RV subscriptions

You can suspend the account for 6 months per year. Unless you have a Winegard Travler or KVH HD11 then it will stop working once DTV finises shutting down the MPEG2 channels.

I do have the Winegard Travler on the motorhome, but I do NOT understand how this antenna can control my billing obligations with DirecTV.

You have to have an HD dish to receive the sat signals, you are correct the dish has nothing to do with billing.

AFAIK DTV will only suspend the account for 6 months.

DirecTV is in the process of shutting down their MPEG-2/SD-only channels. Most RVs that already had a receiving dish, were an MPEG-2 setup. Mentioning the compatible MPEG-4 receiving dishes was just a caution in case you had to upgrade your setup first. As long as the Winegard Trav'ler is specifically for DirecTV, then you should be fine.

You cannot suspend the RV itself. DirecTV is a residential service. Local channels, regional sports teams, and taxes you are required to pay are based on your physical service address. If you have a receiver just for the RV, then you will be paying the $7 additional TV fee for the RV always. What many people do instead is take a receiver from home to use while traveling. You do lose locals once outside your home area's spot beam, so a regular antenna would be needed if you want to access what is near where you are at.

You can only suspend the entire account, not individual TVs. Max 6 months within a 12-month period. AT&T added in a $7 monthly vacation hold for this, but there was rumor that fee might go away one day.

Let's start at the beginning:

For that dish to work, you have to have a DIRECTV account and a DIRECTV receiver.

If you already have DIRECTV, then you should be able to take a receiver, connect it to your RV's dish and enjoy your DIRECTV service (with some limitations) on the road.

If you do not already have DIRECTV, then you'll have to sign up for DIRECTV and get a receiver.  If you only want DIRECTV for your RV (and not for your home), then when not in the RV you may want to suspend your DIRECTV service; your account stays active, you keep your receiver (which won't work) and you pay a much reduced monthly fee ($7/month instead of your monthly service fee).  But you can only do this for a limited amount of time each year (and maybe a limited number of times).

I have found that Dish TV offers a "RV / Trucker" option that will fit my needs.  But I will need to get the Conversion Kit from Winegard to make this possible.

Thanks for the input.

Winegard Trav'ler is not universal between them. There is a different model for DirecTV and Dish Network.

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There is no "Dish TV" that is mixing the two separate satellite providers.