Dish TV Pay-As-You-Go RV Plan
For those who do *not* currently have an active Dish account of any kind (home or otherwise), how does this plan operate? I'm getting conflicting information from Dish TV about how this program ope...
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PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:
It depends upon the antenna and the box you have.
Basically - Dish uses three satellites in the west, two in the east. If the antenna has one LNB, with is the case with almost all dome type dishes - it can only 'see' one satellite at a time. Two different TVs can watch different channels from Dish, IF they are on the same satellite. If they are on different satellites, no can do.
If you have a three LNB antenna - it can 'see' all three western satellites at the same time, and different channels on different satellites can be viewed at the same time.
Just to clarify, Dish has three eastern satellites as well as three western arc satellites. The third eastern satellite at 77 is mostly SD duplicates and can't be received by all dishes, but it's pretty handy at times for those of us that can use it.
