Newbie here, but not new to Dish Network. I already have a 301 receiver but until this morning I had a 300 dish connected to it. I purchased a DishPro 500 LNB and 20" dish off some sleezebag on Ebay (haven't left her a negative YET, but intend to). Anyway, I got the new dish up and then when I went to the point signal screen and did the checkswitch thing, all 4 xxxx's came up at the end for everything. Checked connections, same thing. Can the LNB be defective? I'm not the only Ebayer this person who screwed over. Thanks! (I have another question coming up too).
How can you tell if an LNB is defective?
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Welcome to SatelliteGuys... Do you have the Dish500 on 119/110 Satellites? and are getting a signal? you have to have a signal before you can check switch.
No, I never got a signal, we had the skew and elevation set correctly, but no matter where we had the dish aimed signal stayed on 0. BTW, I only have a "one receiver" hookup.
Also, it's too late to troubleshoot the 500, I already took it down and put the 300 back up, and now my problems are even worse.
Also, it's too late to troubleshoot the 500, I already took it down and put the 300 back up, and now my problems are even worse.
Did you do a switch check without the Satellite in hooked up first? from your other post its too late for that... but could be a faulty Lnb, your 500 dish has the Y adapter on it right? if so you could put your lnb on it and try again (should get stronger signal than the 18"dish)
dfergie said:
No, we had the dish hooked up, but we did the check switch before ever getting a signal. Yes, we had the Y adapter on it correctly.
Maybe after I "cool off" I will attempt this again tomorrow. It's 90 degrees and 100% humidity and sunny right now and I just need to settle down and cool off for awhile.
Ummm... I meant you could put the Lnb from the 18" dish onto the Y adapter and try... dont blame you on the heat and Humidity...
