We have a Hopper w/Sling and a Joey installed at our Adirondack cottage, and another Hopper w/Sling installed in our motorhome. We use a tripod mounted triple LNB 1000.4 dish that I set up at each stop, and have both eastern and western arc LNB's for it that I interchange as needed for the best reception on treed sites. We have another pole mounted 1000.4 installed at the cottage. When we're traveling, I use the Dish Anywhere app to tell the cottage Hopper to record programs that we'll miss while underway for later viewing either with the app or when we return to the cottage. On the road, I change our service address as often as daily to get the local stations, which also changes them for the cottage where they often won't be received since it's usually outside of the spot beam coverage. That's not a problem though, since the cottage Hopper also gets that area's locals over the air. When we're back at our site at the cottage, I connect the motorhome Hopper to the permanent dish, making both Hopper's recorded programs available on either Hopper.
Setting up the dish at campsites rarely takes me longer than 15 minutes, including aiming. I use the DishPointer app on my phone to find the best location with a clear view of the sats. There are no portable automatic dishes available that work with the Hopper. Only the roof mounted Winegard Trav'ler or equivalent works, but besides the big bucks to buy one you're also much more limited by tree cover on camp sites. The Trav'ler only receives the Dish western arc sats automatically, although it can be manually dialed in to individual eastern arc sats.
All of our Dish equipment is purchased and on a month-to-month no contract plan.
