getting hd tv in woods
when camping in woods sometimes cant get reception from dish do to trees has anyone used a mobile hot spot to get wifi and using a sling box or another form to get tv
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Several questions - so here goes
No. Your home local channels are from what is called a spot beam. Think of shining a tight flashlight beam on a globe. Once you get outside that area - about 400-500 miles across - those channels are not sent to other regions.
The coverage areas tend to be smaller in the highly populated east coast region and large in the thinly populated west mountain/ desert regions.
From the post earlier in the thread - he is talking about normal over the air broadcast of the national networks - ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and PBS - not from a satellite provider.
I don't have Slingbox - so I will leave that to someone else.
One question - do you have Direct TV or Dish?
That is important to how folks can help you.
bigred1cav wrote:
Say I'm in the woods of NC and would want to watch the 6pm news of my home local channels. Is that a possibility of these services?
No. Your home local channels are from what is called a spot beam. Think of shining a tight flashlight beam on a globe. Once you get outside that area - about 400-500 miles across - those channels are not sent to other regions.
The coverage areas tend to be smaller in the highly populated east coast region and large in the thinly populated west mountain/ desert regions.
bigred1cav wrote:
Tell me all the good bad and ugly of the National
From the post earlier in the thread - he is talking about normal over the air broadcast of the national networks - ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and PBS - not from a satellite provider.
I don't have Slingbox - so I will leave that to someone else.
One question - do you have Direct TV or Dish?
That is important to how folks can help you.
