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    Will a bigger dish boost my Spotbeam signal?

    Thanks to several of you who have pretty much convinced me that a one meter dish will solve my marginal spot beam intensity problem. I centered on the transponder 3 spot beam when it was running around 39 and it went up to 46 -- just under locking in. Still, I'd like to give the one-meter...
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    spot beam reception

    Just returned to the L.A. area. Transponders 1 and 3 show signal strength of 125 each. That's the highest I remember either of them being. No wonder I was locking in to both around midnight last night. DISH Network must have done something recently. Oliver
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    spot beam reception

    It is 1:45 am. Transponder 1 signal strength is down to 35, just on the verge of showing 0 signal strength (it blinks on and off) and transponder 3 is down to 45 but still locking in. I don't know what the signal strength units are, but they don't seem to be dB. I did an experiment a...
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    spot beam reception

    If I'm reading the TV Market Maps correctly (from http://ekb.dbstalk.com/19 ), our mountain cabin is south of the northern extremity of the L.A. market in Inyo county, but slightly west of the western extremity. Mono county is above that and is a part of the Reno/Carson City market. I can...
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    spot beam reception

    To SmityWhity: Just looked at the spot beams for the U.S. The L.A. spot beam seems to cover Inyo County up the eastern watershed of the Sierra Nevadas. We're on the western watershed, nowhere near the northern extremity as shown on the map. Could that be why the spot beam for Transponder 1...
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    spot beam reception

    Re: Spot beam reception. To SmityWhity: Transponder and spot beam reception in L.A. is good, summer, winter, night and day. America's Top 60, to which we subscribe, comes in fine. That's our home and mailing address for Dish Network bills. At our mountain cabin, north of Fresno toward...
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    spot beam reception

    To masterdeals I ought to have repled that I as far as I know, I'm in the LA DMA. We live in Lakewood, CA. Oliver
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    spot beam reception

    To rdinkel, who posted that "They (DISH Network) do not permit moving receivers from your primary address," when I first subscribed to DISH Network I posed that specific issue on several occasions. Unanimously the representatives said that there was no problem moving my decoder box to our...
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    spot beam reception

    I'm a new member to SatelliteGuys, so if this matter has been covered, please direct me to an appropriate link. I'm on the fringe of the Los Angeles local channel spot beam. During the summer transponder 3 comes in starting around 6pm and transponder 1 never comes in. During the winter...