Dish network satellite help

TechWriter wrote:

Big Katuna wrote:

I switched to DISH and used my Hopper with a tripod and found that it was much more difficult as the signal meter in the Hopper is much slower to show a signal. I was sweeping the sky too fast for the receiver to lock on.

I shortly thereafter bought a Winegard Pathway x 2 and a 211Z box and could not be more pleased.

Best $400 spent in awhile.

If you include your tripod and dish (which you no longer use), then you're into this for at least $600 (X2 + tripod + dish).

That $400 could have been used to buy a great sat meter.

I bought my Pentax surveyors tripod used for about $30 if I remember, I made my dish adapter bracket from scrap aluminum, the 211Z was $80 but can be sold for half that, the dish was free.

I thought about a meter but it was about the same price as the Pathway and all I do is carry it out and connect it.