Thank you very much for your post, I appreciate it. This is the second time now that I've seen a suggestion like this. Is this something that a lot of the people here do? How do you do it? Is it worth doing, or should I just wait for my locals if I went to Dish?
Okay ,say you want to move to Houston, Tx like I did and you live 90 miles away in Beaumont , Tx. Your service and billing address is set for the Beaumont address. You simply call the csr and say : I have already moved to Houston , Tx and I installed everything myself. Here is my new service address.... Keep my billing address what it already is and my phone number stays the same.
To arrive at a new service address you simply do a google search for say movie theaters in the town you want to move to. Once you find a real movie theater address in that town you add an apartment number to it to make that address yours. Then you plug the service address into the local address broker on DISH 's site and it will tell you what you are eligilble for. Here is a website that tells you which locals are available on conus (nationwide) and which are on spotbeam ( just a small area).
The Echostar Knowledge Base on DBSTalk CHeck under the programming part and look under individual sats like 110/119/61.5 and 129 for the locals that are available . The 61.5 and the 129 sats are on CONUS beam while the 110 and 119 are on SPOTBEAMs. Most spotbeams cover over a 100 miles in area - in my case in Houston to Beaumont. Simply check and see what city has hd locals and which is closest to you unless already on CONUS beam. You will need a dish for 61.5 or 129 to use the Conus beam locals , but if you have HD anyway they will install either a side sat dish for 61.5 or a dish 1000.2- (110/119/129) .
** Be warned that the 129 sat is a wobbly sat on its last leg with many reception problems and as such you might suffer video/audio losses quite frequently do to the satellite having to constantly refire its fuel to stay in orbit. I recommend the 61.5 or a bigger side sat dish just for 129 .
Many people have "moved" in the past to get sd locals when they were added because they lacked their networks. Many people still move but do it now for hd networks even when DISH has their sd locals - like in my case. DISH doesn't care as long as you don't tell them what you are really doing. THe rules state that the sat provider can't "KNOWINGLY" sell you out of area locals. Don't tell them what you are really doing and they won't ask. AND many many people here on this board and others have "moved" and still are doing it to get out of area locals in both sd /hd.
