Problems with Dish TV and Tailgater
We were given a Tailgater and after several problems have it working fine in our driveway. We have Dish TV at home so added it in the camper after purchasing another receiver. We have been camping thr...
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Dutch_12078 wrote:
One of the advantages Dish has over Direct, is that with the correct antenna, you have a choice of aiming at the western arc satellites or the eastern arc satellites. The eastern arc sats are higher in the sky east of the Mississippi than the western arc sats. The Winegard Pathway X2 is one portable automatic dish that can tune to either arc . . .
I wouldn't call two sat arcs (Eastern & Western) an advantage, but it is a fact of life with DISH.
Unfortunately, the Tailgater (both the old and new versions) can only see DISH's Western Arc sats (110, 119, and 129).
For most Tailgator users, this doesn't matter (check this "arc" map). In fact, if you draw a line from El Paso to Minneapolis, every local DISH station west of this line only uses the Western Arc sats.
However, OP gets his DISH HD locals from Dothan, AL which use the Eastern Arc sats, although the SD locals are on a Western Arc sat.
Regardless, DISH is changing over some of its locals to Eastern Arc only this summer, so the smart money is to use a Pathway X2 instead of a Tailgater.
