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webslave
Oct 25, 2015Explorer
I just got rid of my RoadTrip Mission InMotion antenna setup and had the Trav'ler 1000.2 Dish unit installed in its place. We don't have children (young) that travel with us, so, in motion was a waste and we both got tired of no HD (the InMotion could never find 129 for Dish HD). SD was fine, but, what pushed us over the edge was the grinding sound as it went from one sat to another depending on what channel we watched. If we went to bed and forgot to turn the darn thing off, it would periodically change from satellite to satellite "peaking" its position...for the entire night. The Trav'ler, once it finds all three satellites, goes to sleep. No further noise, the channel changes are instant and we get our HD channels with no problems. Signal strength is also more than twice that of what the little RoadTrip reflector could gather. Since the Trav'ler has the capability, I'm getting ready to buy a dual tuner receiver (a 722) that will be able to record several channels at a time while I watch something else. The 211Z as a DVR is a bit awkward and useful primarily if we aren't going to be "in" for the show. Fortunately, the park that we winter at has good cable, so, we can watch a program on the cable while the 211Z records another at the same time, but, we're still missing some of our programs because of time conflicts via Dish; the 722 with the dual tuner will eliminate most of those conflicts. I do, however, still have and use, when necessary, my "trusty" X2...best portable "automatic" antenna I've ever used.
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