Dish Network - No Network feeds after 2/25/2014

The Tailgater will have the same issues as any other DISH dish. It can only receive the locals that you are registered for or have called to have activated based on your current location. It uses all the same sats as any other DISH setup.

I don't know if this will help anyone, but we have a Tailgater and the 211k receiver. I finally discovered that the 211k has a TV tuner in it. The newer 211z (I think that's it) does not have a tuner, but you can buy an add-on for it. Anyway, now that I've found the tuner, I just tell the receiver to scan for locals when we are camped. It puts them right into the channel menu with the DISH channels. And for the major ones it also finds their guide info (programming and descriptions). It's very slick.

ya, I think this goes into the "much todo about nothing at all" file.

If you really need or want "local to you at this moment" news and weather, a call will do it, or it will be on your smartphone anyway.

Otherwise whatever you get on your EA or WA setup will continue to work just fine.


Dish has been moving toward "fewer birds" My new last fall S&B Dish Hopped setup only gets 2 birds, I think 72 and 77?
Where my WA setup in the bus needs 3 to get all channels (110, 119, 129)

jerseyjim wrote:
Might be time to move to DirecTV. Which is what I have at the house. Living room and bedroom. When leaving for an extended RV trip I take the bedroom box and put it in the motorhome.
While in, say, Phoenix, what do I care what the weather is in NYC? Running everything thru a passive switchbox, when I want the LOCAL networks, I simply put up the antenna,push the "ANT" button turn it on, and aim it. Then...back to DireCTV I push the "Satellite" button. Keeping things S&S, I do not have HD or any of the "options" like HBO or Sports packages. A single LNB dish with a tripod, strength meter and compass. Takes about 10 minits to set up.
Of course, if the park offers good cable, I push the "Cable" button.

Works for me......

Carbon copy of exactly what I do. Works fine for me as well. Only difference is that I have a KVH satellite dome on the roof -and- as of this coming spring, I will be replacing the original "batwing" antenna with a Winegard RM-DM61 combination manual crank up Satellite Dish/Digital air antenna.



Once I install it, it'll give me a redundant satellite dish when the unreliable KVH decides that it doesn't feel like working as it has been doing every once in awhile for about the past year.

Never been a fan of Dish Network. Have had DirecTV at home (and in MH) for several years now without any major issues.

I've thought all along that the DNS service was just another way for someone to make money. It's quick and painless to update your locals on Dish Network. Using the "Season Pass" feature on the DVR you can set up for recording new episodes of programs no matter what channel they are on.

I'm sorry for folks who like getting only east or west coast locals, but on a scale of 1 to 10 I'd say this service going away ranks a 2 or 3 at best - and it may even force some folks to save some money in spite of themselves.

Excuse me for my ignorance, but can't you just switch antennae feeds for locals by using OTA for the national channels in the area??? Once out of your local area I mean?

gasguzler wrote:
Excuse me for my ignorance, but can't you just switch antennae feeds for locals by using OTA for the national channels in the area??? Once out of your local area I mean?

Look back on the post by jerseyjim. It is dead on.

gasguzler wrote:
Excuse me for my ignorance, but can't you just switch antennae feeds for locals by using OTA for the national channels in the area??? Once out of your local area I mean?

If there OTA available. We frequently stay in an area of southern Colorado where there were no OTA at all and in the TX hill country where there are a couple of local OTA stations but no national network OTA channels available. In Colorado a quick phone call to Dish and we get Denver. In the TX hill country we get San Antonio/Austin.

BB_TX wrote:

gasguzler wrote:
Excuse me for my ignorance, but can't you just switch antennae feeds for locals by using OTA for the national channels in the area??? Once out of your local area I mean?

If there OTA available. We frequently stay in an area of southern Colorado where there were no OTA at all and in the TX hill country where there are a couple of local OTA stations but no national network OTA channels available. In Colorado a quick phone call to Dish and we get Denver. In the TX hill country we get San Antonio/Austin.

Exactly! We just left an area in central Florida (a bit south of Bushnell) where the only network channels available OTA were ABC and PBS with our twice amplified batwing. With our dish set up, it was a simple matter to chat with Dish CS and move our service address there so we could get the Orlando locals. Now we're further south near Lithia and still getting the Orlando locals. Sometime tomorrow I'll probably have it changed to the Ft Meyers locals, as that spot beam will cover us here and at the next two campgrounds as well, as we move south towards the Everglades. The next change won't occur until late March when we move north to Clermont.

I used to have Dish and I changed to Direct. I have a King Dome on my coach. The only thing that I had to change was the receiver. I pay an extra six dollars for the RV receiver per month. At home I have the Genie and the mini Genie in the bedroom. On the RV I have the more conventional DVR type receiver. Works great I do not have to be calling to get the local channels when I am out traveling.

I'll ask the dumb question of the day......

As I understand it, NYC & LA network feeds are NOT spot beamed like most other locals. If you gave Dish a service address of a CG in NYC or LA, would you not get the feed anywhere you travel?