More Dish/Winegard Travler problems

Call Dish, they will walk you through it.

DC&MC wrote:
We have the Travler on the roof. Have not moved for 2 months. This is set up the way the Dish installer did it.

We've never had more than 75 signal. When the guy installed one sat was only 40 and he said that would be fine

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These are very good DISH signal strength #s. The 75 is probably for sats 110 & 119. The 40 is probably for sat 129.

donn0128 wrote:
Exacrly what does "good signal" mean? Most of the time you need a signal strength of 80+ to have a signal. 88+ usually ensures a solid signal.

SCVJeff wrote:
1- In DirecTv world, 75 is a mediocre signal at best and it won't take much to lose lock from there.

donn0128 and SCVJeff, these are

DirecTV

signal strengths -- DISH #s are not the same.

DC&MC wrote:
I just tried shutting the hopper off for a few minutes and now that it's booted up again it shows no satellites locked.

Do you have a Hopper 3?

1- In DirecTv world, 75 is a mediocre signal at best and it won't take much to lose lock from there. JUST FOR YUKS: tape a penny at the dish feed hinge, using it as a spacer lifting it ever so slightly, then stow and repoint the antenna. I had a similiar problem and fixed it with a small piece of aluminum angle to refocus the feed back to the parabola, rather that paying Winegard for an entire new assembly. On Direct it brought my sat feeds up between 3 to 8 points depending on the satellite.

2- You say you haven't moved? It could easily be local interfearence, including LED RFI generated by you or your neighbors.

Get up on the roof and look! We spend a winter in Troutdale a few years ago. Used our roof mounted Travler exclusively. Problem was there was a large fir tree between us and the satelite. There were times when the wind was blowing we would loose signal. Once I looked closely it was obvious we were right on the edge of the tree. I ended up moving back about 3 feet and never has a loss of signal again until managment made me move foreword so the landscape people could mow.

A little off topic but I originally got our King Tailgater with the idea of portably moving it around to find a hole in the trees since that irritated me with our previous HM with a roof-mounted dish. After having experience with both, I ended up mounting the dish on the roof of our new MH. I found that having it up another 12 feet compensated for it being stuck in one location as on the ground, bushes and other low objects were just as problematic as trees and success was pretty much the same both ways. At least this way there is one less thing to do when we set up to camp.

We have the Travler on the roof. Have not moved for 2 months. This is set up the way the Dish installer did it. We've never had more than 75 signal. When the guy installed one sat was only 40 and he said that would be fine.

I'm no expert and not even a novice...
I have a different dish model. It says not to use over 50' of cable.
Last summer, I tried to use about 100' and I was getting about the same results you are currently getting.
Found a hole in the trees closer to the rv and went back to 50' of cable. Everything started to work correctly.
Pat

Exacrly what does "good signal" mean? Most of the time you need a signal strength of 80+ to have a signal. 88+ usually ensures a solid signal.

I just tried shutting the hopper off for a few minutes and now that it's booted up again it shows no satellites locked.