I have Dish Network 1000.2 dish and Solo node outside at my home with a Hopper in the house.
For camping stays long enough its worth the time to set it all up, I bought the same: a used Dish 1000.2 and Solo Node on Ebay along with a tripod and a 100' cable, and use the same home Hopper in my trailer when not at home. I mounted a Sat Signal pass thru on the side of my trailer to get the signal into my Edge. Don't try to use the cable TV jack, it just won't work. Investment: about $ 90.
Process:
Find a spot with view of 110, 119, and 129 Dish sats within reach of the 100 foot cable I use between the side of my trailer and the tripod and dish.
I level the tripod and mast and secure it to the ground with tent pegs setting the skew and elevation based on zip code of where I am at. I then set to the aproximate azimuth. I then connect to the hopper with peaking meter in the 119 cable between the Solo and the Dish, turn on the Hopper and set to "point dish and set to Sat 119 Transponder 19 (CNN SD chan. 200) and adjust azimuth to peakusing a cheap sat peaking meter and then the Hopper align dish feature, playing the sound out the speakers on the side of my trailer and do the final peak by sound.
If you got skew and elevation right and the mast is level then you will also pick up the 110 and 129 sat beams and all is good, it will be just like having your home service except that a few features that need a Internet Connection won't work.
The keys are:
= having a clear line of sight to the sky where 110, 119, and 129 sats are at. Peak on a 119 upper transponder first, just like the 1000.2 installation manual says to.
= getting the mast level and the skew and elevation set for your location so that when you find and peak 119 you will also get the 110 and 129 satellites
= the sweet spot on the very directional 1000.2 dish is very small so be patient when moving the dish to find the signal.
= use good quad shield RG-6 cables between the satellite dish and the solo node, and between the solo note and the Satellite Receiver. Use good compression connectors if you make up your own short cables between the 1000.2 LNB and the solo node, and be sure to label which one is 119 so you put your peaking meter in between the 119 output on the LNB and the Solo node when setting up. I have my Solo Node right on the tripod at the Dish so I can run only one wire from there to the trailer. The more expensive 100 foot ones Wal-Mart sells are OK and still much cheaper than Radio Shack or a Home Center, but the cheaper ones Wal-mart sells are junk and don't bother buying them to use for carrying Sat signal. Make sure that you find some that have the center wire coming out past the connector end by at least the width of a nickel, most of the ones at my local Wal-mart the center wire did not come out that far and I found out the hard way they don't work just like the Dish 1000.2 manual says they won't if the center wire is not long enough.
= You can download the 1000.2 manual on the internet and it gives you all the settings for each zip code, or you can get it from an app on your Smart Phone. It also has some instructions that can help you understand how to set the skew and elevation correctly, and tells you which one is the 119 connector on the back of the LNB.
= If you are camping within hour or two of your home, chances are you will get the same local channels at the campground you get at your house, chances are the local channel "spot beam" will be strong enough there. If you don't get the locals because you are too far from home, everything else but the locals will still work. If you want locals when far away from home, then moving your receiver back and forth between camper and home won't work for you.
= Dish has a different "eastern arc" satellites for some of the eastern USA, I know this solution with the 1000.2 at home and when camping works for central and west USA but not sure how far East it would work.
