What we did here was purchase another SAT receiver and had my daughter add me on to their account as an additional bedroom. Was $5 a month to do this I think it was... This makes it all legal...
Be sure to carry all of the account information with you as for us everytime we would disconnect the SAT RCVR we had to always reset the service for that rcvr..
You can also do this ONLINE if you have the account info and SAT RCVR ACCESS Card info...
We would always lose the local stations as soon as we left the assigned zip code area...
Picking up the local DIGITAL HDTV BROADCAST STATIONS works fine for us picking them up with the OTA BATWING antenna from the local towns we are in...
This is what worked for us a few years back when we did this - I suppose things haven't changed all that much since then...
Roy Ken