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

If you want just the basic (regular) programming, find an old single LNB dish, (mount on a good tripod that the wind won't blow away) at a garage sale, and connect it. If you want what you got at home, then match your home dish. Or buy an automatic portable or roof mounted dome. Or spend big bucks, drive it in and tell'm to fix it ! :)

We are away from home several weeks each month so have a dedicated receiver for the RV. I use a single LNB Winegard folding dish that sits on the ground. It is rarely affected by wind but may require extra coax to find a suitable location. When folded it hangs vertical in a storage compartment taking up very little space.

When I was doing this I did the ame as above except I used a TWO port HEAD. This allowed me to run a RG cable to both of the TV locations and watch separate channels. This requires two SAT RCVRs brought along with you.

I would also run the VIDEO OUTPUT of the SAT RCVR to the video input of each TV set. Once setup you can select SAT TV or CABLE/OTA TV by using your remote control.

Worked great for us but after the NATL BROADCAST came out with there digital HDTV we stopped bringing along the SAT RCVR stuff with. Using the OTA BATWING Antenna picked up 6-36 digital High Def TV from the local towns just about everywhere we went here on the east side of the USA. Using the OTA BATWING Antenna keeps us from worrying about someone running off with our SAT DISH.

HIGH DEF HDTV for free is much better viewing than the SAt TV was giving us. We mostly like to watch the national broadcast local channels anyway. Occasionally we will downstream a cable TV station on the internet if we really want to watch something on it.

OTA BATWING antenna works great for us watching NCIS and HAWAII 5-O and local town RADAR weather conditions when camping off the power grid... What more do you want to watch haha...

Roy Ken

We have a roof mounted Wineguard Travelr and carry a 3 LNB dish for when we get under the tree's. Gives all the HD we normally watch. Our OTA batwing works good for the locals.

Dave

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I connect our receiver to the Tailgater and watch tv.