Home Vast TV on the Road

Timbergetter · Member

Home Vast TV on the Road

Brenda and Alan · Guru

If the box is registered to your home you do not need to do anything at all. It will work fine with the same program bouquet that you watch at home. We take our home unit with us on our annual six months jaunts but we have a 12v power supply fitted so we don't need to run an inverter. Enjoy your travels with your TV.

Alan

exa41 · Guru

I thought the card was only to provide the service , where you use that service is up to you .

Timbergetter · Member

Thank you all for your assurance that my home TV can go mobile without problems. It seems I was unnecessarily jumping at shadows again.

Now that I have addressed that important issue I can devote my attention to what camper trailer I will invest in. At present I am thinking of a Cub Brumby.

Looking forward to hitting the road.

Joe50 · Guru

VAST is divided into two regions - Eastern (Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas, SA and NT) and Western (WA). Main differences are the Seven and Nine networks - Seven comes via Southern Cross in Eastern and GWN7 in Western, while Nine comes through Impaja in Eastern and WIN in the West. See http://www.vastdigital.com.au/ although this site seems to have been created by satellite receiver maker Altec UEC.

I'm in Qld but I can also access ABC and SBS services in NSW, Vic, SA, Tas, NT and WA. Not sure if I need to register as a traveller when I hit the playground as I currently have access to everything I want to see.

Timbergetter · Member

Thanks for the additional information Joe. Brenda and Alan have proven that their home Vast box can be taken on the road without further registration.

While on the Vast topic, could I ask what people recommend for a compact receiving dish? I already have a good Sat finder (SF-3239).

valiant81 · Senior Member

Hi timbergetter;

As for the size of your dish, the larger the better, the smaller ones are a bit to hard to aligne up when you are looking for the satilight. I used to have a second hand dish ( Austar/ foxtell ) that i found at the local tip ( cost about $ 5.00 ) and used it for a few years . Started to have problems with that size dish when we traveled further north and finaly upgraded to a 80 cm dish. I still use the same LMB and also the same trypod for the new dish, also the larger dish has made it easyer to locate the satilight.

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Dunmowin · Guru

Joe50 wrote:
VAST is divided into two regions - Eastern (Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas, SA and NT) and Western (WA). Main differences are the Seven and Nine networks - Seven comes via Southern Cross in Eastern and GWN7 in Western, while Nine comes through Impaja in Eastern and WIN in the West. See http://www.vastdigital.com.au/ although this site seems to have been created by satellite receiver maker Altec UEC.
I'm in Qld but I can also access ABC and SBS services in NSW, Vic, SA, Tas, NT and WA. Not sure if I need to register as a traveller when I hit the playground as I currently have access to everything I want to see.

Joe, you will have to change to traveller when you start moving, then when you arrive in new state, just ring VAST, and tell them your new state (don't need to change any addresses), but by being in the correct state, i.e. Qld, you will get 7 news at 6.30, not 5.30 pm (if other eastern states are in day light saving time) if you know what I mean. When in WA, you will get WA news in WA time.

If you don't change to traveller, when you get to WA, all scheduled times will be out by 2 - 3 hours.

Timbergetter · Member

Thanks Dunmowin for that clarification. In my situation where I use VAST at home it would be simplest to not change to traveler status during the trip and then have to change back to home use when back home. It seems I would just need to adjust my viewing time when in an alternate state. If changing states for extended period, maybe then it would be worth changing status twice.

Joe50 · Guru

Thanks Dunmowin, I assumed the time difference would have been the only thing to adjust for, and as it doesn't seem too onerous to register as a traveller that's probably what I'll do.

Timbergetter · Member

A lingering concern I would have is the possible need to re-qualify for a fixed home address status at the end of traveling. It appears that terrestrial TV has improved in coverage, maybe since the turn-off of analog broadcasts, and I may no longer qualify.

Tim thetruckie · Senior Member

Even if you dont qualify when you get home it is no problem . Just means that you have to register every 6 months which can be done online .