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I occasionally experience rain fade when there is a severe thunderstorm in my area. During the last storm, I noticed that some of the channels in my DirecTV system were coming in fine while I was loosing others. Does this have something to do with which transponder I have set up on my system...

If I have Dish network or DirecTV service, can I install 2 dishes for one service and somehow connect them in order to increase the signal strength? If this were possible, I was thinking that this might increase the overall signal strength and help prevent loss of signal during bad weather...

What does outside the spotbeam area mean? Does that mean that I won't be able to recieve the locals at my other location?

I recently subscribed to DirecTV with local channels. I bought a multi-room system and split it up between two different houses. I have not hooked either system up to a phone line. I have installed each system different areas of the country. I called and activated my service and everything...

What will I loose if I don't hook up the phone line? Doesn't all the program information come from the satellite? Will it still work without the phone like hooked up?

Would it be necessary to move the reciever, or could I just use the other reciever? What if I am at one house and my wife is at the other? My question is....Will it work as I proposed -- A standard two room system split between two locations?? :confused: Thanks!!

In the case where someone has a home in the surburbs and another "getaway" in the mountains. Is it possible to split a single satellite service between the two locations? i.e. Can you purchase a "two room" system and an extra dish (off eBay or something like that) and then install one receiver...