Winegard SK-SWM-3
Has anyone installed this model yet? I did and have nothing but problems from the get-go. Even though the control box shows a lock on 99 101 103 my HR-24 keeps showing no lock on 99 and 103. ...
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az99 wrote:I get that, hence the question..SCVJeff wrote:It is the Winegard box that is connected to the dish that can't find the sats. A receiver is not needed and has nothing to do with the dish locking onto the sats.
That doesn't make sense. SWM is just an acronym for LNB that outputs on a specific frequency block depending on the satellite, as opposed to 'standard' L-Band. The new receivers know where to look for each satellite's IF, and there are really cheap SWM 'filters' that allow the L Band meters to select several different blocks for manual tweaking. So why would a Winegard engineer (of all people) say that it can't work? He built it...
