Help me understand DirectTV local programming
Today I took advantage of the CW weekend Internet pricing on the Winegard carryout pricing and ordered the dome and the tripod for what I consider to be a good price. When talking to Direct TV abou...
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This does not exactly apply to your situation, but some have said that you can only get locals within a certain distance from your home address and that isn't always true. Some markets like the SF Bay Area have standard definition locals available on the 101W satellite. We have cheap 18" round dish on a tripod and take our non-DVR simple receiver with us and can watch our locals anywhere that 101W reaches. Our last trip was to Bandon, OR, which is over 500 miles away and we were able to watch our locals. HD locals do have the distance restriction because they are on spot beams.
