- #DIRECT TV SATELLITE SET UP PORTABLE#
- #DIRECT TV SATELLITE SET UP CODE#
- #DIRECT TV SATELLITE SET UP ZIP#
Look for the numbers on little ruler lines and you'll find it.įrom my display on the TV, I see that my local spot's elevation is 36 and tilt is 98, so I loosen the thumbscrews and adjust the dish so that the indicators on the bracket point to these numbers, then tighten things back up. Elevation (bottom arrow pointing up) and tilt (top arrow pointing down) on my dish bracket. Mine is a fancy $400 setup with thumbscrews, and yours may have nuts and bolts to adjust these settings. Mount the dish bracket and dish on the mast, hook up your wire(s), and find the elevation and tilt adjustments on the bracket. First, set up your tripod so the mast is perpendicular – use a torpedo level for this, or a bubble level installed in the top of the pipe. Elevation is how far above the horizon you aim the dish, and tilt is the rotation of the dish around its directional axis to line the dish up with the satellites along the earth's equatorial plane. Mine where I am now is 169 degrees, so I know to aim south-southeast. The numbers you need to aim this dish are in the text above the colored signal strength meter bars – azimuth, elevation, and tilt.Īzimuth is the point on the horizon you aim for in degrees clockwise from north. Now go to Menu-> Settings and Help-> Settings-> Satellite-> View Signal Strength-> Signal Meters and you'll see something like the photo of the TV screen above. (Don't enter anything at home if you're just experimenting.) Once you do that, hit cancel and back out of that menu.
#DIRECT TV SATELLITE SET UP ZIP#
On mine it's Menu-> Settings and Help-> Settings-> Satellite-> Repeat Satellite Setup-> *enter a dash (safety feature)*-> Dish Pointing and you'll see a place to enter either the ZIP or latitude/longitude where you're going to set up your dish.
#DIRECT TV SATELLITE SET UP CODE#
Get your latitude and longitude to the nearest degree off your GPS or a map, or get the ZIP code of the nearest town, either one, and start looking in the menu of your cable box for the setup instructions.ĭo this at your house before you try moving it. First, however, you need to know where you are.
DirecTV helpfully provides you with aiming coordinates and signal strength meters, if you know where to look on their menu.Īiming the dish is easier than you think, and most cable boxes now will tell you where to aim the dish and also have signal strength meters. If you have a two-wire system, you'll have to hardwire in a second connection, or run it through a window. Since I have a SWM (one-wire) system, I just hook it up to the external connecter on my Roadtrek for cable hookups, and hook the inside end that used to go to the TV to the box instead, connecting the box to the TV with a HDMI cable. I have three lengths totaling 100 feet with barrel connecters to splice them together so that I can park under the trees or next to the hookups and have enough cable to put the dish out in the open where it can hit the satellites. Pick up some TV cable to connect the dish to the box – one or two strand, whichever your system requires. High definition packages require the larger oval Slimline dishes. Some systems like DirecTV Basic only pick up one satellite- they have one LNB, and are usually smaller circular dishes than the multiple-LNB oval dishes. You should be able to get a dish and tripod for under $300, and sometimes for as little as $150. SWM (single wire method) is common on recently installed units others have two cables.
It has to match the one on your roof EXACTLY as far as the number of LNBs (low noise blockers) and wires. Check with SolidSignal, on Amazon, or any of the other dish sellers to see if they have what you have at home. You will also need a dish – mine is the Slimline 5 LNB model here.
The important thing is that they have a 2 inch diameter pipe for the mast to fit a DirecTV dish. There are several companies who sell these tripods, from $30 cheapies like this one to fancy $125 ones like this one.
#DIRECT TV SATELLITE SET UP PORTABLE#
The trick to making your system portable is to bring the box and a second dish on a tripod, and set it up wherever you travel to. You also have a permanently installed satellite dish at your house, probably up on the roof somewhere. You already have what's called a receiver – a box the size of a DVD player your satellite provider gave you. Here's how it's done.įirst, you have to get the equipment. I have been fulltiming for three years now and have been able to set up my satellite television dish and watch TV wherever I go in about 15 minutes. If you already have a satellite television setup at your sticks and bricks house, it's easy to take it with you when traveling.
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