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?