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Texas1949
Sep 01, 2013Explorer
Bill.Satellite wrote:
It's no more difficult to setup a tripod for Dish as it is for DirecTV as long as you have enough open sky. Once you have a good plumb and level tripod and have your skew settings correct, finding one satellite will usually bring in the others. It just takes practice. DirecTV's satellites are very close together so you don't need as much clear sky and they are also more centrally located in the US so coverage is not as much of an issue if you travel Coast to Coast.
Dish has a pay as you go service and DirecTV requires a 2 year contract.
I would look more toward which service you prefer and then buy the antenna that works with that service.
Thank you Bill.... I am leaning towards DirectTV. I have used the SD DirectTV and had no issues in set up, but only used one TV, now I want to use 2 TVs in the 5er.
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