Dual Antenna

mtrumpet wrote:
Do you mean, something like this?

That's the combination I mentioned in my first post up thread. it's not really a "dual" antenna, just a Roadstar OTA antenna sharing the lift mechanism with the crank up dish.

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Same for me with directv

quote=Dutch_12078]Winegard sells a crank up manually aimed roof mount satellite dish that has an OTA antenna attachment. The attachment is one of the "RoadStar" omni-directional antennas though, making it not a very good choice unless the local towers are always pretty close to you. That's the only "combined" sat/OTA setup I'm aware of. You would likely be better off with Winegard's Sensar (batwing) OTA antenna that includes their Wingman UHF enhancement and a separate satellite antenna, perhaps one of the portable automatic aiming models for maximum flexibility. Which model would depend on which service provider you want to use. We use the Dish network sat service, and have no problems changing our service location as we move about the country to receive the local stations serving the area where we are.

rookie_rv wrote:
When I travel by myself I really don't need/watch satellite. But when my wife is on board she like having access to satellite.

So you're at least going to need either a DISH or DirecTV sat dish of some kind, right?

With DISH (and I think DirecTV) you can receive your sat TV programming + your local TV stations via a sat dish as long as you're in range of those local TV stations (figure a couple hundred miles).

Also with DISH, once out of range of your local stations, you can change your "Service Address" to your current campground and get the local TV stations for that area -- not your locals from back home though. I don't think DirecTV allows you to change your locals with every new campground. DISH does.

YC 1 wrote:

bukzin wrote:

YC 1 wrote:
Direct tv has a box that will combine your locals too but you still need a separate antenna.

Sounds good. What is that model number and approx. cost?

Thx

over the air receiver

This plugs into your DVR via a usb cable. Your AC cord is plugged into the new box and then the new box is plugged into AC. The DVR recognizes the unit and will scan for over the air channels when you do a very simple setup. Signal strength is available as well as downloading channels via your zip code. You can delete unwanted channels. It will record them too. If a storm blocks your satellite signal you still have the over the air signals.

I can't seem to get that link to open. Tried Chrome and Firefox
on my Windows desktop, no luck.

bukzin wrote:

YC 1 wrote:
Direct tv has a box that will combine your locals too but you still need a separate antenna.

Sounds good. What is that model number and approx. cost?

Thx

link

This plugs into your DVR via a usb cable. Your AC cord is plugged into the new box and then the new box is plugged into AC. The DVR recognizes the unit and will scan for over the air channels when you do a very simple setup. Signal strength is available as well as downloading channels via your zip code. You can delete unwanted channels. It will record them too. If a storm blocks your satellite signal you still have the over the air signals.

Do you mean, something like this?

wa8yxm wrote:
Some Domes are duals but...With DISHnetwork domes do not dual well (Explanation follows) and with Direct they do not do HDTV.

DISH type antennas are usually Duals. and will work find provided you get the correct dish,, Epically ground mounts.

The promised explanation:
WIth Dish Network they spread programming over 3 satellites (Birds) and if you want to watch a program on say 119 and your partner wants to watch a program on say 110.. Joy will not be yours with a dome since they can see all 3, but not at one time (one at a time) Dishes have multiple LNBs and can see all 3 (if you get the proper dish) at once.

DirecTV is on 101 W, all on one bird,but DircHDTV is in a different frequncy band which domes can not receive.. So again the DiSH type antenna works fine.

The "dual" antenna the OP asked about is a combined OTA and sat unit. That doesn't exist as a single antenna combination...

YC 1 wrote:
Direct tv has a box that will combine your locals too but you still need a separate antenna.

Sounds good. What is that model number and approx. cost?

Thx

Since you are still looking for the best antenna to receive both local and network channels, it would seem the Winguard Traveler would do the trick. Granted the locals are coming in on the sat service, but still you would get what you like.

We have Dish service and it seem to do exactly what we want. The coach also has the crankup antennae which works fine but we have never used it. We always have a bunch of pre-recorded programs to watch it sat service is poor but that is rare.

With our Hopper at one end and the joey at the other we can easily watch separate programs without fuss or bother. For us at least this has proven to be an ideal setup and Dish if very good about letting us change our service address to receive locals.

Both the house and MH are on the same account so the MH only costs and extra 15.00/mo or so.