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az99 · 06-06-2018, 06:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Dale & Mark Bruss

I guess the limited market would make the cost factor too high.

How can it be a limited market? DISH installs nothing but EA setups on new installs on the east coast for at least 5 years. Many RVers never go to the west coast.
Many local markets don't offer HD locals on WA.

I bet if both the antenna builders were located on the east coast rather than the mid west, the solution would have been found years ago.

Dale & Mark Bruss · 06-06-2018, 06:48 AM

So how many thousands of EA Trav'lers would Winegard be able to sell?

RVers represent maybe .5 to 1 million Dish subscribers and we can easily say that Trav'ler owners are not a high representation in that group.

Only Winegard can run the numbers and determine the market.

knightstorm · 06-06-2018, 11:06 AM

Winegard needs to be up front about their Dish coverage in the east and northeast. Their sales literature does not state “will not work in the following regions....”.

They could design a dual LNB antenna if they wanted to.

Dale & Mark Bruss · 06-06-2018, 11:20 AM

As I have said, I was getting the WA (minus 129) in Prince Edward Island which is a bit farther north and east of the Northeast. So now we are down to working in my words or your words.

The Trav'ler is a triple LNBF dish already. The engineering for a dual ARC system is absolutely possible, it just won't pay for itself. There are many who feel $1300 is too much to pay already.

JMonroe · 06-06-2018, 01:51 PM

We get the east coast feeds. We've been coast to coast over the last 8 years as well as far south as mid keys, as far north as North Dakota. We've never had a problem locking onto the sats or getting all the channels.

I have no idea where the notion that you can get too far from the sats ever came from.

BillJinOR · 06-06-2018, 02:54 PM

The western satellites just become lower in the sky the further east and esp northeast you get. If you can see them you get ALL the national Chanel’s , no problem. Some eastern cities HD locals are on the eastern feeds. That’s the only problem, if you must have HD.
The travel’r gets everything else everywhere in the country. Height from the horizon may be the only issue that makes a backup ( I have a pathway x2 buried in a storage bay ) eastern capable dish .. nice to have, but certainly not required.
Dish is much more friendly to RV.. I’ve had both.

UFO Pilot · 06-06-2018, 03:00 PM

I have the Dish Travler and I have traveled across the US to Florida and up the East Coast to Maine. I received all of my West Coast channels except for a few that are spot beamed. I managed to watch all of the SF Giants baseball games in every State we were in.

I asked Winegard about the East Coast feeds and they said I didn't need them.

Stuart W · 06-06-2018, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by JMonroe

We get the east coast feeds. We've been coast to coast over the last 8 years as well as far south as mid keys, as far north as North Dakota. We've never had a problem locking onto the sats or getting all the channels.

I have no idea where the notion that you can get too far from the sats ever came from.

I agree with you, especially if you subscribe to the fact that the earth is round and rotating , the satellites orbit the earth right?

az99 · 06-08-2018, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Dale & Mark Bruss

As I have said, I was getting the WA (minus 129) in Prince Edward Island which is a bit farther north and east of the Northeast. So now we are down to working in my words or your words.

The Trav'ler is a triple LNBF dish already. The engineering for a dual ARC system is absolutely possible, it just won't pay for itself. There are many who feel $1300 is too much to pay already.

You must be right as you have all the answers.

timjet · 06-26-2018, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by deaton

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If I was getting a new one, it would be the R F Mogul. It costs a little more but is an overall better unit IMO.

If you are not in a hurry, come on up to the FMCA Rally in Gillette Wyoming in July and there will be several vendors there ready, willing and able to sell and install any Dish you want for a better price than $2,400.

There will be 2 satellite vendors at the rally. Neither do RF Mogul.

TVforMyRV · 06-26-2018, 07:49 AM

Eastern Arc on Travler 1000

1. To change a Travler to Eastern arc would require at a minimum - physically replacing the LNB array with the one that has proper spacing for the eastern arc, and the correct reflector. Then the programming in the IDU would need updated.

There is NO way to have one physical antenna do both western and eastern arc at the same time.

TVforMyRV · 06-26-2018, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Stuart W

I agree with you, especially if you subscribe to the fact that the earth is round and rotating , the satellites orbit the earth right?

TV satellites are "Geo Stationary/ Geo Synchronous" meaning that they orbit the earth at the same speed the earth rotates, and therefore stay at the same spot overhead of the equator relative to a spot on the ground. If you travel east or west on the ground, you will eventually go far enough around the earth to block the line of sight to a "stationary" satellite.