I have my dish nailed on both 110 and 119 it has never gone out in a rain,snow,etc. When i hooked up my fta receiver i can get about 67 radio channels . But when im watching tv or radio on one transponder i get bored and check whats on the channel 20 channels above it. It is no olnger getting a signal. So i go to the settings and i see the transponder is no longer locked. Well persay that the freqency is 12201, i have to eneter 12200 then 12202 and then i have to enter the orginal frequency to lock it back. Then i exit the menu and watch tv for about 20 minutes, then i see whats on the ohter channle (its a diffrent transponder), and it went back out again. Long story short i have to keep having to renter transponder info, it;s like the receiver keeps changing it 1 mzh or something. I save the data, so it's not getting lost when i exit, what should i do?
Keep having to redo transponders!!!
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Got some money that due to the internal switch on that Dish500 the box is getting confused. Since DBS uses the same sets of frequencies for all its satellites normally an external switch would change the different frequencies. But since its internal and the Dish internal switches work with FTA like crap, its confusing the box.
Do you have any old Dish LNB's around? The ones that are not 2 LNB's in one but the older ones? If you do, then I would switch to that. Once you get that internal switch out that should help.
IN the below pic the one on the right (that is when I made my ghetto D1000 dish) has no switch in it. Do you have any of those around?
Do you have any old Dish LNB's around? The ones that are not 2 LNB's in one but the older ones? If you do, then I would switch to that. Once you get that internal switch out that should help.
IN the below pic the one on the right (that is when I made my ghetto D1000 dish) has no switch in it. Do you have any of those around?
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I have the dish twin legacy. the one on the left in the pic. some of the transponders that keep crapping out, the eb/no keeps changing ex 11.30 -11.20. I will try changing the lbn though.
Your best bet is independent LNBFs for each satellite and a real diseqc switch. The good news is both are available cheaply.
it's possible a DP twin would work better than a legacy twin, since the DishPro switches are some dialect of diseqc whereas the legacy switches are something else entirely. I could be completely wrong though, I've not tried any of the twins.
it's possible a DP twin would work better than a legacy twin, since the DishPro switches are some dialect of diseqc whereas the legacy switches are something else entirely. I could be completely wrong though, I've not tried any of the twins.
pepper I tried about a yr ago when I still had a small dish up, the twin never would work like that for me. I finally found an old legacy lnb and it did work when I hooked up the cable to only the 119 side (no switch at all). Finally gave up on that when I got a dish on amc6 cband for the REAL NASA feed.
The twin will not work reliably on FTA receivers, but the DP version should. Also, avoid DPP (Dish Pro Plus)...
The DP Twin will work fine. I had one on the back of my house (on an old dish500 dish) that I recommissioned for music.. It worked fine as diseqc ports 1 & 2, except that the trees were growing too close. I went back to using a "real" dish and lnb 
Lumpkin, are you sure it was a twin? There have been many examples of these not being able to be used on FTA receivers. Maybe it depends on the receiver?
EDIT: Sorry, just saw that you were using the DP twin. There is an older twin (non-DP) that was causing issues... The DPs will work perfectly
EDIT: Sorry, just saw that you were using the DP twin. There is an older twin (non-DP) that was causing issues... The DPs will work perfectly
I goit it al to work, but i think i need new firmware on the reciver because i canot asisgan a diseq port to each sta, i have to go into a menu a change in manaually
If i go to anteena setpu and go to 110 and hit port a and then go to 119 and hit port b and then flip back to 110 it will still be port b it is like i can only switch ports for the whole antenna im atr school right now so i cant get to my box but i will try to have two antennas and see if i can asiaghn a port to each antenna instead of each sat.
the best thing to do is go into antenna setup and change the deiseqc on one satllite (119) to what it should be and hit exit to save it. Then go back in and do 110 and save that also
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