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Yes, Virginia, you can convert DirecTV to DISH

Updated: Jan 17, 2022 (Updated in green.)

Updated: August 28, 2022 (Updated in red.)

Updated: July 31, 2022 (Updated text in blueish.)

Here's the Winegard YouTube Installation Video.

Here's the How-To Manual (PDF)

Then you take DirecTV satellite Television set and you desire to alter to DISH. Proficient for you.

However, yous have a rooftop DirecTV Winegard Travler that you bought for a lot of $$$. What to exercise? Spend another couple of thou to buy the DISH version of the Winegard Travler? In that location's no need to practise this.

Yous can catechumen the DirecTV SK-3003, DirecTV Slimline (SK-3005) or SWM (SK-SWM3) versions of the Winegard Travler to its DISH counterpart for only a few hundred dollars. Here's how . . .

Start, determine what type of DirecTV Travler you own . . . there are 3 versions: SK-3003, SK-3005, SK-SWM3. However, on 7/31/nineteen a Winegard Tech Support rep told me via email that the SK-3003 tin can not be upgraded to a DISH SK-chiliad.

Agree the mail . . .

Equally of August 28, 2022, a Winegard Tech Back up rep emailed me this:

"I wanted to reach back out regarding our previous conversation on the conversion from DTV to Dish for our Trav'ler products. Nosotros had previously stated that the SK-3003 could not be converted, however subsequently looking into information technology farther that is not the case. All three DTV models (SK-3003 / SK-3005 / SK-SWM3) tin be converted using the RP-SK11 & RP-SK21 kits. The links y'all had previously sent are the right models and can be purchased directly or through our vendors. I apologize for the confusion on this. Please allow me know if you have any other questions regarding the conversion procedure."

If you lot've been following this saga, we're back to square one: what I had here originally (before the July 31st update) was correct. Simply I merely had to check out a numb nuts IRV2 poster'due south claim. That's what happens when you listen to fools.

Note that all DirecTV Travler versions crave 2 Winegard kits — RP SK-eleven and the RP SK-21:

These two kits have been merged into one kit that Winegard now calls the OE-DISH kit. Every bit of 7/31/xix, the individual RPSK-11 and RP SK-21 are still being sold online on Amazon and by at least one dealer. However, y'all're improve off ordering the OE-DISH kit directly from Winegard (800-288-8094) for about $230.

RP SK-11 Kit (1000.2 dish)

RP SK-21 Kit (LNB Arm Associates)

In add-on, if you own a DirecTV SK-3005 (Slimline dish), so you must check both the IDU and ODU software versions (see Winegard Travler Documentation):

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DIRECTV TRAVLER (Slimline SK-3005) CONVERSION PHOTOS

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DISH HOPPER EXAMPLES

If you have a DISH Winegard Travler, you should connect it to a DISH Hopper with peradventure a Joey or two. The Hopper is DISH's version of the DirecTV Genie — a whole home DVR system.

The Hopper i (original), Hopper 2 (Hopper with Sling), and the new 16-tuner Hopper 3 will all piece of work with a standard Winegard Travler SK1000:

Hopper i & 2

DISH Hopper Examples