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I want my Direct tv to be in my vacation house too!

This question was mailed in by D.B.D.

I currently have an account with DirectTV. And I have several receivers hooked up in various rooms. I would like to take one of my receivers and install it in another location (vacation house). I know I need a new sat dish. But what kind of cable and other connectors would I need to acquire in order to hook it up to an old cable-tv infrastructure outside the house so I can get it to the TV inside via the old cable TV cabling system?

And do you sell all of that stuff? And for how much? I’m guessing I’d need the dish, about 40 feet at the most of the sat cable, and I’d need whatever kind of adaptor needed to attach into my old cable system where it goes into my house.

Thanks.

My Reply:

Hi, After you get a dish with the LNB and mounting brackets you would need RG-6 cable, F-Connector Fittings (the end that attaches to the satellite Receiver), Barrels (used to splice or join two F-Connector ends together).

Something to keep in mind if you use any existing wiring. Some older homes still have “59 cable”. This cable is thinner and is not well insulated. If it does have the old “59 Cable” then you would not want to use it.

You can get everything you need at Home Depot. You will also need a pair of crimpers so you will be able to crimp your F-Connector Fittings on. If your wiring is RG-6 then all you would need to do is Mount your Dish, attach the new Cable to the LNB, run the wire down to the location of your cable TV connection, figure out the wire that goes to the tv you want satellite on and attach your satellite TV cable to it.

You should be able to get a Directv Dish with the LNB and mounting brackets from EBay at a good price.

When you are buying your fittings, don’t waist your money on the Gold Plated stuff. Allot of times they will tell you it’s better but it’s not.

this is a PDF Directv Receiver owners manual, in it you will find some additional information on setting up the dish so it points to the correct Satellites.
http://www.kaptainsatellite.com/pdfmanuals/Director.pdf

I hope this has answered your question if not let me know.

dave
aka-kapsat

His Reply

Wow! That was very thorough. Thank you so much!
dbd

It’s alway’s nice to hear i was helpful

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