I gave my daughter one of our Directv receiver to take to college. She goes to Michigan State in East Lansing Michigan. We had Green Bay local channels at home. Now at college she gets all the channels except local channels. It just says searching for satellite. Can this be fixed or do we just live with out them?

If your daughter wants local channels, it will have to be the ones serving East Lansing, not Green Bay.

Note: she would have to subscribe for service separate from yours because a given subscription is only supposed to serve a single house address. So it would be a full-blown single subscription, not mirroring your subscription as before. Which probably means DirecTv would need to send a new access card associated with her new subscription.

So, if you don’t want to go through the trouble, your daughter can just use that receiver for the satellite channels, and prop up a pair of bunny ears for local. That is, if the multipath fading in the dorms doesn’t make a total mess of the off-air signal.