Well, I just had a very unusual experience with my Dish Network installation.
Here's my setup: 3 VIP 211's, 1 VIP 211k and one VIP722k, DPP44 switch with power inserter on port 1 and a Dish 1000 and a side dish 500 half of it looks at 61.5.
I tried to watch a recording done an hour or so ago on channel 112 HGTV, but the picture was pixellating so badly that even the audio was often garbled, picture was heavily macro blocking, green patched horrible. On the Point Dish screen I looked at all the TPs on all three satellites and they were mostly abnormally low, many in the low 20's a few looked normal in the 50's or 60's but 129 and 110 were both low, 119 TP 21 looked OK.
So, I checked my signal level on 112 off the 129 satellite - it was 20-25 and flopping around a bit. Oh dear, did yesterdays winds misalign my dish that has been so stable for over 3 years.
I checked one of my 211's, it was seeing the same channel at about 36, not pixellating but lower than normal.
I had moved my cables around a bit this afternoon doing some house cleaning, so I checked that I had not created any choke loops - that was OK.
By happenstance I looked at the power supply for the DPP44 and reached over and unplugged it. The receiver was on the Point Dish screen where it was reading 25 and a few seconds after I unplugged the power supply the signal dropped to 0. I plugged the power supply back up and nothing happened on the Point Dish sreen, still read 0, so I dropped from 129 TP 17 to 129 TP 16, still 0 but I believe this is a spot beam somewhere else. I went back to 129 TP 17 and the TP said "Locked - Echostar 129 West and the signal jumped to a solid 60 and held there.
I checked the signal on my 211 which had been 36 and it says 60 now also (after bumping it up and down one TP to re lock the transponder).
129 TP21 now reads 73, 61.5 TP21 reads 67, 110 TP 21 reads 67 and 119 TP 21 reads 78.
Who would have thought that powering off and on the power supply to the DPP44 would make that much difference in the signal?
I have had a few issues with my DPP44 in the past, where I had to disconnect everything from it for 30 minutes to reset it to get certain channels back, maybe in the futurre I'll just pull the power plug and see if that fixes it.
Here's my setup: 3 VIP 211's, 1 VIP 211k and one VIP722k, DPP44 switch with power inserter on port 1 and a Dish 1000 and a side dish 500 half of it looks at 61.5.
I tried to watch a recording done an hour or so ago on channel 112 HGTV, but the picture was pixellating so badly that even the audio was often garbled, picture was heavily macro blocking, green patched horrible. On the Point Dish screen I looked at all the TPs on all three satellites and they were mostly abnormally low, many in the low 20's a few looked normal in the 50's or 60's but 129 and 110 were both low, 119 TP 21 looked OK.
So, I checked my signal level on 112 off the 129 satellite - it was 20-25 and flopping around a bit. Oh dear, did yesterdays winds misalign my dish that has been so stable for over 3 years.
I checked one of my 211's, it was seeing the same channel at about 36, not pixellating but lower than normal.
I had moved my cables around a bit this afternoon doing some house cleaning, so I checked that I had not created any choke loops - that was OK.
By happenstance I looked at the power supply for the DPP44 and reached over and unplugged it. The receiver was on the Point Dish screen where it was reading 25 and a few seconds after I unplugged the power supply the signal dropped to 0. I plugged the power supply back up and nothing happened on the Point Dish sreen, still read 0, so I dropped from 129 TP 17 to 129 TP 16, still 0 but I believe this is a spot beam somewhere else. I went back to 129 TP 17 and the TP said "Locked - Echostar 129 West and the signal jumped to a solid 60 and held there.
I checked the signal on my 211 which had been 36 and it says 60 now also (after bumping it up and down one TP to re lock the transponder).
129 TP21 now reads 73, 61.5 TP21 reads 67, 110 TP 21 reads 67 and 119 TP 21 reads 78.
Who would have thought that powering off and on the power supply to the DPP44 would make that much difference in the signal?
I have had a few issues with my DPP44 in the past, where I had to disconnect everything from it for 30 minutes to reset it to get certain channels back, maybe in the futurre I'll just pull the power plug and see if that fixes it.
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