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MamaGoose
Explorer
Aug 06, 2017

Dish TV in Canada?

Hello!
This is to any Dish TV satellite dish users. Can you tell me if your satellite TV service works when you are in Canada?

Thanks!
  • It depends on how far north of the border. We use ours in Calgary, ab without any problem. It gets iffy around Edmonton, ab.
  • If you have a switchable dish (Winegard Carryout G2) you can set it up for Bell in Canada
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    Ivylog
    Explorer III
    The bigger the dish the further north you can get service.
  • We were thinking of using a Tailgater or something like that with our motorhome. A fixed roof unit might be problematic in Canada, given there tend to be a lot of trees where we RV.
  • We have used ours across Canada. When we reached the East Coast
    and dropped into Maine, I called Dish and they set me up with
    the eastern satellites. As I headed west, the western sats kicked in.
  • Thanks for the feedback! DH is checking the motorhome right now for a satellite input someplace other than the roof. Our motorhome is a 2003 Fleetwood Revolution and it already has an obsolete satellite dome on the roof. Hopefully there is some other place closer to ground level to plug in a cable going to a tailgater.