Winegard Trav'ler question
I bought a used RV and it has a Winegard Trav'ler mounted on the roof. Right now it's set up for Direct TV. I'm a Dish Network subscriber so if I can make this thing work, I'll get a Dish dish and m...
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Bill.Satellite wrote:
You must buy the antenna, arm and LNB from Winegard to convert your DirecTV Trav'ler to a Dish Network Trav'ler and you must reprogram the controller for Dish rather than it's current programming for DirecTV. It is an easy do-it-yourself job assuming you are at little bit handy and don't mind going up on the roof. Do not worry about the factory and customer interface slots, you don't need anything plugged in there. You will need the Winegard Power supply which supplies 48VDC to the antenna and you will need to plug in the 6-wire square plug that runs from the antenna to the controller.
Bill and others, just FYI. Thanks, I didn't realize the power supply was 48 volts. I thought it was 12 volts. Since I never did find a power supply in the m/h, I didn't have information on it and just make an assumption (yeah, I know what happens when I do that). Anyway, I went by a RV Tech's business today and he had an old power supply laying around with a used Trav'ler. He let me borrow it to see if mine would power up and go through the process. I plugged it in, hit power and within about 6 or 8 minutes, it locked on the three Direct TV satellites. I came back inside and ordered the Dish dish, power supply and LNB arm (about $350 total). Installation looks like a pretty straight forward simple job. I should have the new stuff in 4 or 5 days. I'll let ya'll know how it turns out after I get it installed.
Thanks again for all your help.
