Over the years we progressed up the DTV chain from portable dishes to not so portable dishes. During all of these transitions we used the same receiver at home and in the rig.
We're quite satisfied with our current 5 channel HD receiver/recorder. We always have recorded shows to watch when we're in the trees. But more valuable is that we time shift watching and skip the commercials. And recorded shows move with the receiver between home and rig.
The technology is SWM which is a single coax from the dish to the receiver and on to any additional client receivers (we don't have any). DTV calls it the Gennie system and our receiver is the HR44.
I'm told that we can receive all of the channels from the 3 birds in any of the 48 states and it worked equally well in Alaska. I assume that Hawaii also has coverage. This doesn't help with the OPs Dish problem and is just food for thought.
