Winegard Dish Playmaker Dual Portable Automatic Satellite Antenna with Dish Wally HD Receiver

Order this product, had a dish technician work for 4 hours and could not get the Wally to work. He tried everything but it was defective. Don't they have any quality control before they put the equipment in the box?

Yes - dual feed you need two Wallys, two DVR hard drives, two 25 ft coaxs, two hdmi cables and one Antenna A Wally is receiver that controls the dish antenna. A hopper will not control the dish antenna that finds and tracks your satellites. Now could you use your hopper as a slave receiver. I don't have that answer. I think it is possible. Maybe some software issues. What you get in the box - 1 antenna, 1 Wally, 1 25ft Coax, and 1 hdmi cable. No DVR included. The DVR - self powered external harddrive of 2TB or less. Is only needed if you want to record. $7 fee to have Dish Network enable devices. Master Wally - controls what satellite both TVs or Wallys watch. Wally selects the channel on that satellite you want to watch.Slaved Wally - Tech Support could do nothing to help. Software issue in the Wally caused slave receiver to go off line. This issues is still a problem and dish has no resolution at this time. Still remaining issue is you watch what ever satellite of the three your master Wally receiver is watching. Also this antenna system only receives 1 eastern satellite. The dish antenna - is like a very focused flashlight pointing into the sky. Yes - trees, heavy rains, snow, and your neibors RV cause signal loss. The X2 receives all 3 satellites for western and all 3 in eastern. Depending on your current location. That being said the X2 has a flat face is more likely to be affected by snow and rain. It is also an older antenna system. I don't remember slaving on the X2. It had loose parts inside and was returned.

Several calls to Dish Tech support. Dish sent a new Walley.The system would not locate satellites or picture signal. The Wally was activated, and Dish sent a reset signal. The Playmaker still did not locate SatelitesThe Replacement Wally had the same response and Satellite activation Failed at the Same 33% point in the satellite location process. The Winegard Playmaker was most likely defective.I returned the Playmaker and purchased a Disk King TAILGATER 4After reading the Full PDF manual the problem may have been acquiring the 129 Degree satellite in the Nort East States.The Tailgater acquired the satellites but took quite a while. I changed to the61, 111 & 119 Satellites. They loaded much faster > initial set up takes quite a while.I am now a happy camper .

Bought the mounting kit and installed it on the roof of the RV.

Do not order this dish with a Wally Receiver. Order the receiver from Dish. The one that comes with this package has software that is way our of date and it is almost impossible to get it to work. If you order a Wally Receiver from Dish, then the software is updated and the start up is easy. DO NOT ORDER THIS AS A PACKAGE OR YOU WILL BE SORRY.