Question about slimline 3

How far are you from home?
You can only get them within a certain distance from home. 150 miles or so.

You have Direct Tv? If so, you should be able to go throughs be setup again to change the dish type.

It is in my back yard right now, getting ready to leave Tuesday. Yes DirectTV; you should be able to go through the setup again to change the dish type. this is what I thought also, but it picked it own dish type and switch type.

Looks like a call to Directv is I order.
That is always a whole lot of fun.

Some area of the Country are not able to receive locals with a SL3. If you happen to be in one of those markets your locals are broadcast on 119 and you will need to replace your SWM3 with a SWM5.
There is only one correct setting for the SWM3 and as you have noted, the receiver will set it automatically.
The signal meter should be showing SWM plus 101, 99 and 103. You will see 99(s) and 99(c) plus 103 (ca and cb) plus 103(s). The (s) are spot beamed channels.
You should have only one cable connected to the receiver, you should not have any B-Band converters installed and you should have a PI21 (21V) power inserter installed.

I converted over to SWM and every time the power went off I had to go back and change the settings on all the receivers as they changed. I had the power inserter hooked to the DVR player and so I went and connected it to the main splitter so it was installed before all the other receivers. Seem to fix that problem.

Bill.Winegard wrote:
Some area of the Country are not able to receive locals with a SL3. If you happen to be in one of those markets your locals are broadcast on 119 and you will need to replace your SWM3 with a SWM5.
There is only one correct setting for the SWM3 and as you have noted, the receiver will set it automatically.
The signal meter should be showing SWM plus 101, 99 and 103. You will see 99(s) and 99(c) plus 103 (ca and cb) plus 103(s). The (s) are spot beamed channels.
You should have only one cable connected to the receiver, you should not have any B-Band converters installed and you should have a PI21 (21V) power inserter installed.

Bill i can only see the swm and 101, also i have the b-band in because that is the way the it is on my house with swm5. to note though, I tried without the b-band, and all wokrd the same as with.

Thanks for the help

You never use B Band with SWM.

Bill.Winegard wrote:
Some area of the Country are not able to receive locals with a SL3. If you happen to be in one of those markets your locals are broadcast on 119 and you will need to replace your SWM3 with a SWM5.

Bill:

I just ordered an Slimline 3 on a tripod for when I can't use my Trav'ler. Since it says it has a built-in multi-switch then I assume it is an SWM unit and that means I will need a power injector also? Is that correct?

Bill.Winegard wrote:
You never use B Band with SWM.

Bill I beleave you, that's just the way they installed it with my SWM-5 system on my house, seems to work with or without

docj wrote:

Bill.Winegard wrote:
Some area of the Country are not able to receive locals with a SL3. If you happen to be in one of those markets your locals are broadcast on 119 and you will need to replace your SWM3 with a SWM5.

Bill:

I just ordered an Slimline 3 on a tripod for when I can't use my Trav'ler. Since it says it has a built-in multi-switch then I assume it is an SWM unit and that means I will need a power injector also? Is that correct?

A multiswitch may or may not be a SWM switch. If you order a SWM3 then it will be SWM but there is also a non-SWM3 LNB.