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Old 02-20-2012, 08:46 AM   #1
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anyone here take their dish receiver from homewith them and use an extra dish while camping
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Old 02-20-2012, 08:53 AM   #2
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We do it all the time when we are staying somewhere that does not have cable hookups. I have an extra dish in the trailer and we take the reciever out of our guest bedroom.
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Old 02-20-2012, 09:22 AM   #3
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Ditto what Keith said. I wired my rig so I can watch two stations (one in liv room, one in bedroom) at the same time. I have a second dish (purchased at the Texas Rally last year) and take the spare room receiver.



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Old 02-20-2012, 09:50 AM   #4
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Just like Keith I have a dish in the trailer (I drilled out the welds on the arm and replaced with screws so I can flatten out the dish) yep the receiver from the bedroom upstairs while we are gone. Note that if you are out of your area you will not get the local channels but you will have all the cable stuff.



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Old 02-20-2012, 10:41 AM   #5
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We have the vue qube and take the receiver out of the house



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Old 02-20-2012, 12:18 PM   #6
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Bought a mobileDirecTV HD dish and tripod. I bring both receivers from home. We use the DVR inthe living room and the regular HD receiver in the bedroom.
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Old 02-20-2012, 01:23 PM   #7
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We do as keith does as well.
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Old 02-20-2012, 11:00 PM   #8
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We don't have satellite TV at home, we use ATT Uverse, so we bought the dish & the sat receiver from C/W for Dish Network. It is a pay as you go plan, & when we go RVing, where there is no digital air channels, we pay $37 for 30 days of service with basic service &local channels wherever we are. We can upgrade for a movie orsports for $5 & there are other packages available. It might not be the best way, but works for us, since we do not have a home satellite service.
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Old 02-20-2012, 11:16 PM   #9
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we have cable at home but have dishnetwork in the camper. I have a dual LNB dish on a tripod and a receiver in each room. That way the kids can watch whatever they want and me and mom can watch whatever we want. Plus I ran a cable from the back of the bedroom receiver down to the basement so I can watch tv outside from the bedroom receiver. I have had a Kingdome setting in the garage waiting to be installed for the last year. Just haven't had (taken) the time to get to it.
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Old 02-21-2012, 03:25 AM   #10
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We don't have satellite at home but have been thinking about the Dish Network pay as you go plan for the trailer. Saw some rigs when in AZ earlier with the Tailgater antenna but nobody around to talk to about it. Anyone have any experiences to share with that particular antenna?
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Old 02-24-2012, 05:38 AM   #11
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I'm with direct and have 2 recievers I'm using in Fl. right now.
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Old 07-09-2012, 04:09 PM   #12
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Ditto what Keith said. I wired my rig so I can watch two stations (one in liv room, one in bedroom) at the same time. I have a second dish (purchased at the Texas Rally last year) and take the spare room receiver.



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Old 07-10-2012, 01:51 AM   #13
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Trudi, On my Sat receiver, I have a HD output (liv room TV) and a SD output (bedroom TV). The receiver (Dish Network 722) is controlled by a UHF and infrared remote and has two tuners. The liv room tv is set to use the infrared and the bedroom is set to use the UHF. Not all receivers can do this. I split the coax cable going to the bedroom TV just after the booster box. One cable from the split (or "Y") goes to the booster box so normal over the air or cable connections will work normally. The other "y" connection goes to the sat receiver SD OUT connection on the back of the sat receiver. Hope this helps.



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Old 07-10-2012, 02:18 AM   #14
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Stan,

Thank you for your quick response. I don't think my DirecTv receiver will do that. If it wasn't that I need to keep DirecTV to get the NFL Sunday Ticket (I can't miss my Steelers), I would switch to Dish. It sounds like from reading others that it is easier to get to work in an RV.

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Old 07-10-2012, 07:32 AM   #15
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I ran a separate satellite line to the back bedroom and used a through the window flat cable to connect. We have an HD DVR in the living room and an HD receiver in the bedroom. We can watch different HD shows on each but can only record on program at a time on the DVR even though it has a dual tuner.
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