Satellite Wiring Woes

You need to get the dish pro hybrid triple lnb and change out the one on your tripod .
Any Dish office that installs should have them. The hybrid is made for the Hopper !
The hybrid will not work with any other of their old receivers and the old dish pro lnb will not work with the hopper !

Run a cable straight from the dish to the receiver through a window.

Whether it's Directv or Dish network we always replicate the set-up installed at our home. We currently are subscribed with Dish network and utilize Dish 1000.2 sat antenna mounted on a tripod, takes roughly 10 minutes to set-up with open southern skies. Works great with our Hopper and Super Joey but we grew tired of bringing them back and forth every time we went RVing. Purchased a couple of VIP receivers for $70 that just stay in our rig.

On our current rig our exterior satellite tv coax input did not directly go to the satellite interior coax output, we found satellite signal ran into a splitter first which will not pass sat signal through to receiver. You could run coax from sat antenna directly to sat receiver and then to TV to see if equipment is operational, if that works okay there might be an issue with the coax wiring within your rig. We performed a 10 minute mod to allow sat signal to reach sat receiver unhindered.

Although it is a simple process to point a tripod mounted sat antenna, it can be a frustrating experience until you get the hang of it. We found Dish network a bit more challenging particularly when attempting to capture all 3 satellites for HD content, of paramount importance is to have the tripod as plumb as possible. Peg center (119) satellite first, with skew and elevation properly set other two satellites should also be locked in. Most issues are coax related, ensure coax used is good and all connections are tight.

We have to do the same thing, 2 TV's, run a lead to each, luckily the cable in the bed room slips down thru the rubber skirting on the slide, and the "house" connection runs the TV in the living room., We have recently tried the Wingard sat. with not much luck, returned it and reverted back to our Tri-pod mounted DISH. Good Luck and Happy Camping !!

One of our friends discovered the satellite requires stronger signal than regular cable. Not that the CABLE was the problem but a lot the connectors and splitters are only rated for 1/2 of the signal the satellite requires. I. Believe the number was 1000 instead of the required 2000. Possibly ohms? Dunno

I have dish also the king something sat,but I run from the dish to the sat 1 in my docking station . had to figure out which cable came up into my tv area. then straight to receiver . hdmi to tv works perfect,

Running you coax, thru the window, hooked up direct, will tell you where your problem is at.

I have the hopper in my 5th wheel using the traveler roof mounted dish. When using the hopper you need a switch. the leads from the dish go to the switch then the out leads from the switch go to the ports in the control center for the leaving room and the bed room. The switch is available from amazon. just remember you have to have a switch for any dish you use, hope this helps. We have great reception when not in the trees

SabreCanuck wrote:
One of our friends discovered the satellite requires stronger signal than regular cable. Not that the CABLE was the problem but a lot the connectors and splitters are only rated for 1/2 of the signal the satellite requires. I. Believe the number was 1000 instead of the required 2000. Possibly ohms? Dunno

You are close, being involved with Dish Network and DirecTV for years as a business partner, the normal cable TV is around 900 megahertz and the satellite signal around 2 Gigahertz. Therefor the splitter must be able to handle the frequency and also the little bit of power that is generated. So your friends were spot on but its not signal but frequency. I only buy splitters that handle frequencies of above 100 megahertz to 2.4 Gigahertz. They can be found on and at various outlets that we all know about. I always by the power passing splitters so if I use the Tailgater, it will still work as the Tailgater requires DC power from the Receiver to operate.