Frustration, venting, rant

[havingfunnow]

Grrrrr! Rant away; you certainly deserve that.

I sometimes fanticize about sending a bill for all the hours I spend on hold with help desks and techs and so on!

[nella74nasus]

Excel, I have a satilite on my rig that Camping World installed. I punch a button and it finds the DirecTV signal. We use to try and find the signal with a portable dish, but it was really hard. I take the box and remote from home. I'm paying for it, so I use it. But I did find out that the service agreement isn't covered in the RV.

[mitch5252]

I have DirecTV at the house here, and just throw an unused receiver (SD) in the trailer, along with a spare antenna and off I go. None of it is HD, though.

Mitch...what is a 'spare antenna.....I have Direct TV at home & would love to have reception on the road....however, my Winegard antenna on the RV roof is the only antenna I have...so what do I have to buy to make TV work with my receiver on the road ????
Note: I am NOT savey....very good...not mechanically inclined ? or what ever so need advice.....thanks....

Char, here's the spare antenna I use for the little trailer...



I have a different one that I use for RVing Guests at The Blue Marlin (that one includes local channels, which the "traveling" one does not).

[Excel]

A picture is worth a thousand words (especially for me with my limited abilities ...so thanks so much .... now I know what to look for....is Camping World my best choice ????

[Acadianmom]

I don't think you want one of the dishes Mitch posted a picture of unless you are very adapt at finding a satellite signal. Camping world and other RV places sell the automatic ones that find the signal for you. There are several brands but you want one that is automatic.

Martha

[mitch5252]

Yeah, sometimes it's definitely a PITA to get mine honed in on the satellite, but for me, at that time, prices were $30 vs. $800 or more (or something like that...).

[Acadianmom]

Yours would be a lot better than the one I had on a tripod. My sister and I would fight with that thing and about the time we would find a signal the wind would pick up and blow it over.

Martha

[Redwahine]

This is the Winegard Carryout. Plug and Play. You push a button and it finds and locks in on the satellite!!. Portable and very light weight so if you are parked under trees you can put it where it can get a good signal.

[snowball]

dh was really good about getting that honed in (we have the same as what Mitch posted a picture of) however I couldn't when I went to ID
so didn't watch tv paid for but didn't use it...so I called when I got here to cancel it park has cable although not many of the shows I want..
but the price is right I thought by canceling it I could redo the program perhaps be cheaper..she told me that they have a vacation program
can put it on 'vacation' for up to 6 months so decided to do that and right now I have two of those things so if any one wants one of them they are
welcome to it
Sheila

[nella74nasus]

the one I have cost a lot more, but all I have to do is push a button. It's on top of my rig. It unfolds and searches for the signal. We got it at Camping World. There is one just for Direct TV and one just for Dish.