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[FHFO]

So my son was going to let me piggy back off his Direct TV. Thought I was all set. He said they told him we'd have to watch the same thing at the same time.What do guys do ? Dish has a pay as you go, $44 a month. I think not.This will be my first year with a wheel house. I'll be mostly up at LOW.There's probably no way to pick up channels with any kind of antenna? Is there a good way to watch TV while up North ?

[sportfish]

DVD player . I went to the pawn shop and bought a bunch of DVDs for a $1 each , I have a dish on my roof but not sure I want to mess with it

[Sea Hage]

Have your son get a extra reciver box from Dish. They are $6.00 per month. Then put a dish at your house and on the fish house. Just unplug the reciver and take it with to the lake. You can watch any channel you want, don't matter what he's watching. Now you have Dish at home and away.

[FHFO]

He told them he just wanted a extra receiver. And it was only going to be $6-7. They said we'd have to watch the same things@ same time. I can't have a dish @ my house no signal too many trees too high. My son has Direct. I have a direct dish. If Lake Nebagamon would not have just got cable I'd be cutting trees.

[highlife4me]

If you have two receivers you don't have to watch the same channel. If they told him you have to watch the same channel they were wrong, or there was a misunderstanding that maybe he wanted to hook two tv's to an existing receiver. I am sure there are thousands of people doing what you want to do with no problems.

[Sea Hage]

Like he said, DTV rep your son talked to is wrong, I and thousands of others have been doing what you want to do for a long time. Call DTV and ask them again, tell them it's for the bedroom. The only way you would have to watch the same program as your son would be if you put a splitter in the cable between the DTV box and the TV's, then you will be watching what ever the single box is tuned to.

[RiverChuckNorris]

My son has Direct. I have a direct dish. If Lake Nebagamon would not have just got cable I'd be cutting trees.

FHFO - If you have a DTV dish as stated above, have your son order an extra non-HD receiver (It is $5/mo). Hook that up to your dish and you're off to the races.

I have an Ice Castle with the 18" Winegard round dish. I leave the receiver in there year round.

Yes, it's a pain in the rear getting the dish dialed in each time, but, search on here for directions (there is a previous thread with great line-by line "how-to") and practice it in a parking lot this fall.

Any other solution will cost you money and I personally would be quite skeptical of the tripod set up.

[RiverChuckNorris]

Here's a couple links to old threads you may find helpful:

http://www.hotspotoutdoors.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3155251/1

http://www.hotspotoutdoors.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2950534/1

[FHFO]

I just got this direct dish, it has 4 spots for cables ? What kind of receiver would go with this one ?

[Hawg]

You got a dish that will handle 4 receivers. If it's the 18 in round one any of the old Direct TV standard def will work.

[outkast7222]

I get like 22 channels while on LOW with a digital antenna. Most are either children's stuff or NPR type stuff though.

[JSK76]

Interesting, I got an app on my phone and you put the zip code in and it tells you what stations are available and it said PBS out of Turtle River was the only one like channels 9.1 to maybe 9.6 and that was a very weak signal. I thought it was strange that Baudette wouldn't get more then that.

[cableguy2]

The Antenna is near Williams if I recall, I know at our place at Rocky Point had all 3 network channels, I have not rescanned in a longtime.

[Hawg]

We stay at Long Point a few times a year and the Williams tower is the closest to us. We get zero cell phone service and very poor tv at the resort. .