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Where's home?

We have had Dish for over two years. We put the Dish on a tripod, use the 220? receiver for two T.V.'s. We use home address and have been 1000 miles from home and still picked up our local network channels which is nice for news from home. Use the over the air antenna for network channels in the area we are located. This has worked well for us, but that is just for what it is worth.

Way to go gregoryj... you should get a millon for that simple invention.

Here is the dish mount I made and use. Home made from 1 1/2" plastic plumbing pipe with the dish mounted up side down which keeps the weight low to the ground so a wind won't disturb it. It a typical 18" Dishnet single LNB dish.

I connect our receiver to the Tailgater and watch tv.

If you are staying in a new area for some time, that is out of your home spotbeam area, you can trade the areas. You will not receive your home local channels, but you will receive the 4 major networks thru your new area's local channels. Just have the new address ready, and call DTV, and tell them you want a temporary address change, take them about 30 seconds to change it. I would guess Dish will do that too.

Side not about dish (Partially applies to DirecTV as well)

NETWORK programming (ABC, NBC, CBS and so on) is provided via your local stations, Dish (And Direc) are reauired to carry all "A" level stations (not sure about b and c, and the letters refer to signal strength) if your house is in the "Z" band (no signal, no way, no how) then you quaify for Distant Network Service .. which Dish is currently unable to offer. More on that later.

Else, the shows are "SPOT BEAMED" to your house (Think of a spot light shining on a map of the country where your house is.. Same thign exactly.)

If you drive out of the spot.. you will be in the dark (Unable to watch network TV).

Up till recently DISH offered All American Direct's DNS service, but AAD, decided to drop out of that market for some reason (I have no clue, or suspicions, not even speculation so do not ask)

The one "Suspicion" I do have.. is that DISH is looking for another 3rd party DNS provider.

X2 on the Traveler 1000. It acts just like the dish on our stick home. I bought the "recommended" by Dish 211z and attached a hard drive for DVR capability. Only had one tuner. When I looked for a second receiver, I learned that any receiver in the house would work so we can now have two two tuner DVRs when we travel. Just like at home. DW never misses her prime time reality TV and I never miss my cable network series. I just wish broadband were more available at parks so I could stream Netflix without maxing out my Verizon LTE.

64thunderbolt wrote:
What are you guys doing when you take your receiver on the road. I have dish Network.

Not sure what you actually mean here, but I assume you're asking "how" we set up our DISH receivers.

In the past we have just removed our 722 and installed it in our mh with the #1 outlet to the front TV and the #2 outlet to the rear TV. This worked pretty good, except since we hardly ever watch the same programs, we had to share the recordings. So if watching on the #1 receiver while recording on the #2 receiver, the rear TV had to watch either what was being recorded or watch another recording...could not watch a live program.

So this year, we are taking two 722s. One for the front TV and one for the rear. Should solve our problems.

Now, if you're asking for specific wiring procedures, let us know.

Ron

ps.. I assume you have a 64 tbolt clone...right? I too have one that I've built over the years. Right now I'm in the process of installing a built 351c in it with a top loader and 9 inch.

I have HD 1000.4 at home and on my RV Plus I also have the arm and LNBF for the Western Arc in case trees are blocking my Eastern arc reception.
Regular HD dish and nothing automatic. Totally satisfied.