Dish Tailgater Problem

My tailgater is really weird, and I havn't ffigured it out yet. At home, it works perfectluy fine. Tailgater to the satalite hookup in the camper. Hookuip to receiver. Receiver to television.

But when we are away fron hone, I can position the dish, but if it's connected through the satalite hookup jack on the outside of the camper, we don't get the signal. So, I use the wire directy from the tailgater to the receiver by putting the cable through the window. And then it works OK.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why is different away fron honme. I'm using the exact same cables, same rseceiver, same television. But I do get good reception eventually.

Don't know what the answer to your problem is, other than try the cable direct fron the tailgater to the receiver.

Edit: I've also discovered that if the tailgater is too close to the camper or too close to the truck, it won't position to find the satellites. It will only complete 2 of the 3 "check" steps. But, move it away farther and it then works. Makes me wonder how anyone can have one on the roof of their camper. I figure the metal in the camper and in the truck some how interfere with the positioning of the tailgater. (I don't know, I'm just guessing). I do know it has to be about 10 feet or more from both the camper and the truck, and of course an open SW sky.

Have used our Tailgater several times when the dome on the roof of the MH could not P/U a signal. No issues at all. The last 2 times I've used the Tailgater it was for 1-2 weeks at a time with no signal loss or issues with the 211 receiver being switched from the Winegard Dome to the Tailgater and back numerous times.

I initially had problems with my tailgater/vip211k combination. Some times it would work, sometimes it wouldn't. I called dish every time that I set it up. I was ready to dump it because after 1 year of talking to Dish and struggling to get it to work, they told me that I had to replace the vip211k and that I had to pay for it. That upset me as they wanted to charge me $100 and only give me a 90 day warranty. So I bought the same unit from amazon.com and bought a two year extended warranty for the receiver. Now, it works about 80% of the time. The other 20% has to do with too many trees in campgrounds and unable to get a signal. So while I am not overly happy with my tailgater, when it works, it works and it beats having no TV.