I had directv at my weekend place for 5 yrs
just recently dropped them and switching to cable,
dont recall which i had outdoor/sportsman channel,
regardless the service sucked,
i watched rfdtv most of the time,
problems i had,
signal was lousy, cut out on cloudy days and cut out during every rainy day,
in north america hard to get a clear line to the satelite,
my dish was at a 30 degree angle which meant trees +300 ft away would block the signal
i couldnt get local channels at all.
directv has a policy of shutting off your service if you dont use it for like a week,
this was a weekend place and i had to call them to reset my service almost every weekend,
their tech support is not 24 hrs regardless what they say,
if i got to my place friday night at 10pm i would have to wait till saturday morning to get my service back.
i stopped my directv service like 3 weeks ago and i dont miss it,
will be getting cable in a couple weeks