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Anybody have experience with the new King Tailgater or Quest portable satellite domes?

 

The are selling in the range of $349.00 at Camping World. As usual the sales people at Camping World have no clue about how they are working out.

 

At that low price point, I can't help but wonder how well the function.

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I looked at it online and it looks like it's a replacement for the original Tailgater with a few added features, I like the dome design instead of the cube. If my existing Tailgater goes bad I would replace it with the King or a Pathway X2, the X2 gets both east and west satellites so that will probability win out.

 

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We had poor signal strength with the Tail gater. We recently bought the Pathway X2 and it has very good signal strength and we are getting many stations we could not get with Tailgater.

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We bought a new King Tailgater a couple of weeks ago and are really impressed with it. It is a good upgrade of the older Tailgater. We just find a spot with a view of the southern sky and hook it to our VIP211k and within about 10 minutes you have HD television! The only negative is that it operates on the 110, 119, 129 orbitals (Western Arc), which means that if you are in Florida or the Northeast, you may only get the SD broadcasts on 110 and 119.

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We bought a new King Tailgater a couple of weeks ago and are really impressed with it. It is a good upgrade of the older Tailgater. We just find a spot with a view of the southern sky and hook it to our VIP211k and within about 10 minutes you have HD television! The only negative is that it operates on the 110, 119, 129 orbitals (Western Arc), which means that if you are in Florida or the Northeast, you may only get the SD broadcasts on 110 and 119.

We were all over Florida last winter and always got all three satellites and all our HD channels and locals, only one time on a overnight stop I had to tell them I was in a different location so we could get the western arc. The spot beams overlap and most major areas are on both arcs.

 

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We purchased a King Quest Direct TV portable from Camping World and after using it on vacation in Florida I am happy with it. It took about 1 hour to get it set up with a Direct TV tech and after that it worked as advertised. We did have to get a different receiver because the satellite requires a certain Direct TV receiver. No big deal all we did was call them up and explain what we needed and why and then had it delivered to our home. So far so good no complaints.

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I was a fence straddler, too, until a Dish dealer I got to know showed me the pile (literally) of failed Tailgaters in his shop. He had no bad X2s there at all and said they are just better all around than a Tailgater.

 

I decided that we don't move enough to justify the cost for convenience at that time and bought a used 1000.4 TurboHD dish (much better than a 1000.2) and it has proved to be fine on my old tripod. Though I have a VIP211K to drive the X2 or tailgater, I only use the Hopper which won't control either so the 1000.4 was the right solution for me.

 

If I ever moved around enough to justify the cost of an X2, I would have to just use the VIP211 receiver and lose all the real benefits of the Hopper. I bought the remanufactured Hopper for a whole lot less than either the X2 or a Tailgater would have cost.

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