Dish install ?

[tumblingdice03]

Is it very hard to get someone to install the new HD dish ? I ask as I've had service for years here in FL but am thinking of moving to PA soon. Where I am going there is a dish but non HD. I would prefer to not have D* install the dish as I currently get locals from NY/LA by waiver and I'd like to not lose that if I can help it. So I basically wasn't going to report the move unless I had to at some later time. Although I could get locals at the new location so.......

[chirshey]

Give D* a call and ask them about the Movers Connection Program and if you can keep your present programming. Moving shouldn't effect your waiver stations, I would think. If they say it will, just say thanks and move on to plan B.

[texasbrit]

Originally Posted by chirshey

Give D* a call and ask them about the Movers Connection Program and if you can keep your present programming. Moving shouldn't effect your waiver stations, I would think. If they say it will, just say thanks and move on to plan B.

Moving certainly will affect locals received by waiver. The waiver is granted by the local station in the current location. In the new location you will get the new locals and all the DNS stations will go away.

[chirshey]

Sorry, I missed waiver when reading. I got East Coast stations (live near LA) way back when Prime Star offered them for a fee. I have changed packages thru the years and have always been able to keep the four channels for a monthly fee of $3.50 each.

[Sykotic]

You could hire a contractor to install and align the dish (craigslist). Then just move your equipment there. Call it your 2nd home. GL

[datman]

Originally Posted by Sykotic

You could hire a contractor to install and align the dish (craigslist). Then just move your equipment there. Call it your 2nd home. GL

But he won't the locals from the new location; you could put up an antenna?

We have a cabin and for a time we received the channels from our home in the Chicago area. It only lasted for a year and they wanted me to do test on all receivers, it was not possible. Not that that's what you are going to do but anything not completely strait with them may get complicated someday

[Sykotic]

there some locals that come down on certain transponders that only hit certain parts of the country. But still worth a try. The worst that could happen is that you will have to use a OTA atenna. GL

[texasbrit]

The OP has New York stations that are on CONUS beams which cover the whole country. If the OP moves to PA without telling DirecTV then (1) he won't get the PA locals except, as has been posted, if he sets up an OTA system, and (2) he will be in breach of DirecTV's terms of service. And of course (3) he won't be able to get any tech service from DirecTV.
Also of course he will have to pay for the dish and install it.

[tumblingdice03]

Originally Posted by texasbrit

The OP has New York stations that are on CONUS beams which cover the whole country. If the OP moves to PA without telling DirecTV then (1) he won't get the PA locals except, as has been posted, if he sets up an OTA system, and (2) he will be in breach of DirecTV's terms of service. And of course (3) he won't be able to get any tech service from DirecTV.
Also of course he will have to pay for the dish and install it.

Thanks for all the replies. I was aware of most of the info. I know I can keep the waiver's unless I update of my move (wrong as it may be to do so..)I was mostly wondering the best way to get a dish installed as I wouldn't want to do the HD dish myself. I would be close enough to get locals OTA, but really I am so used to not having locals and loving my NY/LA that I've had for years that I'd hate to lose them! Then again I'd be close to NY and might be able to fall under their spotbeam....or since the Wilkes Barre area now has HD locals on D* changing wouldn't be that big of an issue. Thanks for the posts guys!