DirecTV SlimLine Five dish installation with off air Antenna

My installation of my SlimLine 5 dish with off air antenna integration. You don't have to install this yourself. DirecTV will gladly do it for you, but I have been installing my own dishes for about 10 years so I always just do it. This is my 3rd SlimLine 5 dish I have set up. If you have the skills to do it I recommend you do. I have seen some pretty shoddy DTV installs. Plus its fun! ;-) You can get the dish and tools necessary to do it yourself off eBay.

If you have any questions feel free to ask. You are also supposed to use Solid Copper Core RG6, however I just used my existing RG6 which was Copper Clad Steel cable. Seems to work fine. Plus you are not supposed to use crimp style connectors, but I have bags of them and they always worked fine for me. I did this as simply as a I could. It is very hot outside!! ;-)

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• slimline
• band
• converter
• antenna
• directv
• dish

[SantinoFuentes]

I don't have any issues with HD channels. My signal is very high. It seemed the supplied bolts didn't fit correctly with the square holes when they were the other way around. I have installed other HD dishes and they are fine too. I installed one and when the installer came out to give me an HD dish and a receiver he was shocked about it and didn't believe it worked. He took off the LNB and checked the signals and was puzzled how I got it so high. He just screwed the LNB back on and left it.

[mythril4]

IF I had to upgrade this job I would have to rebuild it from scratch. If you put yout tilt screws in the correct way then you can reach them with the wrench easy. Fine tuning is otherwise known as dithering and it is very easy to do.

Diplexers are bad for this dish, HD channels will fail first. The frequencys are 2 to 2150Mhz the diplexer does not run that high.

I am one of the top 10 installers in the west, I have a near 0 return service rate which means systems don't fail when I leave.

[calidoso74]

this is a unsfull tip

[dhide14]

not sure why my comments were removed......what I was trying to say, is that you put the bolts connecting the backplate in the wrong direction. The threads and nuts should be outside towards you for easy tuning of the tilt. I'm not even sure how you were able to tighten those lol

[SantinoFuentes]

@dhide14 that would make sense. always seems like it didn't fit properly the other way with the bolts as they are square hole bolts and the other way around it doesn't have the square holes i thought. I know i tried it and thought this doesn't seem to want to work correctly like that.

[SantinoFuentes]

@dhide14 made for a decent conversation piece