Portable Dish Antenna?

Doesn't matter if the couch is on wheels. You can be a mobile couch potato now.
;)

ok, thanks for the help. I found I was not getting 129 and the channel guide was not downloading. I hooked up the solo node and am now getting all 3 satellites and everything looks good. The whole process including getting locals changed was a lot easier than expected. We are happy campers(RV'ers) now. :)

Using two short (3 foot) coax jumpers, you can connect the Solo Node at the dish, and still only use one coax for the long run to the Hopper. The second coax connects to the next LNB port at the dish. Any two of the output ports (1-3) will work, just don't connect to port 4, the input port for a wing dish.

As I understand it, some of the HD channels, locals and some premium channels may be broadcast from a different satellite. Hooking a cable from another LNB and connecting it to your node will "join" the two streams into one so you can get them to the Hopper with one coax cable. That's my understanding anyway and I may be totally full of beans but it seems to work for me.

Jim

Back again...
I am now at my winter location. Using a DISH 1000.2 dish on a tripod and a single hopper. I set everything up, aimed the dish and everything seems to be working except for the locals which I will request via a chat session shortly. My question is that I have a single coax coming from the dish and I have not yet connected the solo node that I bought but the hopper "seems" to be working fine. The diagrams show two coax coming from the dish and going into the solo node and a single coax going from there to the hopper. What am I missing here? Is the solo node needed for anything and if so where does the second coax connect to the dish?

I bought the dish, tripod and node. Went out this past weekend and set it up and it worked OK. We were fairly close to home and I was disappointed to be unable to get the locals in HD but the Hopper switched to SD alternative and it worked fine. I'm not sure that I had my dish tweaked exactly and I'm going to salvage the screw type adjuster found on my old DirecTv dish and swap it for the existing mount. That should allow for more precise aiming. I also used the SiteAlign system on my old dish setup and will be adding it to the new dish. A real time saver.

In any case, thanks for the info. Now where did I put that remote . . .

Jim

You will need it to connect the Hopper.

Ok, great. Got it. I was planning on picking up a Winegard Dish Network 1000.2 dish to use for this. Is the solo node just to be able to connect the joey or do I still need it if I just hook up the hopper?

Louba wrote:

bill.satellite wrote:
You can also take a portable home style antenna mounted on a tripod which you setup and point manually if you would like to take along the Hopper

I talked to someone at DISH a couple times and they told me that under no circumstances could I take my hopper with me and use it in my RV. Are you saying that this is possible?

As noted, YES, you can take your Hopper with you. The Winegard Trav'ler has all the hardware that you need except that you will need to add a Solo Node splitter. You can do the exact same thing with a home style satellite TV antenna (and solo node) mounted to a tripod or similar which you then manually point at each new location.
It's being done by full-timers, part-timers and weekend warriors everyday!

Louba wrote:

bill.satellite wrote:
You can also take a portable home style antenna mounted on a tripod which you setup and point manually if you would like to take along the Hopper

I talked to someone at DISH a couple times and they told me that under no circumstances could I take my hopper with me and use it in my RV. Are you saying that this is possible?

As noted, YES, you can take your Hopper with you. The Winegard Trav'ler has all the hardware that you need except that you will need to add a Solo Node splitter. You can do the exact same thing with a home style satellite TV antenna (and solo node) mounted to a tripod or similar which you then manually point at each new location.
It's being done by full-timers, part-timers and weekend warriors everyday!