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Originally Posted by AC2717
Bear Islander I stand corrected, I used to have a dish in 2003-2006 and had the ones with the cards in the back, actually tried this at my place and did not work with those boxes, my account is from the older days of the dish
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Then you were doing something wrong. As long as you took the receiver and card you could hook it up to any correctly positioned dish and it would work. In fact, if you had a receiver and dish at another location you could take just the *card* and not even move the hardware. You used to be able to buy receivers cash-and-carry at Walmart for like $99 until Directv caught on to what people were doing.
The only limitation was went they went to the spot-beam satellites for local channel coverage, you couldn't go from Boston to Florida (for example) get local channel in FL if your box was supposed to be subscribed to the Boston locals (and you wouldn't get the Boston locals in FL either because of the spot-beams).