How to implement a satellite system?
We've been around to enough CGs now to find that OTA (or cable) reception and channel availability can often be dismal to non-existent. Nothing's worse than not being able to watch Survivor, DWTS or ...
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Well, I'm certainly not an expert at this, but I do know that yes, you have to have a dish that is specific to your provider. You also have to have a receiver specific to your provider. Some dish antennas can be reconfigured for different providers but not the receiver....which by the way may or may not be a DVR (not PVR).
We have DISH (as opposed to DirectTV) and have two DISH 722 dual DVR receivers that i remove from the house and install in the motor home. On the motor home I have installed a Winegard Trav'ler dish antenna. With this combination I get HD on both of my tv's and each tv has its own dual DVR. This allows us to watch either or both tv's at the same time while recording another program on each of the tv's....or we can watch a recorded program on either or both tv's while recording two programs (4 total) on the two recorders.
You probably don't want to go this extensive system, so suffice to say, take your DVR from the house and connect it to your tv in your rv (preferably with HDMI) and also to an antenna that is matched to your provider.
Depending upon the distance you want to travel from your home and which provide you have, you may have to call the provider and give them your current location in order to receive the local network stations (ABC, CBS, NBC...etc). With DISH I can travel about 300 miles before I have to do this.
Hope this helps
Ron
We have DISH (as opposed to DirectTV) and have two DISH 722 dual DVR receivers that i remove from the house and install in the motor home. On the motor home I have installed a Winegard Trav'ler dish antenna. With this combination I get HD on both of my tv's and each tv has its own dual DVR. This allows us to watch either or both tv's at the same time while recording another program on each of the tv's....or we can watch a recorded program on either or both tv's while recording two programs (4 total) on the two recorders.
You probably don't want to go this extensive system, so suffice to say, take your DVR from the house and connect it to your tv in your rv (preferably with HDMI) and also to an antenna that is matched to your provider.
Depending upon the distance you want to travel from your home and which provide you have, you may have to call the provider and give them your current location in order to receive the local network stations (ABC, CBS, NBC...etc). With DISH I can travel about 300 miles before I have to do this.
Hope this helps
Ron
