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soonernation
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Sep 10, 2013

Dish Tailgater

I am seriously considering the purchase of a dish tailgater for our Voltage 3200. We already have Dish at home so the monthly cost is minimal.

A couple of questions to those that have one of these satellite dishes.

1. Will I have to rewire something on the inside to get the signal from the outlet outside to the receiver location? I have heard on some trailers there is a splitter in the line between the connection outside to the one inside that prevents the signal from getting to the receiver properly.

2. What will be the easiest and least expensive method to get a signal to the other TV's? The ones I would most like to get the picture to (knowing they would all be the same picture) are the ones in the living area, the bedroom and the one outside. I really would prefer not to run a wire outside the trailer to get a signal to the outdoor TV.
  • Tailgater is a great investment, we love it.
  • The Tailgater coax needs to go directly to the vip211k receiver, not thru some intermediate device. Going thru a short internal coax from the outside connection to an inside connection is OK. If you have an external coax connector labeled satellite, and you can locate the internal end of that connection, then a coax from that to the receiver should work fine.
    The vip211k receiver has HDMI output to the primary TV and a coax output to another TV. I only have two TVs. My internal wiring is such that I connected the coax output to my existing internal coax wiring to get the signal to the bedroom TV. Have no idea what you can do for an outside TV.