Dish For Dummies
This is all new to me so I have a lot of questions. We have Dish at home. The main receiver says Hopper Sling and has a plastic card (data card?) that says G4. We also have Joeys in the house. We ...
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ol' yeller wrote:
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I sold the tailgater. All I have now is the Dish on the roof of the RV and the receiver for it. I called Dish today and guess I'll activate the old 211 receiver for $7 a month and forgo the DVR player. I'll attempt the 211 hook-up next week when we are at the beach and have good line of sight.
Even this will likely leave your options highly limited unless the roof top antenna is an auto pointing antenna (dome or Winegard Trav'ler, which it likely is not).
An antenna that you must manually point or is an auto pointing antenna with only 1 single LNB (the eye at the end of the antenna arm) can only receive 1 satellite and Dish uses 3 to provide all of their programming. Additionally, if you have more than 1 TV and you want to watch programming on more than 1 you will likely need 2 receivers or a 211K (not 211Z) so you have a coax output so you can at least watch satellite in SD on the 2nd TV.
