Install help please!

[caterpa]

I recently purchased d* eqipment and in an effort to reduce the costs to amke this more platable for my wife, I choose to do a self-install.

I have a Phase III dish, HD Tivo, SD Tivo and standard unit(5 outputs necessary of course) I also have a TERK 5x8 multi switch. In additon, I have a Square shooter OTA antenna connected to the multiswitch and mounted on the roof.

I believe I have it all connected correctly but obviously I don't. I tried to aim the dish this afternoon and couldn't acquire any of this sats and wonder about dish position but when I tried to get the antenna to pick up signals that wasn't working either. Something I am missing here?

I wonder about the multiswitch. I plan tomorrow to hook up the sat and receiver directly bypassing the switch to see if that helps. Any other ideas?

I tried all receivers and none can acquire a signal even with changing the dish position. I thought that would help me sort out if one of the sets of cable were bad or the cables connected wrong.

Help! I am not making my wife happy with all thjis She told me today that if this is how D* is going to be she wants to send the equipment back. I want my Sunday Ticket and HDTV!

 

[fkostyn]

Use www.antennaweb.org to set the correct direction on the antenna.

When I setup my Phase 3 dish - it did take me a little while to get it "fully" tweaked to get a good signal (now I constantly get 95+).

 

[022266]

Is it a Cascadable Multi switch... If not that will be your problem, The triple LNB has a Multi built in and it becomes confused.

Other than that I would say your allignment is off.

Post what your zip code is or City, ST ( or where your at )

Good Luck

 

[boba]

You might call your equipment supplier and see if your are still eligible for the FREE install that is part of the promotion for new customers.

 

[wobbie]

Check to make sure that you have power running to the multi-switch. No power, no signal

 

[caterpa]

Thanks everyone for the help. I figured out the problem, I had the antenna input and one of the satellite inputs into the multiswitch reversed. I put the antenna cable into the correct input in the multiswitch and now all is well!

I figured it out by bypassing the multiswitch. Once I determined that antenna and dish were working I traced the problem back to the grounding blocks where I had mispositioned the cables.

Thanks again.