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Gina,
To answer your question, no the tailgater will not work with the Hopper.
The reason is that the tailgater uses software to access the three satellites. It cannot see all three at once. The Hopper requires all three and a node installed in line for it to work. The only way for the Hopper to function is to use a roof mounted Traveler or a portable dish (the large Dish 1000, mounted on a tripod) with 3 LNB's. The latter is what I travel with. I take my Hopper & Joey from the house and use it on the road.
I used to travel with a tailgater and a VIP211. There is a Dish solution to having a DVR with this setup. You can attach an external hard disk and it will perform exactly like an internal DVR. Dish charges a one time activation. You can purchase your own external hard disk. The older VIP211k didn't have a powered usb port so Dish requires an external hard disk with its own power supply. I believe that the newer VIP211z has a powered usb port so the external hard disk does not need to have its own power supply.
Hope that helps,
Ken
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