Dish network eastern arc???

Larry337 wrote:

lryrob9301 wrote:

Larry337 wrote:
Slightly off topic but related...I have an automatic Winegard Pathway 2 that is capable of picking up western or eastern arc. I have only used it twice. Both times I picked up the western arc by aiming roughly 220 deg. Roughly speaking, where would I aim the dish to pickup the eastern arc?

You don't aim a Pathway x2. When you place it outside you point the handle to the north, then the antenna finds which ever set of satellites you have selected during setup, eastern arc or western arc.

If you are trying to find the relative location of the eastern arc satellites then subtract 50 to 60 degrees from the western arc heading.

Sorry I should have worded the question differently, I'm used to manually aiming my dish. When I point my handle north and the dish locks on to the eastern arc what general direction will it find the satellites? Are they also in the south western sky?

They are along the Eastern Coast so you need a clear SE view.

az99 wrote:

TechWriter wrote:

I think the trick would be to determine what WA sat the Travler uses to tune in 61.5° in Manual Mode.

Then . . . maybe . . .

It tunes to the center LNB. The 119º sat on WA. I tested it. I set it to 61.5 manually and put aluminum foil on the outer LNB's.
Don't forget about the skew. If you are on the east coast, only about 3º is needed.

Good to know,thank you!

TechWriter wrote:

I think the trick would be to determine what WA sat the Travler uses to tune in 61.5° in Manual Mode.

Then . . . maybe . . .

It tunes to the center LNB. The 119º sat on WA. I tested it. I set it to 61.5 manually and put aluminum foil on the outer LNB's.
Don't forget about the skew. If you are on the east coast, only about 3º is needed.

Larry337 wrote:

lryrob9301 wrote:

Larry337 wrote:
Slightly off topic but related...I have an automatic Winegard Pathway 2 that is capable of picking up western or eastern arc. I have only used it twice. Both times I picked up the western arc by aiming roughly 220 deg. Roughly speaking, where would I aim the dish to pickup the eastern arc?

You don't aim a Pathway x2. When you place it outside you point the handle to the north, then the antenna finds which ever set of satellites you have selected during setup, eastern arc or western arc.

If you are trying to find the relative location of the eastern arc satellites then subtract 50 to 60 degrees from the western arc heading.

Sorry I should have worded the question differently, I'm used to manually aiming my dish. When I point my handle north and the dish locks on to the eastern arc what general direction will it find the satellites? Are they also in the south western sky?

No, they are in a general heading of 180 to 160 degrees, due south to southeast.

paulcardoza wrote:
The Wineguard Trav'ler is NOT programmable for the EA, no matter what lnb you attach to it. This question has come up fairly often and Wineguard has clearly stated that there is NO configuration available. Your only option for the EA is a separate manually aimed dish, or one of the carryouts that is programmable.

Yes, Paul, that's the company line, but there may be a way to "fool" a Travler.

For example, if you put a DISH Travler in Manual Mode, the dish can be made to look for sat 61.5° using a standard 3 LNB Western Arc 1000.2 dish.

I think you might be able to attach the Eastern Arc 2 LNB. However, this would require modifying the LNB bracket on a Travler.

What makes me think that this could work is that the Eastern Arc 2 LNB attachment for a 1000.2 is unusually wired . . . in a possibly good way: it has 3 sat connections (just like the 1000.2 WA LNBs), but on the 1000.2 EA LNBs 2 of the 3 connections are for the same sat (72.7°). So there's more of a chance of tuning in sat 72.7°:



I think the trick would be to determine what WA sat the Travler uses to tune in 61.5° in Manual Mode.

Then . . . maybe . . .

The Wineguard Trav'ler is NOT programmable for the EA, no matter what lnb you attach to it. This question has come up fairly often and Wineguard has clearly stated that there is NO configuration available. Your only option for the EA is a separate manually aimed dish, or one of the carryouts that is programmable.

TechWriter wrote:

dbonney wrote:
Getting back to the Trav'ler. You cannot get a LNB for the eastern arc. However, you can manually tune to the 64 satellite and get almost all of the HD channels.

A couple of things . . .

The Eastern Arc (EA) sats are 61.5°, 72.7°, and 77°. There is no 64° sat

Second, the Winegard Travler is just an automatic 1000.2 dish -- and there is an EA LNB for the 1000.2 (bottom of web page).

I'm pretty sure you could replace the Travler's Western Arc LNB with the EA LNB. But would it work? Love to try it.

lryrob9301 wrote:

Larry337 wrote:
Slightly off topic but related...I have an automatic Winegard Pathway 2 that is capable of picking up western or eastern arc. I have only used it twice. Both times I picked up the western arc by aiming roughly 220 deg. Roughly speaking, where would I aim the dish to pickup the eastern arc?

You don't aim a Pathway x2. When you place it outside you point the handle to the north, then the antenna finds which ever set of satellites you have selected during setup, eastern arc or western arc.

If you are trying to find the relative location of the eastern arc satellites then subtract 50 to 60 degrees from the western arc heading.

Sorry I should have worded the question differently, I'm used to manually aiming my dish. When I point my handle north and the dish locks on to the eastern arc what general direction will it find the satellites? Are they also in the south western sky?

powderman426 wrote:
Why is it that when you buy a package and it is set for western arc, that you can't receive eastern arc without Dish making the change??

You can. Just do a Check Switch.

dbonney wrote:
Getting back to the Trav'ler. You cannot get a LNB for the eastern arc. However, you can manually tune to the 64 satellite and get almost all of the HD channels.

A couple of things . . .

The Eastern Arc (EA) sats are 61.5°, 72.7°, and 77°. There is no 64° sat

Second, the Winegard Travler is just an automatic 1000.2 dish -- and there is an EA LNB for the 1000.2 (bottom of web page).

I'm pretty sure you could replace the Travler's Western Arc LNB with the EA LNB. But would it work? Love to try it.

Getting back to the Trav'ler. You cannot get a LNB for the eastern arc. However, you can manually tune to the 64 satellite and get almost all of the HD channels. At times, you may also get one of the other satellites (77 or 72) at the same time. If a channel you want is not on 64, then you will have to manually tune to the satellite where the channel is located. Manual mode means it will automatically find only the single satellite.

Hope this helps.