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I believe I had it working a couple of years ago at home with no issues. Not positive though.

I recently helped two friends set up their 211 receivers for ota recording. Both have a large home antenna with signal quality 85-100. Both have had EHDs installed for a long time and working properly. I also hooked up our 211k in our RV for ota recording and we too have had an EHD for a long...

This pay as you go package should work for you. http://www.dishformyrv.com/

Just called AAD and since we are "former" customers its just a matter of reactivating our former account. If you're not a former AAD customer you will most likely have to requalify for DNs which means a bit of a wait before they are activated. Thanks for nothing Dish.....

He most likely was in an RV with an inverter wired to his house plugs for when there is no 120V available. Quite common in the larger RVs. In any case, the 211 will NOT run 12 volts DC but even a small 100 watt inverter will run it just fine.

Thanks much for the explanation. Oh, and I meant CONUS beams that the tailgater could receive 110, 119 and 129. I should have been more specific. Was not aware that they also worked with the Eastern arc sats too. Thanks again.

Was just looking at the Dish for my RV page and reading about Dish's Distant networks. They want you to buy a tailgater antenna and a vip211k receiver which will get 110, 119 and 129 sats yet they put the East Coast HD and the West Coast SD distant networks on a 72 degree sat? That doesn't...

Glad its working for you now.

i just tested our new tailgater this morning. Info screen on it just says L552. There are no other characters after it. It fired right up and we had signal and picture on all three sats. You may have gotten an interem version which hopefully will update to L552 soon.

I was also wondering about being able to get distant networks from Dish for the 211k when using the tailgater. I kind of doubt it since it would be on the same account as the subscribers H/J.

It sure would be great to have an option to receive software updates and guide updates either over the air or via ethernet. I suppose its more trouble than its worth for Dish.

Gdarwin, Question was does the Tailgater need a power source which Scott answered correctly.

Yes, that would be nice but no, it does not. Once you are beyond your normal locals spot beam you won't get any locals.

$349 I believe unless they just lowered the price.

Thanks for the review and pictures. I'm real tempted.