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    VIP 211z on a dish DP plus 500

    yea a picture would have been helpful. it is all working just fine now. on both recievers
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    VIP 211z on a dish DP plus 500

    yea a picture would have been helpful. it is all working just fine now. on both recievers
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    VIP 211z on a dish DP plus 500

    You are quite right. Now. Will this dish work on my 211z????? Thanks for the answer boba.
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    VIP 211z on a dish DP plus 500

    Guys I have a VIP211k reciever hooked to a DP plus dish 500 satellite antenna I would like to add a new VIP211z to the same Dish antenna. (That 211z is hooked to a tailgator right now. The LNB has four places to hook coax to it. Viewing the lnb straight into the coax fittings from left to right...
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    possible tailgater problem

    Scott It came up and setup with no loops or glitches. Its got a real good picture and all the guides work. Ithink it's going to be a much better easier setup than the Carryout.
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    possible tailgater problem

    Scott I have the VIP 211K Does the K make any difference??? I dont have an outside OTA antenna hooked to it.
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    possible tailgater problem

    Man you hit the nail squarly on the head. the info you conveyed is exactly the kind and type I need to be cofident of not screwing up my home setup. I'm going to test the tailgater by unhooking my home dish system and splicing in the tailgater to the reciever. Will there be any problems going...
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    possible tailgater problem

    I have a vip211k hooked to a 1518 carryout auto satellite dish with RV programming. The carryout died the last time out and I'm tired of trying to get it to work so I ordered a Tailgater directly from King Controls. What kinds of problems will I have setting the taigater up to get the view the...
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    Tailgater Vrs Carry out

    You make a valid point. I just want winegard to make my purchase good because of the high initail cost. The GM1518 should have lasted a lot longer thanit did. (less than 18 months)
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    Tailgater Vrs Carry out

    I guess its going to take a DIRT member to answer my question or somone with electronic experience with both units.What advantages does the tailgater Vq2500 have over the carryout Winegard 1518 besides being powered by the input cable? Which is more robust at finding and locking on to the...
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    Tailgater Vrs Carry out

    Is the VQ 2500 By dish the Same as VQube 1000 by king controls?? I see the tailgater and the Vqube compared as the same in many discussions. Is the VQ 2500 By dish the Same as VQube 1000 by king controls?? What is the truth. Does anyone have the VQ 2500 (tailgater) By dish permanantly mounted...
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    Tailgater Vrs Carry out

    Ihave a winegard 1518 Carryout permantly mounted on a lader mount and braced in half a dozen places with homemade struts. It has recently malfuntioned in that it starts up and acts like it finds all the satellites but when the signal aquistioning process finally times out the message on the...
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    Hopper & Joee Tech

    Is there a place besides the dish products web page a person can get a real good explanation of how the hoppers and Joees work without all the hype?
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    DISH Drops AMC Networks (AMC Back on DISH channel 131)

    The latest on the AMC-Dish thing Can someone tell me where to find the latest news on the AMC/Dish dispute?
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    How to find a local dish installer?

    Thanks Matt but I just got back from the local Dish place and an installer is going to either tweak my already installed 100.2 or replace and tweak the LNBs and mast with my 100.4 setup I just happen to have on hand. the brick and mortar person was real accomadating. Thanks again Dave
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    How to find a local dish installer?

    How would I find a local dish installer? Las Cruces NM
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    Have Cut the cable moving to stationary dish anttena from RV auto carry out What" Proceedure"???

    OK everything is now running fine on my auto dish. I really really need some help on tweaking my stationary dish back into focus. A lot of things have transpired since I installed and aimed that dish 2 years ago. I now have stents in my heart and torn ligaments in my left shoulder. I dont think...
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    Have Cut the cable moving to stationary dish anttena from RV auto carry out What" Proceedure"???

    OK I did as instructed above from rocket69 and I now have NO sattellites in the reception box. HELP . Was I supposed to have all green accross the acquiring sat BOX ??????? before trying to check switch???? Please someone tell me how to recofigure to use my carryout auto dish again.
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    Official DISH Channel Request Thread

    Science channel in HD please
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    Have Cut the cable moving to stationary dish anttena from RV auto carry out What" Proceedure"???

    Thanks a lot for the info. Is it the the reverse steps to go back to the carry-out auto dish??? I have never done it because to me it is a very scary thing to accidently render a $600.00 to $900.00 auto dish inop. This procedure may be covered somwhere in the manual but in a lot of cases the...
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    Have Cut the cable moving to stationary dish anttena from RV auto carry out What" Proceedure"???

    I have cutt the cable and With permision from Dish I have brought my RV 211K into the house and am using my auto carryout dish anttenna mounted on my RV.(parked close by the house) I have a wesrtn arc dish mounted above the house roof and aimed at 119, 110, and 129 I would like to use. ( I am...
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    Trouble shoot check w/out subscription?

    Thanks. You confirmed my speculation.
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    Trouble shoot check w/out subscription?

    Sorry. Bad case of CRS. EVERYONE DOES know What CRS is dont they?