Manual Winegard Sattelite dish...is it junk
WE have recently purchased a 2004 Coachmen Concord. It was used very little but it has a Winegard dish from that era. I was wondering if anyone has one and if so how does it work? Are you still using ...
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Bill.Satellite wrote:
Since you quoted me, is that LNB working with a Hopper? I would be surprised to find out that it was. If it is, what else did you do to make it work. It is only working with 1 satellite and 1 tuner so if it's a Hopper it's a Hopper without any of the Hopper capabilities but I really want to know more.
Yes, the photo shows the diagnostics page with the new "Carbon" user interface installed on a Hopper with Sling. That UI is only installed on Hoppers and single tuner Wallys, and as far as I know, the original Hopper and Hopper with Sling are the only Dish receivers with three tuners anyway. At this point, nothing else was done except connecting the coax from the DP LNB and running a "Test Installation" routine. The error shown is probably because only one tuner is seeing a signal, and the Hopper is only seeing the odd number channels. I think that will be corrected when I add a Dish DPP33 switch and a Solo Node that will allow both polarities to be seen. A friendly Dish tech is going to drop the switch off in a few days, and I already have a Node in my spares that isn't being used. As it is, most of the channels on the 110 sat that we watch happen to be odd numbers anyway, so it'll probably work ok as is for our intended use. I can't test the 119 sat yet since it can't be seen where we're parked right now, and the eastern arc sats can't be seen at all from the the roof. Our tripod mounted 1000.4 dish is using the eastern arc, but it's set up about 40 feet away from the coach.
