I am somewhat new, have only had my rig a month, and do not yet have Sat TV. I have been looking at all the options. Been told that DirectTV does NOT have HD, but Dish does. Also been told that none of the portable systems, Tailgater, VuQube, CarryOut etc. have DVR? To get DVR you have to have a expensive roof top mount dish. I like the idea of being able to have Sat to both the living room tv and the bedroom tv. Is anybody using one of the portable systems able to have DVR? If so how?
For Directv, if you want HD and DVR, and bedroom TV, you have basically 2 choices: auto-tuning rooftop dish that goes for $1600+, or tripod-mounted full-size dish like you have on your house; probably a Slimline-3. With the Slimline-3, you have to aim it yourself with a meter. The more expensive the meter, the easier to aim. Some people find it easy to aim with a $10 meter. Some not so easy. Smartphone apps help a lot with aiming.
If you go with the Slimline-3 dish, you have a choice of the older multi-switch LNB and matching receivers, or the newer SWM LNB and matching receivers.
The multi-switch LNB has 4 coax lines coming out of the dish, which you can feed thru your rig: 2 to the DVR and a 3rd to the bedroom.
The SWM LNB has 1 coax line that goes to a splitter that you'll probably put in the UDC. With SMW you only need 1 coax line to the DVR for both of its tuners to work, so you don't need to run additional coax to the entertainment center. A 2nd output of the splitter goes to the bedroom. With this configuration, for $3/month you can have whole-house DVR usage, so you can watch DVR recordings on the bedroom TV.
If you have Directv at home, see if they'll outfit your RV and sign you up for Distant Network Services. This year they made me create a 2nd account for the RV, but then they merged the accounts. So I'm only paying for 1 programming package that gets used by both accounts. The receivers at home get local stations and the receivers in the RV get New York stations for CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, and CW.
I pay $6 for each of the 2 receivers in the RV, which they provided at no charge. Distant Network Services is $15/month. So my additional cost for the RV is supposed to be $27/month. But - they're only charging me for 4 receivers total for home and RV. Since I have 3 at home, the additional charge for the RV is $6. Net $21/month. But - for being a loyal Directv customer, they're giving me a $20/month discount for 12 months. Net cost is down to $1/month for next 12 months. Oh, they also threw in 6 months of free Showtime and Starz. And they provided a new Slimline-3 dish and SWM LNB and related equipment, also at no charge.
Full disclosure: I have a Satellite Tracking Pro meter which was about $180. I originally used it to aim the SL-3 with multi-switch LNB. I'm having trouble using it to aim the SWM LNB. So until I figure out why, I'm having to set up and aim using the old LNB, then switch to the SWM LNB. Works, but takes a bit longer and is kludgy. One of these days I'll get on the phone with the meter people to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
So if you're a loyal Directv customer, call them and ask them what they have that competes with Dish's pay as you go program. They'll probably tell you that you can get a 2nd account and suspend the RV when not using, suspend home when in the RV - I didn't like the details, but that is a choice. The merged account is a much better choice.