Search results for query: dish grounding

Vacuum deposition, sputtering. I never found a metallic paint that had any electrical conductivity. Window screening. Worked in a pager/cell phone repair shop with triple mesh screen rooms grounded with earth rods. That made the room 100% rf "quiet". Hams use antennas tuned for specific...

Thank you. This is extremely helpful. I have no problem doing cable burial myself. The ground is like concrete now but Fall rains should soften it up. Can a Tech tie into/splice onto an existing run? I already have a 100' run so only a 50-60' extension would be needed. There is no house...

How deep does the cable have to be?

There's a lot there lol. Different techs will handle it differently. But this is how I would handle it. 1. The shorter the cable run the better. From dish all the way to receiver you want to be under 200' total. So just 160' from dish to house is already starting off with quite a bit if...

I appreciate you entertaining my queries lol but I am going to ask how hard is it to do the whole hard drive switch? Now I'll admit I am a neophyte and if its more than unscrewing screws and unplugging it and plugging it into the other it might be outside my realm of ability. Also, if dish sees...

I just signed up for Dish network and have an install scheduled early next week and would like to know what to expect from the tech doing the install. (I'm converting from Directv). My current setup is 100' of buried coax from my home to a ground mast. At the time I buried the cable myself in...

Technically of you removed the drive from old hopper and put it in new hopper you could see your recording. However I'm not sure if the receiver and smartcard numbers are stored into the hard drive. So it may say you aren't active. But from there I guess you could transfer to external hard drive...

Thank you for responding, I have a couple clarifying questions, How exactly is the storage effected by the inability to boot up? Wouldn't the new hopper just treat it like an external drive and access the storage as long as thats not fried and transfer the recordings? Or is there some kind of...

If it won't boot up then unfortunately there's no way to transfer recordings. Aa far as surge protectors go there's no guarantee it won't happen again. If it's high enough voltage it's going to destroy everything including the surge protector no matter what. However I do not recommend the coax...

Have you checked dishpointer.com ? The reason I ask is that if you are in California you should get at least 16 degrees of elevation and about 46 degrees skew. I have tried getting 180E here in California a few times without success. My problem is another house and trees that are in the way...

I would try Mike's ^^^ suggestion first with the connectors. And if the connectors look good then check for voltage between ground and the center conductor. Beyond that, have you checked to see if the dish is bent? Also, is the pole still perfectly vertical from side to side and front to back??

That’s right Solid Signal fans, our offices are closed today. Our techs are home with their families, our warehouse staff is having a barbecue and as for me, your humble blogger, I’m working… as little as possible. The life of a blogger is a little different from the life of other folks. I’m...

I have to say I'm a little surprised nobody's grabbed this. Here's a list of what these components are selling for. Except for the dishes themselves most of this stuff is 2 years old or less. All located near Lehighton PA. KTI 7.5' mesh dish (Excellent C-band and Ku) - $7-800 C1W-PLL LNBF...

No, I did not. A conical scalar is needed for an offset dish used for C-band. Which is the question he asked.

Did you mean that it will see much more than dish surface, including lots of ground noise?

After a ten year absence, I got Dish installed again this past Saturday. Have a Hopper 3+. Since the install I am unable to watch any on demand title as they freeze in the same place. Oddly though I am able to watch the same on demand titles on Dish Anywhere app on a firestick or cast it from...

That voltage can be checked with the IRD Port on the Sat Buddy and a jumper to the Coax In on the Hopper. For a Hopper it should be showing about 26Volts. For a VIP 722 about 17 Volts but you may have water damage, not at the LNB but in the Cabling/Connections

My 722 lost signal during a thunderstorm (typical Florida cloud cover event) but didn't come back after the storm passed. After multiple reset attempts and checking the point dish screen (all zeros on both 61.5 and 72.7), I discovered that if I leave the point dish screen up and unscrew the coax...

I have three different off-grid solar situations (RV and 2 homes). I originally started this thread as my mountain property had few options for dish placement. The dish only got signal 150' from the cabin. I was having issues with the receiver resetting and I thought it could be due to a voltage...

This is interesting and have been keeping up with the thread. The OP asks if a 12 VDC system can be used to power his SWM. But no mention of the string of components he has a need to power. Comments are going on a tangent. Straight from receiver to the dish? Any switches, etc. in the mix? The...

What you see above you is a coaxial surge protector. It’s this one, in fact. While most coaxial surge protectors are designed for 50-ohm cables with N connectors, this one is designed for home cell booster systems with F connectors. It’s a mysterious piece of equipment, and a lot of folks don’t...

Everyone’s talking about Starlink. And why shouldn’t they? It’s a real change to the way people get internet. It may be the first move toward a future where people don’t need fiber coming to their homes at all. Starlink is… …satellite internet, but not what you think of as satellite internet...

Here’s the basic problem. When satellite TV was first designed, it was designed for things that don’t move. Things like houses and restaurants. Looking back even further, all television was essentially built around the idea that you tended to stay in your local area. Back in the 1950s, driving...

What’s better than a tailgate party? Fire up the barbecue, put on some TV and watch people find you! It’s a perfect way to make new friends. A lot of folks with DISH don’t want to tailgate, they tell me, because setting up the dish is a pain. You have to put the thing up on a tripod and spend...

Of course they get all three tuners. The DPP ports are connected to a Solo or Duo Node mounted right at the dish, so only one coax is needed for the long run to each receiver. Dish hasn't authorized any of my installations. Dish probably doesn't like that I take one of my 1K4's apart and move...