We recently purchased a motorhome that has a Winegard Minimax RT8035T satellite on it and I am trying to get my HR23 receiver to work with it but not having any luck. The receiver is activated and works fine in the house. I guess my question are these two compatible and if so what do I need to do. I keep getting errors saying it cannot find signal.I am very new to this whole satellite tv thing and don't know very much,so any help with what would work would be appreciated ...Thanks!

Your receiver is not listed as being compatible with your dish.Directtv compatibility

The HR23 should work. You must first go into the receiver setup menu and set the antenna type to oval 3-LNB and the switch type to multiswitch. Once this is done, go to signal strength and signal meter before turning on the antenna. Now turn on the antenna and let it lock to 101. Once complete you can click the continue buttons all the way to the end.Just be sure that you go into the receiver setup menu and click on Display>Preferences and then Hide HD channels so your SD channels become available.

I just got a new dish today from Al's RV in Az. $400 less than the same one from another dealer on Grand ave. A lot of money for the same one installed.

I have done everything suggested in above posts & still having same problem..Checking signal strength I get all zero's?I have verified dish is powering up & moving & proper cable is going from "main" from Minimax dish to the receiver "satellite in 1".... Any other suggestions?

Make sure the cable goes directly from the dish to the receiver with no devices in the line.Bill.Winegard: why does website say his receiver is not compatible?

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MX955
Explorer
May 03, 2013
hitchup wrote:
The HR23 is a HD receiver. Your model Winegard dish is only DISH HD capable. Only Trav'ler is DirecTV HD compatible.

But if you switch to a SD channel for it to search and lock in to a signal. Menu, Settings, Display, Preferences

We have the HR24 HD receivers and I have the SD duplicates hidden on the menu.

I changed preferences to hide HD channels...same result,satellite signal could not be detected.
MX955
Explorer
May 03, 2013
It's working now! I talked to Jared at Winegard and he walked me through everything. The problem ended up being my neighbors trees! I was parked about 30-40ft from them but he had me move to a open area and it worked..Thanks to everyone for all the help and thanks to Winegard tech Jared...he rules!

My settings ended up being: 18" round,multiswitch & single.
wa8yxm
Explorer III
May 03, 2013
DirecTV is compatable with all but one of the "Dome" type antennas. That one is the Tailgater from Dish Network (HINT, Who makes the tailgater) which is designed to work with the Dish VIP-211K and nothing else..

DirecHDTV will not work (Except in SD mode) with a dome.

The Domes have some kind of selector or programming switch, Wineguard generally uses a DIP switch (Dual Inline Package if you wonder what DIP means) under the dome. You need to set the switches per the chart in the fine manual to make it look for the proper bird.
Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
May 03, 2013
That one is the Tailgater from Dish Network (HINT, Who makes the tailgater) which is designed to work with the Dish VIP-211K and nothing else..

In case your hint is to imply that Dish Network makes the Tailgater, that is incorrect. It is made by King Controls (King Dome).

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