Dish hopper 3 rv upgrade?

georgelesley wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
I used to work for Winegard and they are the least willing bunch of folks to address changes that I have ever seen. They would much rather say "No, you can't do that" than try to figure out if there is a way that this could be done. I know they are a very big company with lots of people who keep their jobs by saying NO to everything but Winegard is a much better company than this and they need to embrace change much more readily.
I really like the Winegard products but no company is perfect.

Bill not trying to be a pest but I really need an answer to a question I am getting conflicting info on. Do two or three cables need to come thru the roof from the traveler to the DPH42 switch? The Dish Depot person (not a tech) said two, but your great diagrams show three. Please, which is correct?

I am getting the Hopper 3 installed in our house today and will be rapidly pursuing getting it installed in our motorhome while the wx is perfect for it to be done.

This so much for your great help. I will give the Dish tech today a copy of your info and see if he will do the job on the side for me.

Those would be my "great" diagrams, not Bill's:



And, yes, you need to connect all three cables from a Winegard Travler to a DPH42 switch -- one cable for each of the 3 sats (110, 119, 129).

The only time you would use less cables is probably on an Eastern Arc 1000.2 dish because only two sats (61.5 & 72.7) are used.

On the other hand, if you're using a 1000+ dish (for International programming), then you would connect 4 cables to a DPH42, one for each of this dish's sats (110, 119, 129, and 118).