terracotta
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If I buy a satellite dish can I use my receiver and remote from home to use in our R.V.?
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2oldman
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Sat TV for RVs
Take receiver from house
Basic DTV from house
Directv on the road from house
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Fizz
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If you mean Shaw/StarChoice
Yes you can.
We do it every winter. My dish is easy to take down so I didn't need to buy a new one. I take the receiver with me, no problems. I have a small tripod that is easy to set up.
I think you get into a minor fee if you buy a second receiver just for the RV. Shaw wants you to register it for $50. Never had a problem with this since we only have the one receiver. I don't know the facts on this.
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tvman44
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Been doing that with Direct TV for years.
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CardinalRule
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terracotta wrote:If I buy a satellite dish can I use my receiver and remote from home to use in our R.V.?
Shaw will send you a second dish for "free" but you have to register a second location - including a travel trailer - which costs $50.00. You can then use any of your existing equipment with it. You can have up to 5 receivers on one account. It costs $5.00 total per month for multiple receivers.
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icechip
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Shaw no longer supplies the second dish for free.
However they did send the larger dish for better reception when in the south.
I think they charged me about $125.00.
The mount for the dish is larger than standard so I had to modify the tripod by placing a piece of PVC pipe over the standard pipe.
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thomasgunnar
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We have what seems to be a billion recievers and actually have 3 in our 5th wheel. We had a period where we lived in our 5th wheel so we have the second dish. The one we use while camping is a round one, but still works great.
Last year starchoice was going to send us another one for camping but for some reason never did. I think at that time the charge was around a 100 bucks but there would be two credits on our account for 50 each for a couple months.
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