Travler problems?----8 November SOLVED Bill.Satellite Note

It looks like your receiver may have the wrong antenna selected (5 LNB). You should only be getting the 99, 101 and 103. Your receiver should be set for the 3 LNB antenna. It should be 3 LNB SWM if you have a SWM set up.

The 99 and 103 numbers are very bad but 101 is very good. Have you set your receiver to show both SD and HD channels to see if the missing channels are available in SD? If not, give it a try and I suspect you will find that they show up. As mentioned above you also need to set the receiver to the correct antenna type. The new Trav'ler with built in SWM uses antenna type 17 and SWM. The older non-SWM or a non-SWM converted to SWM 8 will use that or a different SWM setup (antenna type 8 if IIRC).

Thanks!

Note: my setup has worked for years and nothing changed except we had no coverage in Mexico for 2.5 months. As stated earlier, I did reauthorize or whatever they call it. It was set on 18, SL5S(SWM)

I'm not getting HD (get a 771 error) on 230(DIY); 277(Travel); 392(NBC East). I DO get SD on all these.

I changed it as suggested to #17 and get red x's in all but both 101s. 101=95; 99ca=53; 99cb=58; 99s=43. I still don't have the HD's for the above channels.

PS: I tried #8 and got same thing (plus the 119)

Again, thanks!

Edit: if it helps, here are the transponders with a 0:
101: 4, 12, 18, 26, 28
99CA: 16, 21
99S: 2, 4, 5-8, 16, 19-24
99CB: all ok
103S: all 0 except 18
103CA: odd's 0
103CB: odd's 0

Either your antenna is partially blocked by a pole or tree or you have an issue with the antenna itself. The LNB could have gone bad but you are getting just about NO service from the 99 and 103 LNB's. The 101 LNB is fine and the signal right about where it should be. That's why you are getting SD but not HD. HD is broadcast on the 99 and 103 satellites while SD comes from 101.
Ignore numbers from 99(s) and 103(s) as these are spot beamed transponders and rarely show any signal.

I'm in the Tucson desert so no blockage. No electrical storms in Mexico but a whole lot of shake rattle and roll. Where does one get an LNB for Travler...is it a Winegard thing? What should I ask for?

Thanks so much!

This is what I have now: DIRECTV SlimLine 5 LNB Ka/Ku Slim Line LNB for Satellite Dish (SL5), Brand: DIRECTV Slim Line P\N: SL5 UPC: 752902100882

RV.Net won't let me post link to Solid SIgnal site

try a link that does NOT have a percent 0/0 sign in it
the server software has glitch with any link that has that in it

Belgique wrote:
I'm in the Tucson desert so no blockage. No electrical storms in Mexico but a whole lot of shake rattle and roll. Where does one get an LNB for Travler...is it a Winegard thing? What should I ask for?

Thanks so much!

This is what I have now: DIRECTV SlimLine 5 LNB Ka/Ku Slim Line LNB for Satellite Dish (SL5), Brand: DIRECTV Slim Line P\N: SL5 UPC: 752902100882

RV.Net won't let me post link to Solid SIgnal site

That is what you would replace it with. It is not a Winegard part, it is a DirecTV part.
So, if that is the LNB and you are not using SWM then the eariler setups are not correct and you must also be using a B-Band converter to get HD. You need the Slimline 5 antenna selection and Multi-switch as the switch type. That is likely where you were when you started. 110 and 119 will show up but there is nothing on 110 and almost nothing on 119 so simply ignore any information on those transponders. This also assumes that you did not add the SWM8 kit to convert your older Trav'ler to SWM.

I did convert to swm. U even helped me several years ago like you've helped so many of us. Thanks!

So should I get the same LNB or a diff one?

You must use the same LNB that came with your Trav'ler if you need to replace it. The antenna uses 101, 110 and 119 to set the antenna properly so replacing it with anything else would be a mistake. You also cannot update to the SL5 SWM setup so just get a replacement exactly like the one you have.
My "WAG" is that it's something else but that's as good a place to start as any assuming you have done the "calibrate EL" routine and it was successful.

Thanks Bill! I'd never heard of the Calibrate EL but found it on google. Did it. Seemed ok but numbers changed sightly worse. Now get red x on 101 odds.

ON EDIT: Re-aimed and got 2nd set of nums. Now get checks on both 101.

99ca 0 0
99cb 26 60
99 s 0 0
101 91 96
103s 0 46
103ca 0 0
103cb 0 0
110 0 0
119 76 80

If the dish or arm got bent would that do it? Not saying it happened but we did have some small branch hits while driving. Is there any alternative to buy and swap? Probably not I guess...what would you start with?