Switching From DTV to Dish With Camper
Hi, I did now want to hijack other threads so here goes. For years I have been taking one of the DTV receivers from the stick home and going camping. I use the 18" round with Dual LNB - works grea...
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I use to do the same thing on bringing along a bedroom SAT RCVR and a portable SAT DISH setup and watch our DirecTV account anywhere in the USA. It sometimes was a hassle finding the correct SAT to make it work and of course we always lost out LOCAL Directv stations whenever we got a ZIP code away from our house.
Then when the NATL BROADCAST came out with their digital HDTV setup the quality of the TV was very good so we switched over to it using our OTA Batwing antenna setup fining the signals from the local towns. We never bring along our Directv items anymore unless it is for a long term stay.
The OTA HDTV is full blown high def digital TV and we get 6-36 digital stations just about anywhere we go here on the east side of the USA. We sometimes have to get pretty accurate on pointing the BATWING antenna and getting then scanned into the HDTV setup but all said it works rather well for us.
If we want to watch some of the cable TV stations we use to get over the SAT TV we just downstream them over the internet. We don't do this very much as we have a low 3GB DATAPLAN with our internet provider but if you wanted to do more of this there is the MILLENICOM MIFI setup that will give you a 20GB dataplan using the good Verizon internet network.
I like what we are doing with the local OTA Natl Broadcast stations using our BATWING setup as they are free to use and full blown wide screen digital high def TV signals. We like to watch the national broacast Tv stations anyway... Hard to beat this...
This was a good alternative thing for us...
Roy Ken
Then when the NATL BROADCAST came out with their digital HDTV setup the quality of the TV was very good so we switched over to it using our OTA Batwing antenna setup fining the signals from the local towns. We never bring along our Directv items anymore unless it is for a long term stay.
The OTA HDTV is full blown high def digital TV and we get 6-36 digital stations just about anywhere we go here on the east side of the USA. We sometimes have to get pretty accurate on pointing the BATWING antenna and getting then scanned into the HDTV setup but all said it works rather well for us.
If we want to watch some of the cable TV stations we use to get over the SAT TV we just downstream them over the internet. We don't do this very much as we have a low 3GB DATAPLAN with our internet provider but if you wanted to do more of this there is the MILLENICOM MIFI setup that will give you a 20GB dataplan using the good Verizon internet network.
I like what we are doing with the local OTA Natl Broadcast stations using our BATWING setup as they are free to use and full blown wide screen digital high def TV signals. We like to watch the national broacast Tv stations anyway... Hard to beat this...
This was a good alternative thing for us...
Roy Ken
