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Dastagg
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Aug 12, 2014

Tailgater and Local Stations

Just bought a Dish Tailgater. While traveling, I want to keep locals and Dish told me
I only need to call them with address of RV and they would push locals for area I am in. Question is, what about my home DVR? Do I keep locals for home for preset recordings too, or does my locals change while I am traveling with separate locals or otherL
  • I agree with above. If both are on the same account, both the RV and your home receivers will be changed. Of course your home can't actually receive those and if you have the home DVR set to record favorite programs at home you will not get them recorded.

    But as for changing locals in the RV it is easy. When you call Dish be sure to say you are in your RV and want to change your service address, not your billing address. After a few minutes, and sometimes a receiver reset, you will get the nearest locals. You do need to give them a valid local address when you call.
  • Your home receiver(s) on the same account will lose the locals entirely, unless your new service address happens to still be within the same spot beam as your home. In that case, your home receivers will receive the locals for the new market also. Most of the spot beams only span a few hundred miles.

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