ClassCRV
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Hi guys,
We now have a vacation lot in Arizona. It has a Dish Network dish on it. If we order Dish Network at home in California, can we take our one receiver with us to Arizona and just connect it to the dish and get full reception? I think this should work.
Thanks in advance.
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hershey
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Yes, done all the time. However if you do subscribe to local feed in your present area, you might be outside the footprint of that part of it.
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USAFBILL
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Should be okay, only thing might be your local network stations might not be available. You can always get them with over the air antenna.
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chevylover1965
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ClassCRV
Congrats on your new digs. Now you MUST buy a boat. I have DIRECTV not Dish and also have a vacation home in Havasu. I get all my local channels even in the motor home all the way back to the east coast. Most locals except the east and west coasts are spot feeds and are only good for a few hundred miles from the home locale. At least that is the way DIRECTV works. Have fun.
PS Lake Havasu is a fun place. Lots and great restaurants and of course the Sunday morning flea market.
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pulsar
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Chevylover1965 receives his local network channel because they are from Los Angeles - one of the two locations DirecTV use for its Distant Network Service (DNS). Along with the ones from New York City, those channels are broadcast nationwide. Having your local netword channels available no matter where you travel in the "lower 48" is a perk for living in the Los Angeles or New York area and being a DirecTV subscriber of local channels.
There is not a similar perk for Dish subscribers; Dish no longer provides DNS and even if you did get your local channels from Los Angeles, they would not be available once you traveled outside of the spot beam.
Note: There is a third party that provides DNS for Dish subscribers. The stations used for that service are located in San Francisco and Atlanta.
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Hook it up and enjoy.
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Sure that is what most of us do, I have Direct TV.
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Bumpyroad
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pulsar wrote:
Note: There is a third party that provides DNS for Dish subscribers. The stations used for that service are located in San Francisco and Atlanta.
Tom
those aren't spot beamed are they?
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ClassCRV
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Thanks for the replies!
The new digs are close by Show Low, AZ. Beautiful area out here!
Glad to hear the 2 dish, 1 receiver idea will work.
Not too concerned about the local channels issue. Usually only watch the news on them, and its usually bad news. Happy to leave that at home when traveling.
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pulsar
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Bumpyroad wrote:pulsar wrote:
Note: There is a third party that provides DNS for Dish subscribers. The stations used for that service are located in San Francisco and Atlanta.
Tom
those aren't spot beamed are they?
bumpy
The signals provided for AllAmericanDirect's (the third party mentioned above) DNS service are not spot beamed. Are those the same signals provided to Dish's San Francisco and Atlanta customers? Although Dish's spot beam coverage maps show a spot beam for nothern California, including San Francisco, and another spot beam in the southeast US that incluces Atlanta, I do not know. Perhaps some Dish customers from the Atlanta or San Francisco areas can tell us if they still have their local network channels while traveling around the country. (Several times we have had DirecTV customers from Los Angeles and New York tell us they have their local network channels as they travel.)
Tom
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