My NPS/All American Direct Experience
I have been trying to get just the distants for my RV from NPS/All American Direct since December 4th. Took until December 29th to get my RV Declaration approved, and they turned on the channels at their end.
I originally tried to use a pre-paid "Dish Now" 301 receiver, but that did not work. I was told by Dish that the programming in the Dish Now receivers make them incompatible with any other service. Perhaps not unreasonable, so I purchased a previously subscribed 301 receiver including smart card on Ebay.
Tried to get distants on the "new" 301 without success. Talked to NPS and even Dish several times. NPS and their "IT" department showed everything was fine on their end, but still no channels for me, except the "free" channels from Dish. Finally, out of desperation, I re-activated the receiver through Dish, and before I got off the phone, I not only had the Dish package I signed up for, but I also had all eight NPS distants. Don't know what might happen to the distants if I cancel the Dish programming, but this is the story so far.