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How does a Tailgater work in the event of an audit? If the audit team calls, do you need to set up the Tailgater system in the back yard to be able to answer the questions?

According to DIRT: Option 2 is the one I'm planning to use. Given that I'm not a Dish customer at home, how would a Tailgater help?

We have a vacation home in Maine that's in use about 4 months a year. In order to only pay for the months we're there, I'd like to buy my own equipment and then activate with no contract, as described in this post...

Dish Network said it is transferring five satellites to EchoStar — a move that paves the way for a merger with DirecTV, according to Citigroup analyst Jason Bazinet: http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/dish-sets-stage-for-directv-merger-with-transfer-of-satellites-analyst-1201115338/

I have 2 211k's which both show the problem when watching certain OTA channels: First Receiver 1. Receiver model / R00#: 211k R0085052265-70 2. Hardware ID 3. DMA / Channel # / Call Letters: I've noticed it on two OTA channels: 25-1 WFXT-DT which is broadcasting at low power and has a...

I also sent a Charlie Chat question about Fox in the Turbo HD packages. Here is the question: And here, missing the point as usual, is their answer: I have replied again, reiterating that I'm talking about the HD-only packages, but I doubt it will do much good. Jim

I picked up a 750G WD MyBook Essential drive on sale at Staples yesterday. After reading this thread, I was concerned about the activation process, but it went very smoothly. I plugged the drive into my 211k and called the number in the on-screen prompt. Within a few seconds after finishing with...

Amen! According to http://newengland.comcastsportsnet.com/celtics/celtics-on-hd/ most of the major cable systems have home and away Celtics games in HD, so I guess #1 isn't the problem. D* and a few cable systems have only home games and Dish isn't even mentioned. I hope this changes in...

Thanks for the info. Is this documented anywhere? Charter (my old provider) had all games in HD. How about Red Sox games on NESN?

Hi all! I've been reading this forum for a few weeks and had my install today. I signed up for Turbo HD Silver, mostly to get the Boston-area RSN's in HD. The installer explained that I would only see programming on the HD versions of NESN and CSNNE when games were on. (Somehow that wasn't...