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Engle · 03-25-2014, 06:47 AM

On my 06 Allegro Bay, I have a King-Dome 9702 low profile Satellite Receiver. I am using a Direct TV receiver that I originally had in my house.
I am set up with Direct TV to get local channels. I could never receive the local channels in my RV until I had a Direct TV service technician come out and change some of the settings in my receiver. He changed the setting from 18 round to an 18x?? oval dish. This allowed my unit to receive more than one satellite. This was last summer. When I re boot my receiver, it goes the 10 minute ordeal talking with the satellite or what ever it does. I phoned Direct TV this weekend and they told me that if the receiver down loads the guide for the local channels, I should be able to pick up the channels. If it doesn't download the local guide, then my dish is miss-aligned.
Well after re booting the system and re aligning the dish, I did get the local channel guide downloaded but I am not getting the local channels. Where I should be getting the local channels, I am getting the History 2 network, two channels are getting some shopping networks and a couple other crazy networks.
Does anyone else have a problem receiving their local channels while receiving all of the other channels properly? If anyone had a similar problem, did you get it fixed? If so, how.

thanks folks, Leo

jwmaustin · 03-25-2014, 07:37 PM

I've had similar problems and not got it fixed yet. I do think the antenna choice might be part of the problem....just haven't had a chance to try it yet.

I did use the HD receiver from my house and per DTV phone call had to change to "hide HD channels" to get it to work. I had to use the HD receiver cause it had the HDML connectors. I guess antenna change might be next.

Bumps · 03-25-2014, 07:47 PM

I have the same setup as Engle. I have found that the regional zones are not very accurate. Try setting the regional zones one direction east or west of where you are. Might make a difference. Altitude also makes a difference (I'm in Colorado) to the regions. I don't get my local channels once I am more than about 250 miles from home. We carry a portable HD antenna for local channels while on-the-road. \ken

docj · 03-26-2014, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Engle

On my 06 Allegro Bay, I have a King-Dome 9702 low profile Satellite Receiver. I am using a Direct TV receiver that I originally had in my house.
I am set up with Direct TV to get local channels. I could never receive the local channels in my RV until I had a Direct TV service technician come out and change some of the settings in my receiver. He changed the setting from 18 round to an 18x?? oval dish. This allowed my unit to receive more than one satellite.

I'm not sure what the installer did for you but there's no way that you were receiving from multiple satellites with that dish. At the current time all English language programming is broadcast on satellites at 101, 99 and 103. All the SD programming comes from 101 and and the HD broadcasting comes from 99 and 103 use a different frequency that your dish cannot receive.

As for local channels, they can only be received when you are within ~200 miles of your home city. They are spot-beamed and when you are outside the beam you won't be able to receive them.

The "regional settings" mentioned in the previous post don't have anything to do with receiving channels. They only affect the display on the guide.

Engle · 03-26-2014, 07:27 PM

DOCJ...I was just repeating what the Direct TV service tech told me. He was not familiar with RV dishes. The oval dish on my house does pick up more that one satellite. My receiver is set up thinking that it has an oval dish. He must have assumed that the King-Dome could do the same. As far as the local channels, with several phone calls and time on the internet, I found out that my local channels have moved to satellite 119. Direct TV shares that bird with Dish TV.
Local channels on Direct TV are broadcast by several different satellites. The geographical location has nothing to do with it. Satellite 119 has stations from Mobile, Alabama to stations out west and even stations in the Caribbean. all of my regular Direct TV is broadcast on Satellite 101. www.lyngsat.com will tell you what is on just about every satellite, where it is locates, etc. So I guess now I will have to move from 101 to satellite 119 for local news. P.I.T.A.

docj · 03-26-2014, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Engle

DOCJ...I was just repeating what the Direct TV service tech told me. He was not familiar with RV dishes. The oval dish on my house does pick up more that one satellite. My receiver is set up thinking that it has an oval dish. He must have assumed that the King-Dome could do the same. As far as the local channels, with several phone calls and time on the internet, I found out that my local channels have moved to satellite 119. Direct TV shares that bird with Dish TV.
Local channels on Direct TV are broadcast by several different satellites. The geographical location has nothing to do with it. Satellite 119 has stations from Mobile, Alabama to stations out west and even stations in the Caribbean. all of my regular Direct TV is broadcast on Satellite 101. www.lyngsat.com will tell you what is on just about every satellite, where it is locates, etc. So I guess now I will have to move from 101 to satellite 119 for local news. P.I.T.A.

Here's the list of SD local channels that are currently on the 119 satellite: DirecTV USA on DirecTV 7S at 119.0°W - LyngSat

Yes, an oval dish with multiple LNBs could receive them (at your house), but the round dish and single LNB on your RV dish cannot unless the dish is re-aimed. It's more than just having the oval dish; the focal points for the different satellites are in different positions and there have to be LNBs at those positions. Just telling your RV system that the dish is an oval isn't going to do anything.

Since local channels can only be received within ~200mi of your home city anyway, they're not going to be that useful to you in the RV unless you only take short trips. You can augment them with over-the-air reception and you can even use an AM21 tuner that integrates OTA signals with your DirecTV guide (in many cities).