This thread and this board has been great. Here is my situation and what I have done.
First of all, I live in Austin, TX. I am a Texas Rangers fan (not sure why) and only get the games on my RSN which is FoxSW. FOXSW only shows half of the games, the other half are on the Dallas UPN station. The Austin UPN station also carries the Ranger games from the Dallas affiliate but Dish Network does not include the Austin UPN station as part of the local package and I am too far away to pick it up OTA.
Secondly, my finace' just moved last summer from Philadelphia. She is really homesick and getting the Philly locals would be a good thing for her and for me!
I wanted two things. 1) To be able to see all the Ranger games instead of half and 2) get the Philly locals for my finace'.
So, I did some research. I figured out what satellite the Dallas locals where on and it was probable that I was well within the spotbeam coverage for that satellite. I also figured out that the Philly locals were on spotbeam and I had no chance of getting them. However, the Philly HD locals were on 61.5 and NOT spotbeam.
Step 1: I called the customer service line and requested that my service address change to an address in Dallas. I used my cousin's address but I suppose that I could have just looked in the phonebook and used any address. I requested that my billing address and phone number stay the same. I don't own a home phone, haven't in some years so there is no phone line hooked up to any of my receiveres.
Step2: After they changed my service address, I logged onto my online account and went to the add programming section. It said that the D/FW locals were available. So I added them. Within a minute or so, I had the D/FW locals. The Austin locals were still there too!
Step3: About 1 week later, I removed my DishPro Dual from my Dish 1000 that had been looking at 129 and hooked it up to a Dish 500. Pointed the dish to 61.5 and locked on to the satellite.
Step4: I called customer service again and moved my service address to my finace's parents address in Philadelphia. Again leaving the billing address the same.
Step5: Logged back on to my online account and added the Philadelphia locals. I am not able to get all the locals but am able to get the ones that are in HD on 61.5. That includes FOX, CBS, ABC, NBC. Those are the ones I care about.
In conclusion, I have the Austin locals, Austin HD channels via OTA, Dallas locals and Philly HD Locals. I lost my RSN, FOXSN, by moving to Philadelphia but I bought the MLB EI package and now receive all the Ranger games that way.
In hindsight, I probably should have moved only once to Philly (skipped the Dallas move) and added the MLB EI package or after I added the Philly chanells, moved back to Dallas, regain the RSN, and avoid paying for the MLB EI package.
It was a lot of work, and will be kinda expenseive but its worth it.
