Another Satellite Question
Please bear with me on another satellite question. I know answering them must be tiresome but please cut a girl and a newbie some slack! ?? ;)We have just bought our first and a brand new class c tha...
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Ed_Gee wrote:tinstartrvlr wrote:
As far as the locals, all you have to do is call Dish and tell them your current zip code and they will activate the locals for that area. I don't know this to be fact, but it seems you could give them any zip code and get whatever locals you want. I haven't tried it yet :)
Hope this helps.
This is true. Getting and changing Dish local channels is easy with a simple phone call...or better, use the Dish Customer Support Chat on the Internet. However, you must be honest about your location. Dish Local channels are broadcast from the satellite with spot beams. If you tell the the wrong location you won't be in the spot beam to receive those channels.
Guess I won't try to get strange locals, not that I really wanted to...just curious if it would work and it appears it won't. Learned something new today (spot beams):)
