Satellite service possibilities

TechWriter wrote:

ljr wrote:

If you spend any time in the eastern US there are limitations to Dish and a Winegard Trav'lr. Best stick with Direct or avoid the Trav'lr. (That's from one who didn't and regrets it. )

That's why I carry a tripod. BTW, I'll take a 16-tuner Hopper over a 5-tuner Genie anyday.

Then I'd suggest the OP get a good tripod and meter and stick with the portable if they prefer Dish. I would if I had it to do over.

ljr wrote:

If you spend any time in the eastern US there are limitations to Dish and a Winegard Trav'lr. Best stick with Direct or avoid the Trav'lr. (That's from one who didn't and regrets it. )

That's why I carry a tripod. BTW, I'll take a 16-tuner Hopper over a 5-tuner Genie anyday.

If you want a great RV satellite installer, call Dave at Sats2Go
281-564-2828 make an appointment and stop by Willis TX (Houston area) and let him do the install on your way to the Northeast. He is the RV satellite "guru" in my opinion and we drive from Florida to have him work on our satellite stuff. www.sats2go.com
Dave sells the satellite dishes and has DirecTV equipment he can install and he activates it for you and explains how to use it. He does quality work for reasonable prices.
We stay at Rayford Crossing RV Resort in The Woodlands TX and he comes to your site to do the work.

TechWriter wrote:

2cAmerica wrote:
Becoming Fill-timers we are overwhelmed with the new aspects we are learning about . . . We have 2 HD TVS. Is it possible to have a roof mounted satellite service that supports watching different programs on each of the TVs? . . . is it possible to have a DVR connected to only one of the HD TV's to record a program while watching a different program on the same tv?

For a full timer (like me), I'd suggest either a DirecTV Genie or a DISH Hopper system. Either one gives you the full capabilities of a home-based setup.

Both systems are Whole House (or RV) DVR systems that allow several HD TVs to be connected to a central DVR. Each TV can watch/record its own programming.

For either a Genie or Hopper system, your best (and easiest) bet is to install a rootop Winegard Travler automatic sat dish. This will set you back about $1200 - 1500.

When you're parked under trees, you can also use a tripod-mounted open-faced dish for either a Genie or a Hopper.

Finally, while they're fine systems for part-timers, for full timers I don't recommend rooftop domes or a ground-based antenna like the Tailgater, Carryout, Pathway, etc.

If you spend any time in the eastern US there are limitations to Dish and a Winegard Trav'lr. Best stick with Direct or avoid the Trav'lr. (That's from one who didn't and regrets it. )

We have DirecTV and utilize the Genie receiver so we can watch any channel, on any TV at any time. We like our HD TV so I had our roof top dish, Wingard Traveler, directly cabled to the main receiver because There may be or maybe not the correct coax cabling that is internal to the RV. We full time so our TV is very important to us and I especially like to watch sports so we went with the best system available.

In the old days all you needed to do was setup a portable SAT TV dish with a dual output head and run separate RG cable to each SAT RCVR location. This would pickup SAT TV from your present SAT TV HOME ACCOUNT anywhere in the USA. You would lose your LOCAL TV option however whenever you moved outside of your ZIP CODE area.

You would then connect each SAT RCVR to a separate TV setup. This will pick up standard TV signals at each location each controlled separately with the SAT TV remote.

What I did was feed the TV video input channel at each location in the RV with the SAT TV signal... Then I could use the TV remote to select CABLE TV, OTA TV, or SAT TV...

I did this for a few years picking up SAT TV in my RV but when the NATL BROADCAST SYSTEM came out with Digital HDTV I stopped bringing along all of my SAT TV items with on our RV camping trips. Full blown HDTV picked up from the OTA BATWING antenna was much much better than the standard SAT TV signals was giving us...

I have no idea how the HD SAT TV reception to multiple TV's is accomplished in today's HDTV setups in the RV... Sounds very expensive to me to do it...

Roy Ken

2cAmerica wrote:
Becoming Fill-timers we are overwhelmed with the new aspects we are learning about . . . We have 2 HD TVS. Is it possible to have a roof mounted satellite service that supports watching different programs on each of the TVs? . . . is it possible to have a DVR connected to only one of the HD TV's to record a program while watching a different program on the same tv?

For a full timer (like me), I'd suggest either a DirecTV Genie or a DISH Hopper system. Either one gives you the full capabilities of a home-based setup.

Both systems are Whole House (or RV) DVR systems that allow several HD TVs to be connected to a central DVR. Each TV can watch/record its own programming.

For either a Genie or Hopper system, your best (and easiest) bet is to install a rootop Winegard Travler automatic sat dish. This will set you back about $1200 - 1500.

When you're parked under trees, you can also use a tripod-mounted open-faced dish for either a Genie or a Hopper.

Finally, while they're fine systems for part-timers, for full timers I don't recommend rooftop domes or a ground-based antenna like the Tailgater, Carryout, Pathway, etc.

Moved from Class A forum.

Maybe off topic, but a Road trip Mission will not get direct TV in HD. Traveler will. Dish will get HD programing with the Misson dome.

I would start with something like .........This. With a second receiver you could watch different programs on the two TVs. The further north and east you go, getting a usable signal with this small a dish will become difficult.


To get a useable signal in Nova Scotia you will need a dish more like this.