Dish Tailgater
Finally, after 8 years broke down and bought one from Dish. It is sweet, but curious about design. Looks like a basketball. I camp in the desert mainly in the winter around Gold Basin or Quartzsite w...
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MTPockets1 wrote:Happy Camper2003 wrote:. Should not happen; you have a bad connection, a bad cable, a bad receiver, or a bad antenna. Call Dish and get help. May take some patience, but they will walk you through it.. I was having a problem for a while - turned out to be a bad cable that was brand new. Replaced it with a better quality cable and no issues now for two years continuous travel and use.
Well I'd almost pay someone to take mine. In clear view of the sats it almost never locks in on them, and that's running RG6 straight from the Tailgater to the receiver bypassing the 5er sat hookups. Its never been right since the day I got it. Very seldom do I ever get all the channels. I almost threw it in the lake last weekend. After two days of moving it, and three calls to dish tech,I finally gave up and watched regular tv.
I called Dish tech three times over the weekend and they couldn't tell me anything. One tech recommended calling the King Controls. The first tech recommended trying a new cable, which I did, but didn't work any better. The third tech gave me the number of a service center in my area to take the Tailgater to to have it checked. The receive was just replaced about two months ago from Dish. The Tailgater didn't work any better with this receiver than it did with the last one.
