What ever you are paying for at home, you will get the same channels including the local channels. But when you get about 225-250 mile away from home you will not be able to get the local channels, all other channels you will be able to get. If you use a receiver from home, that is your business, but DirecTV says no. You have to purchase a complete different package. A lot of people do use one of the receivers from home
with out DirecTV knowing.
So if you ever call them while on the road, you have to always use the home phone number as a reference for reboot!
It works, How do I know? well----------------