Dish question

[ccso2213]

So I recently had Dish installed at home and purchased a Wally for the camper. The install guy was very nice and provided me with a dish on a tripod for the road. Here is my question. Without a tailgater, the Wally doesn't prompt to locate the satellite. When I hook up the dish, I'm having trouble locating the sat without a signal meter. Does the Wally have a feature similar to direct receivers that puts out a tone to locate satellites? If so, how do I get to it? Thanks in advance for all the help!


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[anav8or]

Originally Posted by ccso2213

So I recently had Dish installed at home and purchased a Wally for the camper. The install guy was very nice and provided me with a dish on a tripod for the road. Here is my question. Without a tailgater, the Wally doesn't prompt to locate the satellite. When I hook up the dish, I'm having trouble locating the sat without a signal meter. Does the Wally have a feature similar to direct receivers that puts out a tone to locate satellites? If so, how do I get to it? Thanks in advance for all the help!


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I haven't used the Wally, but on my VIP211k receiver, I can access the tone through the menu - system setup -> installation -> point dish. I would think that the Wally has something similar.

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[ccso2213]

Anav8or, thanks. the Wally has the same interface as the hopper, so I think it's different from yours. I may try setting it to classic interface and see if I can find it as you've described. Thanks for replying!


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[anav8or]

Originally Posted by ccso2213

Anav8or, thanks. the Wally has the same interface as the hopper, so I think it's different from yours. I may try setting it to classic interface and see if I can find it as you've described. Thanks for replying!


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Ahhh, gotcha. We have a hopper as well - there is a point dish option under settings/diagnostics. It doesn't work (says not available) on the Joey's but I think it is active on the hopper itself.

Good luck!

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[ccso2213]

Cool. Thanks!
Edit: No luck there on my hopper, but I'll look on the Wally when I get a chance. All I could find before, all I could get was the signal strength meter. No point dish option. [emoji30]

[ccso2213]

I went ahead and ordered a signal strength meter from Amazon. Didn't really want to go that route, but it was only $8 on Amazon. Just didn't want to have one more piece of gear to carry. Or deal with extra cables. I've got about 50' of coax attached to the dish. Still better than a few hundred on a tailgater. Lol


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