3 output SK-3005 Conversion to SWM-8

Clay L wrote:
I have a Slimline 3 dish that does receive 99 and 103 on the roof of my house. I wonder if the dish could be used on the SK3003 frame?
I am in AZ so can't check on mounting holes etc.
As said above maybe Bill Adams will come on and clear it up for us.

Seems like OP has PhaseIII dish in the Trav'ler version just like Docj says. It gets the 101, 110 and 119. The SK-3005 gets those plus the 99 and 103 needed for HD. The SK-SWM is the SWM on dish version and just gets the 99, 101 and 103 where most every thing is now except Locals in some markets and some music channels.

The PhaseIII is NOT bolt compatible with a Slimline.

I'm a ground-mounter and converted a PhaseIII to use a SWM SL3 by modding the arm. Later swapped in a "Dish" 1000. Works well but pulling that off on a Trav'ler would be a challenge. Mounting a Slimline would be a bear and lots of trial and error. The Slimline is much heavier so I wonder if the mount would even support it.

I've read an SK-3005 can work with just the 101 in view even though it uses the 101 and 119 to aim. I guess it might work but would be quite a challenge. Might not stow right either. The dish will do SWM with a SWM-8 but won't do HD. It is basically the equivalent of an 18" round dish now. The only reason to SWM it would to support SWM only receivers. On a non-SWM Slimline LNB there are four feeds. You need one cable for each tuner up to four. The PhaseIII supports three tuners. DVR's have TWO tuners. SWM uses one feed that carries eight discreet channels. A receiver requires one feed but uses as many channels as it has tuners. Aregular receiver takes one channel, DVR's two and Genie's five. Run out and you need to use the SWM boxes again. I haven't a clue how that all works.

Somebody did the OP real bad. Did you use a credit card? Close enough to go to small claims court?