direct tv

RoyB wrote:
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...

Unless that receiver is located in a bedroom in your daughter's house, what you have done is called Theft of Service and is illegal.

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

Which thread is active.. both of them?? grr

rthibodaux wrote:
As of now I have dish, pay as you go, My son has Direct TV in his house. He does not have an RV but I do, So the million dollar question, If I buy another receiver can I get Direct TV about 200 miles from his house without interrupting his services. I have an Vanguard portable dish, I know I have to change the setting from Dish to Direct.

You may not care, any many don't, but this is called Theft of Services. The satellite service from all providers is meant for the residents of that property only. It is no different than your son getting an extra receiver and handing it out to the neighbor. Each household should be paying full prices but rather each only has to pay 1/2.
Now, if you are OK with that, the direct answer is that you can travel anywhere in the US, Canada or Mexico where the signal is available and you will be able to receive all channels and DTV will have no way of knowing what you are doing. The receivers cannot send any information to the provider unless they are plugged into a phone line (so don't do that).
What you will not get once you travel 200-500 miles from your son's address are any of the Network TV programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CW and PBS.

Without confusing you, you can get directv anywhere in the continental United States. You will not get your son's local channels beyond about a hundred miles or so. You will not be able to get the national locals out of New York or Los Angeles without changing his plan. But you will get all the other channels and if you have a roof antenna can get local channels over the air. Hope this helps. A second receiver on your son's account will add about $6.50 a month to his bill. Chuck

Look up the sat spot feed on a Sat feed Map and see if you are in his "oval" of local coverage ( don't have the web site for direct handy) .. You will get CNN HBO etc no matter where you are but the Local channels are what you may be out of range of
For the above comment the card doesn't need to "Talk" it just need to recieve so it doesn't need to be connected to a Phone line or internet to work as long as you aren't ordering pay per view via the TV.

Just FYI this is why the sat companies are concerned as they don't know where you are and feel that you being a separate person/ family should Buy your own service not "steal".... in their mind at least..... service. The reciever charge doesn't cover service in multiple locations. Otherwise 5 houses could share one account!!! I wouldn't discuss this with them in any way... They wont like it. (Its in the small print on your Son's agreement with them. )

How are you going to get the card for the receiver to talk to Direct TV?

We have DirectTV which we have "slaved" off a friends subscription and which we get nationwide. With the RV plan you choose to either receive New York or LA programming. In your case if you are only going 200mi from your sons house you should get local programming just with an additional decoder on his plan.