Satellite TV
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Msbudlite
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thank you for all your help.
BoomerD
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If you decide you want to go with a good portable unit (for Dish Network) here's what seems to be considered to be the best antenna...with a receiver for just a couple dollars more than MOST places charge for just the antenna:
https://www.amazon.com/Winegard-PA6002R-Pathway-Satellite-Antenna/dp/B00G1XB8O2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467388530&sr=8-1&keywords=winegard+x2
I'll probably be ordering one this weekend myself.
https://www.amazon.com/Winegard-PA6002R-Pathway-Satellite-Antenna/dp/B00G1XB8O2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467388530&sr=8-1&keywords=winegard+x2
I'll probably be ordering one this weekend myself.
RVoorhis318
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At home I had Directv put a second HD Sat Dish on my garage and I got a second Genie for my RV good for 200 hours of HD recording and the installer hooked it all up for me. While the RV is in the driveway I hook up the dish and record tons of television and movies that can be 50 hrs of TV for a week. So you don't need to spend thousands of dollars and if you watch everything you recorded you can get a Directv portable HD dish on Amazon for about $100 bucks and hook it up yourself wherever you are in about 10 minutes.
You can get the elevation and azimuth from their website so once I have that set I call my wifes iPhone with FaceTime and lean it on something facing the TV and I go outside with my iPhone, I can see the TV and I turn the dish until I get full signal bars then lock it down and your done.
Costs about $50 bucks a month for the additional account but you can suspend it for up to 6 months with no payment if your not using it, works great! Get back home delete what you watched and record new programs.
You can get the elevation and azimuth from their website so once I have that set I call my wifes iPhone with FaceTime and lean it on something facing the TV and I go outside with my iPhone, I can see the TV and I turn the dish until I get full signal bars then lock it down and your done.
Costs about $50 bucks a month for the additional account but you can suspend it for up to 6 months with no payment if your not using it, works great! Get back home delete what you watched and record new programs.
BoomerD
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Sgt472 said:
Check your PM's...I sent you one. (Top of page)
NY_Dutch
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Rob VanVoorhis said:
Our original Dish portable system cost a bit less than $250 complete, and the extra receiver for the RV was just $7/month with the option to add or delete it from our account at any time. Our entire account can be started and stopped at will on a monthly basis, although we no longer have any need to do that.
Our current Dish setup consists of a portable tripod mounted triple LNB dish that travels with us, and a permanently mounted triple LNB dish at our Adirondack cottage. We travel with one three tuner Hopper w/Sling DVR receiver and a Joey in the motorhome, and have a second Hopper w/Sling DVR we leave connected at the cottage. When we'll miss programs while underway, we use the DishAnywhere app on our smartphones to tell the cottage Hopper to record them. Once we're setup on a site we can then stream the recordings to our TV, or wait until we're back at the cottage where we connect the coach Hopper to the fixed dish. With that connected, we can watch the recordings on the cottage Hopper from either Hopper. The cottage Hopper does lose the spot beamed local channels when we change our service location as we travel, but it gets good OTA signals, so that's not a problem.
BoomerD
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Sgt472 said:
Sarge, I just wanted to know where you're located...
whiteva
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Having a roof top permanent mount sat dish is a good option until you park under trees. I like the KING portable, automatic dish. It can be mounted to the roof AND be removed as necessary when trees block your coach. One cable works with Dish or Direct network.
https://www.dishformyrv.com/king-tailgater-antenna-refurbished/?gclid=CjwKEAjwzN27BRDFn9aAwLmH2yISJABWuEXcnZyz3v0XcP2cF5qdWr3glYmlwzcvM3hO7DhpAOZ_ShoCkcnw_wcB
https://www.dishformyrv.com/king-tailgater-antenna-refurbished/?gclid=CjwKEAjwzN27BRDFn9aAwLmH2yISJABWuEXcnZyz3v0XcP2cF5qdWr3glYmlwzcvM3hO7DhpAOZ_ShoCkcnw_wcB
RVoorhis318
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NY_Dutch said:
Thats pretty cool too, it doesn't have to be expensive and then the phone apps to boot!!!! We carry a high speed modem & router as well and open an account with whatever cable company the site uses if possible for our own private high speed internet. In florida we use Comcast and this winter in Arizona we' use Cox I believe. Not a fan of Tengointernet myself.
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Msbudlite
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is it a portable or permanent one?Sgt472 said:
NY_Dutch
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Rob VanVoorhis said:
For Internet, we have a 20GB/month Verizon 4G/LTE data plan for our primary Jetpack, and a backup Jetpack with an unlimited 3G plan. I'll soon be testing a T-Mobile/SimpleMobile unlimited 4G/LTE data plan to see how well their coverage works out for us. We don't stay anywhere long enough to get a local cable hookup.
BoomerD
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I received my Winegard Pathway X2 bundle yesterday. Bought it from PPL...took a bit longer to receive it than I like...(spoiled by Amazon Prime) but the savings was enough to "suffer" the wait. 
Hooked it up, it found the satellites immediately, took about 15 minutes on the phone with Dish to get it activated,(activation was only 4-5 minutes, the rep stayed on the phone to make sure everything worked right before disconnecting)
I'm going to have to do some "re-wiring" of the motorhome cable system. As it is now, the antenna/Dish receiver works fine running through the motorhome's "cable TV" connection, but it doesn't work through the BOMB. (and the receiver is HDMI out, so I can't run it into the receiver, then out to the BOMB and on to the TV. Tried a splitter so I could feed both the BOMB with the cable TV/OTA antenna feeds and the Dish receiver at the same time...didn't work. (wasn't really expecting it to...but...)
Meh...it's not that difficult to disconnect one cable, reconnect another one.
I"m still happy to be able to have Dish when we go out.
Hooked it up, it found the satellites immediately, took about 15 minutes on the phone with Dish to get it activated,(activation was only 4-5 minutes, the rep stayed on the phone to make sure everything worked right before disconnecting)
I'm going to have to do some "re-wiring" of the motorhome cable system. As it is now, the antenna/Dish receiver works fine running through the motorhome's "cable TV" connection, but it doesn't work through the BOMB. (and the receiver is HDMI out, so I can't run it into the receiver, then out to the BOMB and on to the TV. Tried a splitter so I could feed both the BOMB with the cable TV/OTA antenna feeds and the Dish receiver at the same time...didn't work. (wasn't really expecting it to...but...)
Meh...it's not that difficult to disconnect one cable, reconnect another one.
I"m still happy to be able to have Dish when we go out.
NY_Dutch
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I'm glad your X2 system is working well! Since I knew there would be times when I wanted either cable or OTA signals along with the sat service, I installed a separate feed for the portable dish direct to the receiver. On our coach, I located the outside input fitting right next to the existing cable input in the electrical bay using a two connector cover plate and a new RG6 cable routed to the front overhead cabinet where the receiver is installed.
BoomerD
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NY_Dutch said:
I'm thinking about doing exactly that...unfortunately, I can't do it myself...so it won't be inexpensive to have it done...in the mean time, I'll live with swapping the cables.
NY_Dutch
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Fortunately, at 73 I'm still able to do that sort of thing. Running the cable along the chassis frame rail was the easy part. My old bones do laying down stuff really well... ;D
BoomerD
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NY_Dutch said:
Mine too...but I'm too fat to crawl underneath very well nowadays...
Heli_av8tor
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I bought supplies from SolidSignal for my Hopper 3 installation.
I ordered the Solo Node as one of the needed components only to learn that I should have ordered the Solo Hub.
By the time I got the Trav'ler dish installed and realized my mistake it was past the 30-day return window.
I emailed (twice) SolidSignal requesting a return and exception to their short return window.
I did not even get a response from them. They are now on my "never again" list.
Tom
I ordered the Solo Node as one of the needed components only to learn that I should have ordered the Solo Hub.
By the time I got the Trav'ler dish installed and realized my mistake it was past the 30-day return window.
I emailed (twice) SolidSignal requesting a return and exception to their short return window.
I did not even get a response from them. They are now on my "never again" list.
Tom
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Tom,
let me take care of you sir im sure our returns department provided you an RMA number have you checked your spam folder?.. I can assure you that i can take care of you asap.
let me take care of you sir im sure our returns department provided you an RMA number have you checked your spam folder?.. I can assure you that i can take care of you asap.
