Another Winegard Travler

Recently completed adding our third Winegard Travler satellite dish onto the roof of our RV.

We’ve had one on each of our two other motorhomes . . .

However, unlike the previous two times, this time we purchased a used Winegard Travler from eBay for $450. The eBay Travler kinda-sorta worked. The motor that turns the Travler around – the azimuth motor – was misbehaving. Sometimes it moved the dish back and forth in a single location over and over. So instead of ordering a replacement motor, we drove up north 300 miles to just south of Redding to pick up a free Winegard Travler:

From the looks of it the free Travler had been sitting around in a barn for a few years. After getting it home, we discovered the insides of the dish were very corroded, and, of course, it didn’t work at all.

So instead of using the azimuth motor from the free dish, a new azimuth motor was ordered and installed in the eBay Travler:

. . . and it finally worked:

Then came some necessary wiring updates to our RV’s entertainment center (we had all the parts from our last Travler install) . . .

Finally, the Winegard Travler was installed on our SeaView’s roof . . .

We’ll see if it’s waterproof after tomorrow’s rain.