winegard automatic swm3 antenna
"No LNB Voltage". Does anybody know where the problem may be? It worked fine last trip but now the dish turns completely upside down with the LNB arm vertical. Makes one revolution and back, then stow...
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Bill.Satellite wrote:
Just FYI, it's never a good idea to scrape the center wire. The signal travels on the surface of the wire and you want that wire to remain as smooth as possible.
As to the other leads, yes, coax is coax. If you really have the SK-SWM3 antenna you should only have 1 wire that leads from the SWM LNB to the base. Where are these other coax cables? Any coax can be used to test if that cable is bad. Even a spare 50 footer sitting around somewhere.
Yes, I "really" have a SWM3 Traveler. I made a new 5-1/2' RG6 jumper. That made no difference. When I say I scrapped, the center I only applied enough pressure to clean the brown corrosion. I really didn't expect it to work. I'm aware that the signal travels on the outer surface just like electric current. That's why multi-stranded wire will carry more current than the equivalent amount of copper in a single strand.
