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jamesu
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Feb 14, 2019

Dish Antenna

We currently have Dish Network at home. When we go on long camping trips we would like to view our current recordings on TV. We see so many models of dish playmaker/tailgater antennas; how do we know which on will work for us? It would seem that a permanent dish antenna would be more convenient but are there any cautions we should know of?
Has anyone had good or bad experiences?
  • jamesu wrote:
    We currently have Dish Network at home. When we go on long camping trips we would like to view our current recordings on TV. We see so many models of dish playmaker/tailgater antennas; how do we know which on will work for us? It would seem that a permanent dish antenna would be more convenient but are there any cautions we should know of?
    Has anyone had good or bad experiences?


    Assuming you have a Hopper DVR then this may be what you want.
    https://www.dish.com/equipment/dvrs/hoppergo/
  • Fire19 wrote:
    If you have a DVR receiver from Dish you do not need signal to watch what is recorded at least I don't on my 722K.

    Ditto
  • If you have a DVR receiver from Dish you do not need signal to watch what is recorded at least I don't on my 722K.
  • We love our Traveler in motion permanent dish on our roof. The wife can watch TV on long trips. The only downside is a highly treed campsite. I have spent 30 mins moving forward and backward trying to get a signal. This year we purchased an X2 portable dish for those treed sites, so I am looking forward to using that as well for TV. We do travel some places where you just cant pull in an OTA channel, and our Dish service has local channels plus, we wouldn't travel without it.

    As far as recordings you made at home, you would have to carry that DVR box to your RV and take it with you, as it stores those recordings on a hard drive within the receiver.
  • I have DTV and I don't need any satellite signal to watch recordings...assuming you mean recordings on your receiver.

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