I'm considering purchasing a single DISH service to use at my primary home in San Jose and at a second home in the Sacramento area. I'd buy a second antenna and move the receiver back and forth. My question is on local channels. If I sign up for San Francisco/San Jose local channels, will I be able to receive them in Sacramento. I guess I'm not sure if this is a really narrow beam transmission or not.
Local channels in two nearby areas
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I believe you should be able to receive the S.F./San Jose locals in the Sacramento area. The S.F./San Jose locals are on spotbeam 4 of Echostar-7 satellite at 119 W. Here is a link to the spotbeam map although it is not very clear.
http://wvjw.info/dbs-beam/echo7.gif
http://wvjw.info/dbs-beam/echo7.gif
chaddux said:
its not against the rules what he is trying to do. He said hed move the receiver back and forth....that isnt against the rules
now if he permantly kept a receievr at the 2nd house...then that would be technically against the rules (but has been done many many times)
Iceberg said:its not against the rules what he is trying to do. He said hed move the receiver back and forth....that isnt against the rules
now if he permantly kept a receievr at the 2nd house...then that would be technically against the rules (but has been done many many times)
It would certainly be more convenient to keep a 2nd recvr at the second home, but I realize that's against the rules.
However, I seem to remember reading somewhere that you can pay an extra $5 or $6 a month and have a receiver at a second home. Do you know anything about that?
Iceberg said:its not against the rules what he is trying to do. He said hed move the receiver back and forth....that isnt against the rules
now if he permantly kept a receievr at the 2nd house...then that would be technically against the rules (but has been done many many times)
Well, actually Iceberg, it is. From the Residential Agreement, "If you desire to receive Services at two different locations, you must open a separate account for each location." Now, I may not be Stephen Hawking, but I believe it is safe to say that two houses that are in DIFFERENT CITIES could resonably be considered two different locations.
And you're a staff member here? Sheesh.
If he's only using service in one house at a time, he's receiving service in one or the other. Think it out.....
Technically he'd have to change his physical address each time. There is no harm in it, he's not stealing signals, he's watching a service he paid for with an active receiver. He'd probably be able to catch San Fran channels in Sacremento with an off air antenna anyway.
I currently have two addresses listed, one for billing, one for physical. If you visit my physical address, you'll be in for a surprise.
Just because we're staff members doesn't mean we're saints.
I currently have two addresses listed, one for billing, one for physical. If you visit my physical address, you'll be in for a surprise.
Just because we're staff members doesn't mean we're saints.
I agree that there shouldn't be anything wrong with it. He shouldn't have to pay for double service if he isn't at both places all the time. I was stating that it was against DISH's rules so they he would be forewarned. No matter how you want to argue the technicalities, you know DISH would never say it was ok.
