Hopper 3 and Tripod Dish

Big Katuna wrote:
I do. I switched to DISH a few months ago from DTV.

I got a 2nd dish from the installer and take the Hopper 3, Joey and wifi with me.

One thing I will say about the Hopper is that the signal meter is slow to lock in; many seconds. I had a hard time at first until I started going very slowly.

You didn't mention a combiner/splitter. Two LNB coax cables combine to give you one wire to your Hopper.

I recently bought a 211Z to leave in the RV and leave the Hopper at home recording stuff.

I also see a Pathway X2 in my future.

I only ran a single cable from the LNB directly to the Hopper 3 and not using a solo hub. The Joey from home is wireless. Am I correct in my understanding that a solo node is not needed when using the Hopper 3 and a wireless Joey? At home, my setup does have a solo hub installed, but I have two wired Joey's and the wireless Joey. I completed a "test installation" to see if the LNB was being shown correctly as EA Hybrid same as home. The test completed, but had red "X" on all the tuners since I didn't have a signal. Don't know, maybe this was a mistake and prevents the signal meter from indicating a signal when I hit the satellite. Is my satellite finder meter pretty much useless with the hybrid LNB, the meter only moved ever so slightly when moving the dish? Once I had trouble finding the arc, I switched to the 1000.4 and 722k insuring my tripod was plumb and able to find the arc. Thought the switch back to the 1000.2 would finally locate the arc using the same skew and elevation on both dishes.

I appreciate all the help as I learn or find my problem hitting the arc with the Hopper 3. Maybe something happened to the Hopper 3 while in transit while riding in the back seat of my truck. The Hopper appears to be functioning correctly minus the signal.

Thanks again!

Thanks