are the same thing, putting the zip code into the receiver will bring up all info needed to aim the dish.

I heard as of now att does not allow a different location other than your home. So when I punch in the zip it may not help me. So I was trying to get around that. I did a trial run in my back yard , but want to take it to WV when I go down for the weekends.

DirecTV is intended as service for a single residence per account. You can still take a receiver (not Client) in an RV, but you will not get your locals once out of your home spot-beam and cannot change your address to get different locals.

As long as you aim the dish correctly with the Tilt (Skew) then you will get the national channels. Anything local or regional would be unavailable.

Though do make sure you have a MPEG-4/HD capable box and a slimline SWM dish or the Winegard Trav'ler. This is because DirecTV has been following through with the MPEG-2/SD-only shutdown. Only a matter of time before all areas have finished shutting down the outdated feeds.

I do have the slimline dish with swm and plan on a permanent set up of the dish. I have H44 receiver . I have an account with receiver.  That will go to and from with me will not stay in WV .I don't know what the mpeg4 and 2 are . can you please explain I am very new to this , I have trouble trying how to figure out dish pointer apps, they say they tell you tilt or skew but I can't find it in the app even if it was called polarization.

You have to choose multi lnb, directv sl3 dish type (101,99, 103)

If you have the Genie Lite (H44), then all boxes should be MPEG-4. But to be sure, what is the model of the other receiver?

MPEG-2 is SD-only. MPEG-4 is SD and HD capable. As long as the receiver is an H or HR model, then you will be ok. If the model is C, then that is not a receiver but a Mini Genie which is a Client and is impossible to work without the main box on the same physical network.

Ok, H44 receiver is the only thing I am taking ,I do have clients, but don't they need WiFi to get them connected to the receiver? Mini genie, I don't know what models they are, I didn't think I could use one with the receiver for an extra tv if I didn't have wifi. They called them wireless but they do all have cable and hmdi and power.

@Tiffstickle 

Mini Genies being Clients will not work at home since you are removing the H44 from them.

Most Mini Genies are wired. There are only two wireless models which are C41W and C61W (note the 'W' in the model). Since you say they have a cable beyond HDMI, that says you do not have wireless versions. Wireless would require a wireless video bridge (WVB) installed on the coax as your Genie Lite, just like the regular Genie line, does not have the WVB built-in. Only the HS17 (Genie-2) has the WVB built-in, but not suggested (specifically for you because not travel friendly by design).

As you have the Lite (H44), not regular DVR (HR44), then I would consider using a free upgrade to replace a Client with an HD non-DVR (last model H25). That way you could leave the H44 hooked up at home without causing issues for Clients and having to setup everything again and take the H25 with you. It has 1 tuner so doesn't use one from the main box like Clients and more reliable since if any Genie goes down all clients go with it. Being a full receiver the H25 is unaffected by an issue with the Genie.

Juniper 

That is some great info, I wonder if the service fee is less on the H25, although ,I would be hard pressed to give up the DVR it comes in handy when there are storms, we also have ability to stream at home my current set up at home is the DVR and 4 clients. Would I be able to also take a client with DVR. So we could have two tvs in WV?

The fee is not less on the H25. You pay $7 for each additional TV regardless what type it is. The receiver services cover the account, not charged per box that can use it. So Mini Genie Client, HD non-DVR, or HDDVR makes no difference in monthly cost.

You mention DVR. So you have the Genie Lite (H44) with the optional DVR upgrade kit, or is it actually the 2nd gen Genie (HR44) to begin with? Knowing for sure what you have will save headache later (just like a Client with coax is certainly not wireless).

Either way having DVR means an HDDVR (i.e. HR24) would have been better than a Mini Genie Client, but sounds like they are having trouble activating those recently (if not purposely stopped).

Juniper,  I am going to have to look at the model, I believe I still have the box it came in. I read yesterday that DirecTV is its own company again. Have you heard about that?

AT&T announced back in February that they were going to spin all their TV services (DirecTV, AT&T TV, U-Verse, WatchTV - the latter 2 no longer being offered to new customers) off into a new company, of which they would be majority (70%) owners.  The actual spinoff happened yesterday (which was a bit later than originally anticipated), with the new company named DirecTV (and at least AT&T TV being rebranded with the DirecTV name).  They've said that for now (no one knows how long) nothing will change from the end-user's point of view except the names of services.

Good I hope they lose the att website for paying the bill, it is the slowest site ever. I did read it would be called DirecTV stream? 

I was a crappy short article I read, I will have to look up other articles.