Directv Mpeg 4 HD With a Phase III (Camping etc.)

[dfergie]

I was playing around today with my camping Phase III dish, I found that the LNB from my AT9 would fit, so I swapped LNB's and set the Phase III on my Tripod and hooked to a H20 I had brought out to my Camper... with no tweaking I got good signals on 101 & 103b... (nothing on 99b or 119 and of course did not get all channels) I did move it slightly and lost signals... will have to play with it more, but this looks promising...

 

[dfergie]

Essentials I take with me when camping ...

 

[harshness]

There have been a number of experiments involving use of the Phase III dish with Ku/Ka LNBs. The mounting arm apparently needs to be modified to get a reliable three satellite view.

Note that due to the size of the reflector, this is largely a fair weather endeavor.

 

[dfergie]

This will beat the heck out of no HD... might have to try it out soon... It might work better with a Dish 1000 dish mounted on the Phase III arm...

 

[hancox]

hint - it works even better with an SL3 (assuming you don't need 110/119)

 

[talos4]

All the tools and everything is great BUT,

Where's the cooler?

 

[dfergie]

Icebox in the camper

 

[septicdeath]

keep us updated, I too am very interested in finding a way to receive mpeg4 hd's while we are camping. I was in the very first wave of directv hd dvr's and thus to run all 7 at our house, we had to have 2 of the huge (to me at least) dishes installed, I understand all kinds of advancements have been made, single line setups, 3 lnb's instead of 5, etc, etc. But I have no idea about how much smaller the mpeg4 hd dishes have gotten, I've always just used a pretty standard tripod (bought it with a dish 500 dual lnb but quickly replaced that dish with a 19" dlnb I had lying around) and just pointed it at single sat and got my tv that way. This year, I believe we are in the same location for 24 days, so the extra effort required to get mpeg4 hd to our trailer seems within reason, please continue to update as I said, I have bookmarked your thread and hope to get some recommendations for what to do.

Thanks in advance.

-John

 

[Libra]

Get a new reflector bolt in there and retest. I've seen some serious issues where something didn't work because the reflector bent from missing the screw. It could account for the slightest move/lost signals.

 

[Matt9876]

With the SL3 LNB head mounted to the phase III dish it works great.

Have over 100 successful installs in RV parks,condos etc.....

http://www.satelliteguys.us/directv-forum/150493-new-ka-ku-dish.html


Post #6 has the how to information.Adjustment of tilt and elevation will bring in 99 slot as well.