All American Direct/MyDistantLocals

[sca]

Does All American Direct still exist, and if so can anyone get it? I will be honest, I just want it to watch football from other markets. I have seen a lot of people who use it for just this reason, but it has been a long time since I have seen anyone with it? Can I get it? And, as a Dish Employee, will Dish allow me to have it?

 

[Brussam]

AAD still exists. Dish has nothing to do with it.

As to getting it, I know as an RVer I can get it. I am not sure about home usuage.

 

[TheKrell]

Isn't AAD still stuck with SD distants only?

 

[Tampa8]

SD only, San Francisco and/or NYC. You give them an address they then check to see if you are eligible to receive any of the networks. Then you give them the receiver and card numbers of your Dish receiver(s).

 

[sca]

how are you considered eligible? I do recieve locals via dish.

 

[renegade734]

how are you considered eligible? I do recieve locals via dish.

I have an RV exemption. All I needed to do was send them a copy of my trailer registration along with R00/S00 numbers and they activated them for me.

 

[RONZ]

AAD will only give you channels if you qualify You can go to www.mydistancechannels.com and see if you qualify

 

[RONZ]

Sorry that is www.mydistantnetworks.com Sorry for the confusion

 

[Tampa8]

I think when you talk about RV's it just confusing what the poster wants. Very different and requires different documentation. Another thing, having locals from Dish has no bearing on getting them from AAD. To get distant markets you have to be in an area that does not get locals via an antenna. You can get a good idea by going to a site like Tvfool.com and see what you are predicted to get. It may not be the exact same results AAD gets when they input your address but it will be close.

If you can read between the lines......... Whatever address you give AAD will be the one they check. You can give them what your mailing address is separately. They have no connection to Dish other than broadcasting from their satellites.

 

[nelson61]

I think the AAD site has a zip code checker that shows channels available for the zip

 

[Tampa8]

Yes they do, good point.

 

[sca]

I think when you talk about RV's it just confusing what the poster wants. Very different and requires different documentation. Another thing, having locals from Dish has no bearing on getting them from AAD. To get distant markets you have to be in an area that does not get locals via an antenna. You can get a good idea by going to a site like Tvfool.com and see what you are predicted to get. It may not be the exact same results AAD gets when they input your address but it will be close.

If you can read between the lines......... Whatever address you give AAD will be the one they check. You can give them what your mailing address is separately. They have no connection to Dish other than broadcasting from their satellites.

great answer! i cant get broadcast locals here.

 

[sca]

there is no 'do i qualify' or zip code on aad. tvfool says i can get about 50 channels which is absolute crap. i can't get one.

 

[Tampa8]

They apparently forgot to put that page in when they did a recent redesign. If you go to the site map link it shows a link for "do I qualify" but returns the 404 error.

Here's the page when it had the link. (Not working)

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...americandirect.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

 

[TechWriter]

One more caveat with DNS from All-American Direct: The programming is broadcast on sat 119, so if your just set up for the Eastern Arc sats, it won't work.

 

[Joe Satellite Fan]

As I get distant networks, let me further qualify what lets you get them besides the RV thing. I had to get waivers for all my local TV stations stating I could not receive their station's signal where I live. It wasn't simple and took me several months of "wrangling" with a couple of the stations. I truly can't receive local stations. Hope that helps.

Just saying you can't get your locals is not always what will work.

My 2 cents.

 

[Tampa8]

One more caveat with DNS from All-American Direct: The programming is broadcast on sat 119, so if your just set up for the Eastern Arc sats, it won't work.

Sure you can. You just need to add a 119 dish.

 

[Tampa8]

AAD tells me they are rebuilding their site and will have all the features back in a few days.

 

[mikew]

Do they compare the service address you give them to the one you have with Dish network?

 

[Tampa8]

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