Direct TV sattelite - runs how many TVs ?
Hi All We are wondering if we have Direct TV satellite on the RV's roof & into our 2014 Tiffin Open Road, will our standard Direct TV plan allow all of the three TVs in the RV to play the same & or d...
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In the previous posts a number of people have tried to relate the number of LNBs on a dish to the number of TVs it can serve. That is not the case and hasn't been for many years. It is purely happenstance that the Winegard Trav'ler for Dish has three ports and has three LNBs. The three LNBs are there because the system is tuned to three different satellites at the same time; the multiswitch makes possible the connection to multiple receivers, not the number of LNBs.
The typical DirecTV Slimline 5 dish which has been in use for several years and which is what is used on the Winegard Trav'ler SK3005 looks like it has 3 LNBs but it really has 5. Before SWM technology this dish could serve 4 receivers; now with SMW it can serve 8 or 16 depending on whether a SWM8 or SWM16 switch it used.
The typical DirecTV Slimline 5 dish which has been in use for several years and which is what is used on the Winegard Trav'ler SK3005 looks like it has 3 LNBs but it really has 5. Before SWM technology this dish could serve 4 receivers; now with SMW it can serve 8 or 16 depending on whether a SWM8 or SWM16 switch it used.
