We are moving out of our house and into our new RV home on July 29th. I am trying to find out how I can still have our Dish TV. So far I have had no luck with the local people or the Dish people. The park we are going to stay in till we are ready to hit the road has no Dish.
I have seen those satalites sitting on a pole outside of peoples RV's. How do I get one of those? Does it travel with us? Will my account just transfer? What kind of cost for set up am I looking at?
I hope ya'll can help me.
Thanks
Luvglass said
02:24 PM Jul 5, 2011
The RV magazines all advertise that you can get the equipment to travel and "Pay as you go TV". Here is the number from a recent Highways mag. 800-970-7959 Good luck
-- Edited by Luvglass on Tuesday 5th of July 2011 02:25:35 PM
BenMary said
02:28 PM Jul 5, 2011
Thanks so much!!!
The Bear II said
04:51 PM Jul 5, 2011
BenMary
We just continued paying for monthly service. Just changed the address to a mailing address.
The dish is fairly easy to setup. In fact I just finished setting up ours, now that we have settled for a couple of months in a new RV resort. It took 1/2 hour from the time I pulled all the stuff out of the storage bin and found got a strong satellite signal.
For good solid help look for Bill Adams, he posts on this site. He is very familiar with how to setup Dish service.
Good luck with your travels
NorCal Dan said
04:53 PM Jul 5, 2011
We have a roof mounted auto-aligning sat antenna, the Slimline Traveler. Very nice system but you must know what sat service you want before purchase, either DirecTV or DISH. Sometimes we park the RV in the trees and the roof antenna is unable to "see" the satellites. For that we carry a portable sat antenna and 250' of cable so we can hopefully setup the antenna where it can "see" the satellites. We have DirecTV, and the Slimline antenna is the only antenna I know of that provides all available channels in both high definition and standard definition.
While in Roseburg Oregon we had the local DirecTV sat installer come out and hook us up with the portable antenna. He would not run any cable inside the RV, but he did connect to existing cables to get us service to our front TV. When we later switched to the roof mounted system everything cabled straight up and all we had to do was add an A-B switch to the front TV for when we need to use the portable sat antenna.
Unless things have changed I think Dish service is like cable TV, one "feed" from the sat antenna can feed multiple TV's. Should be fairly easy once you get the equipment.
Bill Adams said
05:06 PM Jul 5, 2011
Luvglass wrote:
The RV magazines all advertise that you can get the equipment to travel and "Pay as you go TV". Here is the number from a recent Highways mag. 800-970-7959 Good luck
-- Edited by Luvglass on Tuesday 5th of July 2011 02:25:35 PM
No, no, no! You don't need to do pay as you go or anything else. You already have an account and the necessary hardware, you just need an antenna to pick up the signal.
Assuming you mean that you are a Dish Network subscriber (not DirecTV) you can buy a variety of antennas both automatic and manual which will allow you to receive your programming (including the HD channels). Where you might run into a bit of an issue will be if you travel long distances from your home base and you want to be able to receive the National Network programming. This programming is spot-beamed and will disappear once you get 200-500 miles from home. It sounds like you will be staying close to home so I don't think that will be an issue. If you are going to be at one fixed location for a time you should ask around and you will find an RV friendly Dish Net installer who, for a small fee, will setup that antenna for you. From there on it's just like you were at home.
Hi -
We are moving out of our house and into our new RV home on July 29th. I am trying to find out how I can still have our Dish TV. So far I have had no luck with the local people or the Dish people. The park we are going to stay in till we are ready to hit the road has no Dish.
I have seen those satalites sitting on a pole outside of peoples RV's. How do I get one of those? Does it travel with us? Will my account just transfer? What kind of cost for set up am I looking at?
I hope ya'll can help me.
Thanks
The RV magazines all advertise that you can get the equipment to travel and "Pay as you go TV". Here is the number from a recent Highways mag. 800-970-7959
Good luck
-- Edited by Luvglass on Tuesday 5th of July 2011 02:25:35 PM
We just continued paying for monthly service. Just changed the address to a mailing address.
The dish is fairly easy to setup. In fact I just finished setting up ours, now that we have settled for a couple of months in a new RV resort. It took 1/2 hour from the time I pulled all the stuff out of the storage bin and found got a strong satellite signal.
For good solid help look for Bill Adams, he posts on this site. He is very familiar with how to setup Dish service.
Good luck with your travels
While in Roseburg Oregon we had the local DirecTV sat installer come out and hook us up with the portable antenna. He would not run any cable inside the RV, but he did connect to existing cables to get us service to our front TV. When we later switched to the roof mounted system everything cabled straight up and all we had to do was add an A-B switch to the front TV for when we need to use the portable sat antenna.
Unless things have changed I think Dish service is like cable TV, one "feed" from the sat antenna can feed multiple TV's. Should be fairly easy once you get the equipment.
No, no, no! You don't need to do pay as you go or anything else. You already have an account and the necessary hardware, you just need an antenna to pick up the signal.
Assuming you mean that you are a Dish Network subscriber (not DirecTV) you can buy a variety of antennas both automatic and manual which will allow you to receive your programming (including the HD channels). Where you might run into a bit of an issue will be if you travel long distances from your home base and you want to be able to receive the National Network programming. This programming is spot-beamed and will disappear once you get 200-500 miles from home. It sounds like you will be staying close to home so I don't think that will be an issue. If you are going to be at one fixed location for a time you should ask around and you will find an RV friendly Dish Net installer who, for a small fee, will setup that antenna for you. From there on it's just like you were at home.