Dish 500 upgrade problems

[pauli20000]

Hello,

I am doing a dish 500 for my grandmother. I got the dish up and all connected. I ran check switch everything was ok. Checked all my setting 250, 127 skew, 25 elev. I could not get any signal. This is a dish pro twin, with a dp301. What am I doing wrong.

Pauli20000 ?

 

[Guest]

When you say "everything was ok." during your run of a check switch, what exactly do you mean? From your question, you shouldn't receive an OK if you do not receive at least Channel 101 after properly installing a Dish 500DP unit with a DP301. The check switch SHOULD comeback with 110 and 119 orbitals with polarity ALL and Device SGL.

 

[Guest]

I ran check switch, it said in the details something like dp twin connected, connection good, no signal present.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Is your mast level?

Did you rotate the dish on the mast to try finding the signal?

Putting in a dish like that is a 2 person job.

One to move the Dish and the second to watching the signal meter on the Dish and yelling when you find something.

 

[pauli20000]

I did rotate the dish to try to get a signal, got nothing. I did every from dish elevation to a new cable just in case.I done a few other dish 500 upgrades including my own and never had this type of problem, this was my first attempt with a dishpro lbnf.

 

[TheaterWizard]

Double check to make sure the original post is still perfectly level in both directions, the Dish 500 is much less forgiving. Once its level use a magnetic compass to find a reference point and shoot for that you should have some kind of signal. Also since you already ran a check switch you may need to align with an old lnb first using the 119 side of the yoke as the switch may be giving false readings.

 

[pauli20000]

thanks for the help, all fixed

Thanks for all the help, it was a mast problem.


pauli20000 D

 

[TheaterWizard]

Re: thanks for the help, all fixed

Thanks for all the help, it was a mast problem.


pauli20000

glad all is well again