I've had the dish installed here at my new house for about 6 months now, and recently i was unable to get any HD channels, even the local ones, so I went to my signal levels and saw that on 99(a) and 99(b), as well as 103(a) and 103(b), I have 0's across the board. These used to come in just fine, in fact I had 80-90 signal strength. Assuming it was new growth, i went out and cut down all of the vegetation that looked like it might be in the way, with no luck. I re-peaked the dish using my Accutrac 22, peaking to 101 on the coarse alignment, peaking to 119 on the tilt, then peaking again on 101 for the fine tuning on elevation and azimuth dither (using the half clockwise/counterclockwise method). Again, all according to the install guide. No luck there either. im still sitting at 0's on the Ka beams.
So, I decided to completely remount the dish. Did so, in a similar location but in a better direct line of sight to the sky in my opinion. Got it all up, leveled, mast extended, dish mounted, re-coarse aligned, re-fine tuned, came down to check signal strength and I am able to get a few channels in HD, like TNT, ESPN, etc. But not any of the locals. And 103(a/b) and 99(a/b) are all sitting at zero.
I live in San Diego, so I know I should be getting spot beams on 103(a), as thats where my local HD programs come from.
I am stumped.
101, 110, and 119 are all very good. the signals are peaked, just as you would expect them to be after a proper re-peaking.
Signal levels:
101
1-8: 94 94 94 0 94 97 93 97
9-16: 94 95 94 0 94 98 93 98
17-24: 87 100 88 0 94 98 94 98
25-32: 94 0 90 100 95 98 95 100
110
8: 95
10: 95
12:95
119
22-24: 0 0 94
25-32: 91 95 94 94 0 94 0 95
99(a)
1-8: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9-14: 0 0 0 0 0 0
99(b)
All 0
103(a)
All 0
103(b)
All 0
Any ideas?
So, I decided to completely remount the dish. Did so, in a similar location but in a better direct line of sight to the sky in my opinion. Got it all up, leveled, mast extended, dish mounted, re-coarse aligned, re-fine tuned, came down to check signal strength and I am able to get a few channels in HD, like TNT, ESPN, etc. But not any of the locals. And 103(a/b) and 99(a/b) are all sitting at zero.
I live in San Diego, so I know I should be getting spot beams on 103(a), as thats where my local HD programs come from.
I am stumped.
101, 110, and 119 are all very good. the signals are peaked, just as you would expect them to be after a proper re-peaking.
Signal levels:
101
1-8: 94 94 94 0 94 97 93 97
9-16: 94 95 94 0 94 98 93 98
17-24: 87 100 88 0 94 98 94 98
25-32: 94 0 90 100 95 98 95 100
110
8: 95
10: 95
12:95
119
22-24: 0 0 94
25-32: 91 95 94 94 0 94 0 95
99(a)
1-8: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9-14: 0 0 0 0 0 0
99(b)
All 0
103(a)
All 0
103(b)
All 0
Any ideas?
