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My coach has an in motion satellite dish already installed. I'm looking at
buying a receiver. Does anyone have any recommendations on a service? Any pros
and cons regarding Dish Network or Direct TV?

Also, I'm thinking about installing a dish at my home and having an additional
receiver in the coach. Will the satellite companies allow this without having to
purchase two separate services since I'll be using two separate dishes.

Any information, good or bad, will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Randy Merrill
2003 40' LX
Ocala, FL

The satellite companies will certainly allow it if you don't tell them

Just count the coach unit as another bedroom.

Since they now often use spot beams for local channels, your local channels may fail when you are far from home.  If you live far enough in the boonies to sign up for the "distant" network stations, those are, last time I looked, on the main nationwide beam.

I dropped Dish Network years ago because they required a separate contract for the coach. Direct TV does not require a separate contract. We have Direct TV for the house and the coach. We have a receiver box that stays with the 'Bird...and many receiver boxes in the house. All is good.


Curt Sprenger
1987 PT38 8V92 "MacAttack Racing"
Anaheim Hills, CA
"curtsprenger@gmail.com"

Distant Networks is a fairly complicated topic in terms of how to get it and
what is offered. A number of years ago Dish lost the right to offer them, so
Dish users have to use a secondary service to get them; that one provides feeds
from Atlanta and San Francisco.

DirecTV offers LA/New York feeds.

I went the other way - got a "mobile" DirecTV account (and therefore Distant
Networks) on my RV, and then put a fixed dish on my house. Most users don't get
another receiver for the RV and just move it back-and-forth as desired. Since I
have a DVR setup to record just what I want I wouldn't really like to use two
different ones anyway.

On 4/12/2011 at 12:05 PM Dorn Hetzel wrote:

>The satellite companies will certainly allow it if you don't tell them
>
>Just count the coach unit as another bedroom.
>
>Since they now often use spot beams for local channels, your local channels
>may fail when you are far from home. If you live far enough in the boonies
>to sign up for the "distant" network stations, those are, last time I
>looked, on the main nationwide beam.
>
>On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Randall wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> My coach has an in motion satellite dish already installed. I'm looking
>at
>> buying a receiver. Does anyone have any recommendations on a service? Any
>> pros and cons regarding Dish Network or Direct TV?
>>
>> Also, I'm thinking about installing a dish at my home and having an
>> additional receiver in the coach. Will the satellite companies allow this
>> without having to purchase two separate services since I'll be using two
>> separate dishes.
>>
>> Any information, good or bad, will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Randy Merrill
>> 2003 40' LX
>> Ocala, FL
>>
>>
>>

Randy, your current in motion receiver will DICTATE what service ( Dish or Direct TV) you can use unless you want to purchase a new dish to have a choice in the service, which I would not recommend because of cost. Both should be equal in programs I would think.



I have Direct TV in my vacation home and have additional direct TV in the Bird. I watch 2TV's from one receiver in the Bird(you need two receivers if you want to watch two separate programs at the same time in the coach). Some coaches have 2 dishes for this $$$$$$

unless you are wired for two



I called Direct TV and found that the additional receiveris $6.00 addition to my house account and with a form that you can get on line from Direct TV they will give you East Coast OR West Coast Network TV for addition charge of $15.00, it use to be both sides of the states but DTV said the FCC said that that was a No NO, well I think that is a BS from the US. You will need to document your ownership to Direct TV with a copy of the Registration and a statement that you will use it in your coach, no big deal. My bill states that total charge for "Total Choice" is $57.49 per month, But I am at myVacation home 3-4 days a week so the charge could be lower with out the Total choice package. This package also has XM radio which I think is GREAT!! love those oldies, and naughty jokes



The system works great but you have to have a clear viewof the south for reception at your campsite it will work out thru some trees but when you are traveling (moving) there is speratic reception in some cases when you are going east bound on the freeway which is the worst since thedish is looking at trees on the side of the road here inMichigan. West bound is better if the trees are not too thick on the other side of the road of the east bound lanes.North and south is the best since it is clear view to both directions.



If you end up with Direct TV and you do not use the coach much over a period of time you some times will not get programming and you would need to UNPLUG the receiver when it is powered onand wait 30 second and then plug it back in and it will reset itself. I do this most of the time on the receiver because they can'tget a signal on your telephone line. If you want to watch Pay per view you just call DTV on800# and order any one you want, there is a extra $1.00 above the cost of the movie in these cases.At hme you just order on the TV and you get billed each month



Work Great!

Scooter2000LX OcQueoc, MI

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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:01:51 +0000
Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Satellite Service Provider