dish problem

[tcsunrunner]

I have a dish 500 that was given to me by the satellite installer. I set it up at my cottage and just bring a reciever from my home to the cottage. It worked great untill i had to upgrade my recievers with a new smart card. I have a different dish at my permanent residence than the 500. Could the new smart card know the difference and block reception? What is the remedy?

 

[Bobby]

It doesn't care....

 

[bross]

You just have to run check switch to set the receiver for the different dish. Should work.

 

[tcsunrunner]

i have run check switch and it comes back saying no switch is detected. Have done it many times.

 

[MikeD-C05]

What kind of receiver do you have and what kind of dish 500 do you have? IF you have a dish 500 legacy style ,you need a dp-21 multi switch to add both 110 and 119 together before it runs to the receiver. It sounds like you need to get a tech out to look at your dish. Add the dish home protection insurance for 5.99 a month and the tech visit will only be 29.99 ,instead of 99.99. You can drop it once the problem is fixed and add it only when needed.

 

[TheKrell]

If it worked before but quit now with a know-good receiver, then I'd say something broke (or went out of alignment) up there. It probably is a legacy twin, which (normally) works fine and has a built-in switch, but it is a one-way-signal device. The receiver can only "see" what legacy switches and LNB's it's connected to by blindly sending commands up the coax and waiting to tune something in. If nothing gets tuned, then you will see the problem you see. Anything could be wrong, including the coax cable or connectors going bad, the integrated LNB assembly, the dish could be out of alignment, or trees grew into your LOS.

 

[tcsunrunner]

it has dp-21 switches but does not see them. Ive switched from one set to the other and nothing works. I have had alignment problems before but it always saw the switches. Now it doesnt. Someone suggested a new dish for $100. I guess the switches are built in. Mine are external and have two of them

 

[TheKrell]

it has dp-21 switches but does not see them. Ive switched from one set to the other and nothing works. I have had alignment problems before but it always saw the switches. Now it doesnt... I guess the switches are built in. Mine are external and have two of them

DishPro (DP) equipment does offer two-way communication, which explains why your receiver "always saw the switches" before. Since you've tried the outputs of both DP-21's and neither shows up, I'd say you have a cabling problem. That is a wag based on the improbability of both DP-21's going bad simultaneously. So... Either your cable is discontiguous (for example the center conductor is bent or broken), or else there's something blocking the power, e.g. a diplexer connected up backwards. You might also have done something stupid, such as cable up the dish antenna lead to the OTA tuner. Happens!