New DISH Subscriber With Questions
We took delivery of the new MH a couple of weeks ago and are on its maiden voyage. Banana Boat III is equipped with a Winegard Trav'ler automatic satellite dish and a DISH network Vip722k receiver/DV...
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ReneeG wrote:Dutch_12078 wrote:dan-nickie wrote:
Get an OTA Module from SolidSignal to connect to your roof antenna. Then scan for the local channels yourself. You will get more local channels and they will all be HD.
The OP has a VIP211k receiver that has OTA reception built in. The newer and less featured VIP211z would need the OTA USB module. Using OTA of course, assumes always parking in areas with good OTA reception.
Plus, you still have to get satellite signal. This wouldn't work in the case of too many trees and no satellite signal, so you'd have to have an HD manual antenna to get OTA signal.
My OTA antenna feeds both the sat receiver and the TV. If there's no sat signal, I don't need to turn the receiver on, just the TV with the mode switched from HDMI to antenna.
