New To Dish
I put the Wingman on the Batwing, installed a Sensar Pro and even built my own HD antenna that I can put 20 feet up on a pole and there are still plenty of places we camp on the congested east coast w...
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Bill.Satellite wrote:Range Maggot Bob wrote:Larry-D wrote:
Go to the Dish for my RV website and look at the combinations. Since the antenna (dish) is powered by the receiver not all receivers will work.
I too would recommend the Winegard Pathway since you're on the east coast it would be best (better signal strength) if you can access the eastern satellite arc. On your trip you'll probably reach a point that the western arc is better. The bigger the receiving antenna the better the signal strength. On one of our TT I installed a dedicated coax for the satellite and use a VIP211Z receiver. On the other I used a satellite connection already installed and use a Wally receiver. The important thing is that the coax from the antenna has to run directly to the receiver.
We just got the Wally receiver and the newest auto satellite finder called the Playmaker. Only thing wrong with this setup is that the Wally only handles one TV. We did get the Playmaker dual, but you have to run a separate coax to your second TV. Now I guess I'll have to run it through the bedroom window with one of those flat coax adapters. I almost wish I had gone with the big dish on the tripod; it used to only take me about 5 minutes to find a satellite with DirecTV, but we don't have that anymore.
Every satellite TV setup requires 2 receivers if you want different programming one different TV's. The Wally can be used with more than 1 TV but both TV's will be watching the same channel. The problem you may run into with the dome and 2 Wally's is that Dish uses 3 satellites and the dome can only "see" one at a time. If you want to watch 2 different channels on 2 different TV's the programming must be coming from the same satellite or one TV or the other is out of luck.
Well, yeah, I understand all that. Use a splitter, run cable to both Wally receivers, blah blah blah. I have the dual feed satellite dome, and should be able to watch two different programs on two different TVs. From what I understand, if the person watching the primary feed TV changes the channel, lots of times the secondary receiver has to reboot, unless you're both watching the same channel.
