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Re: Tracstar Satellite Problems

Reply #20 –
Quote from: ltg –
BigD629,
That is great. My SV360 would not work in Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. I removed it and replaced it with a Winegard. My brothers SV360 works with Directv SD but not HD.
Larry
From my understanding, you can only receive Direct HD with a Traveler System. That is why I went with Dish. I will be upgrading to the Traveler for Dish when we go fulltime. Then we can use the Hopper setup for the DVR.

Re: Tracstar Satellite Problems

Reply #21 –
I am happy to learn that like the Tracstar, the new Wineguard Traveler dish also picks up local broadcast channels (including HD). I think it's important to be able to see local news and weather.

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Reply #22 –
Do not wish to hijack this thread..........

I think the following statement is accurate:

With DTV be it TracStar of Travler you will only get "local" channels when you are in your "service address" area.  If your "service address" is Houston you will get all channels including local Houston channels.  If you move to Savannah you will not get local channels either Houston or Savannah.  You must call DTV and change your "service address" to get Savannah local channels but you will not be able to get Houston.  I do not know of restrictions as to how many "service address" changes can be made.

On another note, you can not get HD with TracStar - sv260 or sv360 as they have a dome. 

I believe HD does work with the sv260 & sv360 while using Dish as a program provider.

As stated above, our sv260 stopped tracking the DTV sat. so we installed the Travler and now get HD programming. 

We have been changing our "service address" when we are in a location longer than one week to get local channels.

Re: Tracstar Satellite Problems

Reply #23 –
Quote from: Carol & Scott –
Do not wish to hijack this thread..........

I think the following statement is accurate:

With DTV be it TracStar of Travler you will only get "local" channels when you are in your "service address" area.  If your "service address" is Houston you will get all channels including local Houston channels.  If you move to Savannah you will not get local channels either Houston or Savannah.  You must call DTV and change your "service address" to get Savannah local channels but you will not be able to get Houston.  I do not know of restrictions as to how many "service address" changes can be made.

We have been changing our "service address" when we are in a location longer than one week to get local channels.

We use to change our "service address" as we moved in and out of local spot beams (but we were only moving at 9 mph and stopping along the way). I discovered that if I changed my "service address" to New York city, I could get the network channels out of NY no matter where we were.

That will happen  for us either in Nac or the next stop up the road.
This does mean that the tvs in the house in Austin also get the NY networks and the guide shows NY time, but thats ok -  I'm not there and guests will just have to live with it.
If I want local-local news I use OTA.

hth

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Reply #24 –
This is in my future.  Any recommendations for installers in the north to northwest?  Headed to Pacific northwest via Wisconsin and North Dakota.

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Reply #25 –
does the TracStar use a standard LND. Not HD
 

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Reply #26 –
Quote from: Ronnie Free –
does the TracStar use a standard LND. Not HD

To answer your question, Trac Star used a dual LNBF and an integrated stacker, to run two receivers and the controller down one coax. They used a multi-switcher for splitting up to 4 receivers. State of the art, and actually still is.Most tour busses used them.

Trac Star RV dishes are long gone. They still build commercial military satellites.Even tough the hardware (dish mechanism) is awesome and works, no software upgrades any longer for more then 4 years.

I installed probably 25 of them. Just threw ours away. It worked with Directv, in most places (not all including southern California) but wouldn't switch satellites anywhere. They WILL NO LONGER WORK with Dish. I tried it several times.

Your best bet for in-motion HD Dish, and SD Directv is a Winegard T4. No HD with Directv with any dome dish.

FYI, if you have an older Directv receiver, you may get it to work, well sort of, but if you have a newer SWIM only receiver, it's not going to work. You can get the Star Trac dish to lock on 101 satellite (depending where you are at), but SWIM receivers are not compatible, and dish can't be converted to work with them.

Chris