[Mel B.]

Originally Posted by brenkco

Traveling Three:
I have been down this path and here are my observations. Most of the HD programming that I watch is on 119 and 129. Very little is on 110. I tried to find out what programming was on each satellite and never found good documentation. The "info" button when pressed twice on your remote using the VIP211 gives you the satellite.

If you are trying to use two receivers, I might suggest that the portable dish is not a great solution for you. Using a tripod and standard dish solves your problem. You can then access 100% of your programming on each receiver without any limitations. The portable dishes use software to find the satellites thus limits you to one at a time for viewing.

I chose the tripod and standard dish vs the roof mounted travelr for a few reasons. One is that I camp in trees often enough that I would have to carry the dish anyway. The second is cost.

Learning to set up the dish is easy with the right equipment. If you go that route, PM me and I'll let you know what I learned over the years of doing this.

As a side note, I found that the farther north I traveled, the harder time the portable dish had picking up HD signals on 129. The reason for this is you are on a much flatter trajectory thus shooting through far more of earths atmosphere. The other limitation that the portables has is coax cable length. The dish is smaller thus if you need to move your dish farther from the RV to pickup a clear sky, you can lose reception.

Hope that helps some.

Ken

Ken knows what he's talking about, He's helped me, however I can only tell you about mine. I posted here and another forum. Lots of good advice. I ended up getting a Pathway X2 and 2 wally receivers. Just got them all set up yesterday at my house, and then packed away in our 5th wheel waiting for our next trip. I can only tell you that my system was easy to set up, great customer service from Winegard. The worst thing I know so far is, the main box powers the antennia through the coax cable. So if you want to just watch TV in your bedroom, then the living room Receiver has to be "ON" not the best way if like me your using solar most of the time.