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Originally Posted by thor293

It use to be that you could receive Dish or Direct with the same satellite antenna but a few years ago dish changed that and you have to have a dedicated Antenna now. I had to sell and buy a new antenna just so I could use Dish tv since I canned Directv. What I dont like about dish is your antenna is powered by the receiver. When we had directv it was powered separately so once you got it locked on signal you could unplug the antenna and stay locked on. Now if your power gets interrupted you have to go through the whole dang setup again. I thought dish would be a better option over direct..... now I now they BOTH SUCK! I didnt think customer service could be worse than Directv....wrong again oh and with directv you could take the receiver from your house and use it. With dish you have to buy a dedicated receiver which still belongs to dish even though you had to buy it

Ah, not quite so. The Winegard Carryout G2+ lets users switch between Dish, DirecTV and Shaw (Canadian) for satellite service. It will do Dish HD but not DirecTV HD as it is a smaller dish that can only get one satellite at a time and doesn't have all of the LNB features of the larger dishes. This is what we have mounted on our roof and have used it in the past two years with both. The power inserter has dip switches to set your satellite provider.

Winegard Carryout G2+ GM-6000 RV Satellite Antenna