Dish DirecTV Winegard questions
Hello, I recently purchased a 2008 motorhome that came with a winegard roof mounted satellite dish. The private owner I bought the motorhome from was the second owner of the rig and had never bothered...
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rbreak, let's give you a bit more information, so you'll understand why you can't have an automatic dome-type antenna for DirectTV HD.
Unlike DISH, which only requires 3 satellites on 1 frequency band for their HD service, Direct uses 5 satellites over 2 frequency bands for its HD. There isn't a way of putting 2 different frequency banded LNB horns in a dome, to operate on the same motor.
The Winegard Traveler DirectTV automatically pointed rooftop open-dish model has space to mount all 5 LNB horns with a wider parabola dish to focus the signals. So do the portable manually pointed dishes.
So, if you want an automatically pointed antenna and it has to be a dome, then you have to choose between DISH service or DirectTV SD only.
Unlike DISH, which only requires 3 satellites on 1 frequency band for their HD service, Direct uses 5 satellites over 2 frequency bands for its HD. There isn't a way of putting 2 different frequency banded LNB horns in a dome, to operate on the same motor.
The Winegard Traveler DirectTV automatically pointed rooftop open-dish model has space to mount all 5 LNB horns with a wider parabola dish to focus the signals. So do the portable manually pointed dishes.
So, if you want an automatically pointed antenna and it has to be a dome, then you have to choose between DISH service or DirectTV SD only.
