New Old Dad
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"Emergency Recover Dish"
Elsewhere on this site, someone mentioned Direct TV offering an "Emergency Recovery Dish" available to current subscribers. The theory being you would put this in your basement and deploy it if a storm ripped the dish of the side of your house. It is a fairly nice kit including a tripod, pole and dish. The only drawback is that it only gets one satellite -- but hey it was cheap. I can't recall exactly, but I think it was under $20.
Elsewhere on this site, someone mentioned Direct TV offering an "Emergency Recovery Dish" available to current subscribers. The theory being you would put this in your basement and deploy it if a storm ripped the dish of the side of your house. It is a fairly nice kit including a tripod, pole and dish. The only drawback is that it only gets one satellite -- but hey it was cheap. I can't recall exactly, but I think it was under $20.
SmokeyBare
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Check Craig's list... the Thrift Shops... GoodWill Re-sale stores... Salvation Army stores... Never can tell what folks have donated or are trying to sell.
Marv
Marv
jpmorgan37
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I bought mine on e-bay for a penny plus shipping. The tripods are available from just about anywhere. Again, e-bay had some great deals. I used the same box from my house so I didn't need another account. Then when we sold our home and went full time, I just changed our account to our South Dakota (mail forwarder) address and filled out the necessary paperwork with DirecTv to be mobile. Hope this helps.
John
John
leftyf
SSG Stumpy-VA Terrorist
Can anyone suggest a source for a portable HD dish for Direct TV?
A. Get ahold of an old DISH from Dish networks. Replace their LNB with the LNB's from a directTV dish. You should be good to go...it worked for me.
B. Or try to find one on the side of an unlived in house....that worked for me too...then see A above.None
Camping world has a two LNA setup that seems to work pretty well, if you don't want to try Item B above.
Lefty (What me pay for it?) Frizzell
ct0218
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Directv recently replaced my "sidecar" 5 LNB HD dish with the new slimline HD dish. I asked what they were going to do with the old dish (which worked and picked up the same HD channels) and he said they threw them away. I asked if I could have it, he said sure. I made a mount, and we now have HD for the Landmark using a second HD receiver I had.
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