We purchased a travler from Amazon in the beginning of November and had it installed a couple of days later in Mesa, AZ. A local Dish installer came out and put in a hopper and joey (cost, $0).
We are now in southern Virginia, surrounded by pine trees. We can only get 119 of the Western Arc so I tried the travler's manual mode to tune in sat 61.5. I got both 61.5 and 72.7. We have all our locals (Washington, DC) and all HD channels. I wasn't sure what we might be missing without 77 so I checked - we have never watched any of those channels. We are pretty pleased with the ease with which we got the eastern sats.
