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bobandvicki
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Apr 09, 2014

Dish receiver question with portable winegard 1518

want to upgrade my receiver so I can use the dvr - was told needed the 612 receiver because of my portable winegard but have read many complaints about freezing and noise - anyone comments / opinons w...
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Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Apr 09, 2014
No dual tuner receiver is going to work well with the Dish service and a dome type unit (roof or portable). The dome contains only 1 LNB and the Dish service comes from 3 satellites so unless the programming is coming from the same satellite the 2nd tuner will fail. Additionally, only the primary tuner can cause the antenna to move so if the secondary tuner needs different programming it cannot move the antenna.

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