Re: Tracstar Satellite Problems
Reply #26 –
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
Topic: Tracstar Satellite Problems