re: Best way to acquire a Direct TV dish for a camp?

There are tons of vendors that sell just the dish and the LNB (Low Noise Buffer) (aka feedhorn). A mount is as easy as a piece of pipe cemented in a 5 gallon bucket. Look up Azimuth/Elevation/Skew and point accordingly.

Or go somewhere like Solid Signal and get a meter and use it to point. I got the ole man one for his travel trailer when him and mom traveled.

IIRC if you're too far from home and your home account has local channels on it...you might not be in the spotbeam for the locals so you may not get those at the camp. Something to consider.