Anyone use a Dish Tailgater?
If so, how do you like it? I have heard it does not work as good as the Dish 500. Does it give a good picture all of the time and how does it do in the rain?
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Bill & Kate wrote:
If you can afford it, I would go the extra $100 or so and get the Pathway X2. Same automatic setup as the Tailgater, but considerably larger antenna inside, and much more robust construction. Also has the advantage of using the southeast satellites as well as the southwest ones if you have a better shot at them. You can hook a second receiver to the Pathway, but it has to tuned to the same satellite as the other receiver.
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Some tree cover is not so bad, either. We used our pathway in a forest site in Idaho - managed to get 2 of 3 satellites.
We used it side by side with our roof mounted dome and it got much better reception, particularly when there were trees. It held the signal better in rain than the roof system.
In heavy tree cover, we could move the Pathway. We were in Hunting Island a couple of weeks ago and managed to get 2 satellites on the Pathway using the SE arc satellites by placing it on the picnic table. The dome managed 0.
