Rv satellite use for home

wa8yxm wrote:
Finally Disclaimer/warning time:
Both Dish and Direct will tell you that you must have a different account for yoru Home and your RV.. What they can not tell you, since you only use one at a time, is WHY other than they are money grubbing "Almighty God's a Dollar and there's not enough for me" types. So I am going to tell you not to brag about it.. I did NOT do this when I had Dish/Direct. If I wished to watch a "Sat TV show" I went out to the motor home.

Not correct for DTV (and I guess Dish). 2 accounts are required if TV is being used at home and the RV at the same time. Frankly John I see the logic in this requirement.

We move our DTV receiver to the MH and call to change the local channels as we travel all with one account since 2004. Never a problem as we are "a very valuable customer".

chefalan1 wrote:
Starting to travel 2017. Keeping st/bricks to return some of the year. Don't want to pay for tv rates while house is sitting. Has anyone ever tried to Rv satellite and receivers in the house. Seems it should be no difference which tvs it is hooked up to. May only have small internet for home computers but no landline. Always trying to keep a reign on the travel budget. I would rather spend our money on the road to enjoy than wasting it on tvs not in use. Please don't laugh at us but any opinions would be appreciated.
Chefalan/Arbonne Bonnie

Though the VIP-211 series of DISH receivers is marketed toward RVers the fact is the only thing special about it is the ability to power and control the Tailgater Antenna.

Yes, you can use it in the house, The following conditions apply depending on your antenna.

RV antenna; Rooftop: If the RV is close enough to the house (like 100 feet) you can actually use it, you will need to add a bit of RG-6 to re-route the antenna's feed to outside (I can make suggestions if needed)

If RV antenna is portable (IE: Tailgater for Dish Winegard Pathfinder) No special instructions needed, use it at home.

If you use a Ground mounted Tripod with a genuine DISH shaped antenna

Same as using it in the RV, Point, and Shoot.

And that's it. that is actually ALL there is to it,

OH. If you are a DirecTV subscriber.. Dome type antennas like the pathfinder do not work with DirecHDTV and non HD is beind discontinued soon, AT&T has announced they wish to go out of the Sat-TV business as well... Sorry.

But the RV qualifies for Distant Network Service, Get the form, fill it out, fax it and a copy of the REGISTRATION for the RV, and if your account was set up as an RV account for a slight extra fee you get Network (ABC/CBS/ET-al) stations out of the greater NYC area or LA area. If you get DNS they are not supposed to give you locals. But they did give them to me when I was a subscriber and near my home.

(Yes, that is a violation of Federal law. The same one that goe DISH out of the DNS business. Think about this). With DISH this is not an issue since they do not offer DNS, but you just call 'em and tell 'em where you are and they change you over.

Finally Disclaimer/warning time:
Both Dish and Direct will tell you that you must have a different account for yoru Home and your RV.. What they can not tell you, since you only use one at a time, is WHY other than they are money grubbing "Almighty God's a Dollar and there's not enough for me" types. So I am going to tell you not to brag about it.. I did NOT do this when I had Dish/Direct. If I wished to watch a "Sat TV show" I went out to the motor home.

We've been using the home receivers in the RV for years. Works great. We have a Winegard Trav'ler on the roof. It works great too.

Dave

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.

Tinstar wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
Yes! Really now! There used to be a requirement that all receivers on an account be plugged into a phone line. Dish (and DirecTV) would dial the number and if the receiver did not answer they would shut it down.

I don't know about that Bill. I've had Dish network since about 1992 and have never had a phone line hooked up to it. In fact, they installed it without a phone line and it has never been shut down either.

totally agree. never seen or heard of such a thing

Bill.Satellite wrote:
Yes! Really now! There used to be a requirement that all receivers on an account be plugged into a phone line. Dish (and DirecTV) would dial the number and if the receiver did not answer they would shut it down.

I don't know about that Bill. I've had Dish network since about 1992 and have never had a phone line hooked up to it. In fact, they installed it without a phone line and it has never been shut down either.

chefalan1 wrote:
Starting to travel 2017. Keeping st/bricks to return some of the year. Don't want to pay for tv rates while house is sitting. Has anyone ever tried to Rv satellite and receivers in the house. Seems it should be no difference which tvs it is hooked up to. May only have small internet for home computers but no landline. Always trying to keep a reign on the travel budget. I would rather spend our money on the road to enjoy than wasting it on tvs not in use. Please don't laugh at us but any opinions would be appreciated.
Chefalan/Arbonne Bonnie

Satellite TV receivers are completely interchangeable from home to RV. I would suggest that you have Dish (or DirecTV) do a complete installation in your home and you would then move the receivers they installed in your RV when you travel. The only caveat is that you must have the correct type of antenna in your RV to work with the equipment installed by your satellite TV provider. That's not a big deal but the prices of those antenna vary from cheap but time consuming to setup to expensive and fully automatic.

usersmanual wrote:

Tom N wrote:
I've had an RV account since 2002 and have used those receivers in my home when we're home. At one time the satellite providers required all receivers to be in one location but that requirement has seemed to fade away. It used to be in their Terms of Service. This was to keep someone from having 2, 3, 4 or more receivers and giving them to all their friends and neighbors.

Anyway, I'm current home and have my new DTV Genie setup here and when we go in the motorhome they go with me so you're good to go with what you want to do. IMHO

really now, How would dishnet know if your receiver was in your house or one a block away?

Yes! Really now! There used to be a requirement that all receivers on an account be plugged into a phone line. Dish (and DirecTV) would dial the number and if the receiver did not answer they would shut it down.

For several years I moved the receiver to the RV and back again. A couple of years ago I simply had Dish install a New Hopper and a Joey in the mh and kept it on the same account....called the MH a guest house. I think the extra cost is ~12.00/month give or take.

The receiver doesn't know or care where it is as long as it's properly connected to a dish. Chuck