Our experience with DISH has been just the opposite. Easy peasy from day one and it still is.
Our motor home came with a Winegard Road Trip Mission, installed by the previous owner, but no receiver. We didn't use the satellite dish for the first year. When we decided to start using it we bought a DISH ViP 211z receiver. I changed the DIP switches on the satellite dish from the default Direct TV settings, we picked out a DISH Pay-As-You-Go plan and I called DISH while sitting in the RV. It was pretty much automatic after that as the dish found the satellites, the receiver was activated, and the channel guide was populated.
It has worked flawlessly ever since but, admittedly, the rig has never been idle long enough for us to let the subscription lapse under the pay-as-you-go plan. Still, after a period of inactivity, I turn on the receiver, then turn on the antenna, the antenna does its search thing, the receiver downloads the channel guide, and we're back in business again. That's all there is to it .
