Question To satellite or not?

[Buly]

Valium may help?

 

[FL-JOE]

Here is our TV/reception story as full timers.

We started with DirecTV mainly because we used it in the sticknbrick that we sold. Since 2011 we purchased 4 different roof mounted dishes, changing when we changed RVs. The equipment worked okay except if you ended up in a site under or around tall trees. The roof mounted automatic dishes were also very expensive.

Last year when we purchased a 5th wheel the dealer threw in a Dish trailgater portable. I have a tripod and made a roof mount also. It is very easy to either set it up on the roof or on the tripot when we get to a new site. It zeros in on the 3 sats automatically. To get the local channels I simply go on the Dish app on my phone and within a couple of minutes everything is done. No phone calls.....nothing else to do. We have the tailgater package so it is month by month and automatically charged to our CC. If you need to suspend service for a month then you just don't pay that months bill and they stop your service. When you want to start it again simply pay the monthly bill and it starts again. All this can be done through the iphone app. Seriously, I wish I would have went with this package and equipment 11 years ago!

As far as streaming goes, I think it is the wave of the future. When we buy another sticknbrick and come off the road we will certainly go that way. However, just last week we were in a campground outside of Paducah that had almost no cell phone service. For now we get 100% reliable TV service so we will stick with Dish.

 

[Bowling300]

I am going to go to dish next year because I can pay it monthly.

 

[RangeMaggotBob]

Valium may help?

Thank you. Thank you so much. I really need some.

 

[jball49]

Hello everyone, probably not a new question, so I apologize if this is old hat. Just started full timing in a 2022 Keystone Avalanche. This is our 3rd rig. We just hauled it 1937 miles in four days, with a 2021 Ram Cummins Tradesman. Wife is already missing her Direct TV Chanel’s. We are a previous Direct customer with our account in “suspend”.
Now the question. Should I go thru the effort of adding a satellite dish to the RV or do a stand alone? We still have all of the equipment from our previous household set up.

I will agree that satellite is definitely not necessary if you have enough bandwidth from the Internet to stream content. It’s cheaper and the best part is you can watch what you want to watch when you want to watch it. We went streaming only and locals off antenna about 7 years ago and never looked back. You can go as economical as you desire on limited choices for streaming or get anything and almost everything (some you can’t get on satellite) so no drawback there. The only reason not to do this is if you are going to be in areas where sufficient Internet connection isn’t available but then even that has multiple possibilities nowadays via satellite so you have to set your priorities I guess. I have gotten really spoiled about not watching ads, sure I used to time shift on DVR to avoid watching but now without having to do anything and the show plays from beginning to end is perfection! Good luck with whatever you choose!