Dish tailgater to all 4 TVs

[tracyclifton]

Last weekend we took the rig out for the weekend so we could winterize it. One of my goals was to activate my old Vip211 receiver with my tailgater to see if I could get all the TVs to work. When I used it before I activated the newer Vip211 which only has the HDMI output. In this case I could only watch the TV that the receiver was hooked up to. The older Vip211 has HDMI, component, and co-ax outputs. So I connected the tailgater to the satellite in on the 5th wheel. Turned off the antenna booster in the front bedroom. Then played around with the connections behind the LR TV until I got a signal to the main TV through HDMI. Next I connected a co-ax to the TV out on the back of the receiver and connected it to the other connections on the wall behind the TV until I got signal to all TVs. Of course, we all know that the Vip211 is a single tuner so you get the same program at all TVs, but its hard to watch more than one at a time anyway. The reason I am posting this is the first time I used the tailgater, Dish Network told me I could not connect through my 5th wheel connections because the tailgater wouldn't work with any connections other than directly to the receiver. Well, they were incorrect. So for anyone thinking of about getting a tailgater it is possible.