Which DISH OR DIRECT TV

[RCAircraft]

Originally Posted by hoggers

I have a directv dish that I cannot get a connection, is it true that you must have directv change your location on your receiver from home.

We had Direct TV in our Redwood (and at home) for the past five years. Never had to have them do anything. We have the Wingard SWS Direct TV dish system. It locks on within minutes as I set up camp. Love it.

[Jim & Mary]

We have the Dish Hopper and Joey from the house with us when on the road. At almost any new location, we phone Dish technical support, give them the new local address (zip code) and within a few minutes the local channels for that area appear on the channel lineup. It has worked well for us.
The local channels are delivered to the ground by what's called a spot beam, only to a small geographic area. I was told because of advertising dollars.

[johnboytoo]

If you can't get a connection - that's an issue,

BUT, if you are out of your "spot beam" local area, you can't get local channels...

first try 360 or a national station to see if you have that,
I just used my antenna for local channels...

[proteus]

Power antenna switch for 36 RE been looking for pushbutton with green indicator light

Having issues try to get dish satilytte going been with customers service for a few hrs still not right

Should antenna power be diabled or am I having a senior moment I thought it was in cabinet by bedroom tv

All other TV functions working even amazon prime just no satilytte yet
Tomorrow is another day
Done with this tonight

K

[Jim & Mary]

Karl

The "power switch" is for the cable TV/local channel antenna, and is a completely separate system from the satellite cable system. The cable TV/local antenna cables are black, and the satellite cables are orange. For satellite reception, the "power switch" is irrelevant.

[proteus]

Today will round 2 with dish outdoor Tech getting a receiver not authorized error #129, Id # and smart card correct rebooted several times there is a winegard dome, mission road trip model vip211z decoder. Dish settings dip switches r correct. Their is a hybrid dish switch setting must ask about see if I can get this working?
Thought antenna was separate,

I was tired very long day at work

Not sure if the newer hopper will or won't work this is the reciever they sent many buttons on remote ???

This don't get better it goes back

K

[brenkco]

Proteus,

I'm not familiar with your antenna but the 211 receiver is built for the portable antennas. I use the Dish Tailgater for my 211.

I can tell you that the Hopper will not work with any of the portables. You need a fixed 3LNB antenna, either roof or ground mount with a solo node for the first generation Hopper. I believe the Hopper 3 requires a Hybrid LNB.

Ken

[Jim & Mary]

Ken is correct, I just converted my Winegard dish to switch from Hopper 2 to Hopper 3 and couldn't be happier.

[proteus]

I did the registration information ran acquisition test tested out good is working now 211z decoder flex pack and news hbo Cinemax free for a few months too.