Winegard Travler Owners Manual 72 Sat

I have that understanding of the situation as I have asked the question previously of Winegard and told that the 72 setting for 72.7 and the Trav'ler would not work. Up until a few days ago I worked for Winegard and was one of their tech. trainers.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
The way I understand it, the 72 in the menu is not 72.7 and that's why it might see 72 but cannot identify it or lock to it.

Don't ask Winegard. They don't know either. I asked that question to the tech that represented himself as an expert with the Travler. He did not know there is a 72º sat and a72.7º sat.

After the amount of time I have spent trying to get a real answer from them, I don't believe the 72 menu option ever worked from the day they released the Travler. It never came up until recently when people started to want the 72.7 sat for Dish HD. They just won't admit it.

TechWriter wrote:

az99 wrote:
is there any way to manually move the dish? I was wondering if there is anything in the diagnostics?

Do yourself a favor -- if you really want to receive sat 72.7, buy a portable open-faced dish or an automatic like a Pathway X2.

Pathway does not support a Hopper. And I was looking for an automatic solution.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
The way I understand it, the 72 in the menu is not 72.7 and that's why it might see 72 but cannot identify it or lock to it.

I don't think so because the Traveler manual also refers to sat 61.5 as just "61".

The way I understand it, the 72 in the menu is not 72.7 and that's why it might see 72 but cannot identify it or lock to it.

az99 wrote:
is there any way to manually move the dish? I was wondering if there is anything in the diagnostics?

Do yourself a favor -- if you really want to receive sat 72.7, buy a portable open-faced dish or an automatic like a Pathway X2.

No, there are no manual adjustments available in the controller. There is a manual raise or manual lower option but without any ability to control how much. It would move too far in either direction before you could pull the plug to stop it.

Bill- Once it is locked on a sat, lets say 82, is there any way to manually move the dish? I was wondering if there is anything in the diagnostics?

This particular case, the OP has a DirecTV antenna and is trying to lock onto a Dish satellite.
Otherwise, the most likely reason would be a blockage of some kind or if you are traveling to the extremes of the satellite footprint where have one LNB focused directly to one particular satellite might give better results. It might also be able to be used for the reception of some FTA programming available in special instances. Mostly, it is an unused option.

Serious question and not trying to be a wise guy: when would one want to do a manual search in normal usage? Eg, if in trees would doing this help bring in some channels, maybe? Just curious if it is a tool that can be used in certain situations.