So I have directv at my house, and I brought a receiver to my camp and to my parents camp and mounted a dish at each. Local channels are working fine at my house but not working at either camp. I cant really call directv for help since Im running the receivers at the camps and not the house. Any ideas? I tried resetting them, but that didn't help.

THanks in advance.

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Posted by diat150

Louisiana

Member since Jun 2005

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Posted on 11/1/20 at 4:31 pm to Tiger In the Swamp

Where is the camp vs your house? Slot of locals come in on regional spot beams and won’t work if the camp is outside the spot beam.

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Posted by Bawcephus

Member since Jul 2018

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Posted on 11/1/20 at 7:25 pm to Tiger In the Swamp

Find an old cable wire. Run it outside and then strip the coating off the last couple feet. Voila all the local channels you'd ever want.

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Posted by Hamma1122

Member since Sep 2016

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Posted on 11/2/20 at 8:30 am to Tiger In the Swamp

Out of the regional area. Had this happen when I brought my box offshore

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Posted by s14suspense

Baton Rouge

Member since Mar 2007

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Posted on 11/2/20 at 9:28 am to Tiger In the Swamp

Have a similar issue where "local" channels used to work just fine for years and recently they became unavailable at camp.

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Posted by weadjust

Member since Aug 2012

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Posted on 11/2/20 at 10:59 am to s14suspense

If your camp is located in the same local tv market as your house. They may have moved the local channels to Satellite 119. Sat 119 programing is mostly local channels and foreign language channels. If you have a slimline 3 dish/lnb at your camp you only have Sats 99 101 & 103 and a slimline 5 dish/lnb at your house you get Sats 99 101 103 110 & 119. If this is the case all you would need to do is swap out the lnb on the dish at the camp to a 5 lnb. Look at your dish and see what lnb you have at both locations.

Slimline 3 LNB

Slimline 5 LNB

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Posted by BottleGnome

Kenner, LA

Member since Sep 2014

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Posted on 11/2/20 at 5:38 pm to weadjust

AT&T performed an orbital slot consolidation in 2019 if I remember right. Local and Spanish language programming moved down to 99, 101, or 103. For the last year or so techs have only been able to install Slimline 3 or Reverse band Slimeline 3 lnb's. How sure are you of your dish alignment, have you checked the signal strength in the settings menu?

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