We started out with just a Dish pay-as-you-go account for our RV. When we started traveling nearly full time, we dropped the cable TV service at the upstate NY cottage we use as our base now, and added an extra Hopper to our Dish account and installed a permanent dish there. The added cost was only $12/month, although I believe that has since gone up to $15 for new Hopper additions. Certainly a lot less costly than the cable service was anyway. The only down side is that the cottage receiver loses the area local channels when we change our service address as we travel. That's not really an issue though, since the cottage receiver gets the area locals over the air as well. We often use the Dish Anywhere app to set the cottage receiver to record programs that we'll miss while underway for later viewing. For the RV, we use a portable tripod mounted triple satellite dish that typically takes me less than 15 minutes to set up and aim. I can equip it for either of the two Dish satellite arcs, and to date, we have not found ourselves on a site where I couldn't get service from one arc or the other, regardless of how heavy the tree cover was. It has taken as much as 150' of coax to get a clear view a couple of times, but today I only needed about half that.