New install problems

Barry Erick

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Had dish installed today. Superdish for 105 and 110 with a seperate dish on 119 due to line of sight.

110 Odd are bad. Here are the sig levels on some:

110-8 - 10
110- 9 - 48
110-10 - 48
110-11 - 0
110-12 - 93
110-13 - 0
110-14 - 90
110-15 - 0
110-16 - 89
110-17 - 0 (where my HD package is,,,,)
110-18 - 89
110-19 - 39
110-20 - 85
110-21 - 49
110-22 - 97
110-23 - 48


105 - 1 - 73
105 - 2 - 75
105 - 3 - 75
105- 4 - 76
105-5 - 73
105 -6 - 75
105-7 - 76
105-8 - 75
105-9 - 78
105-10 - 82
105-11 - 77

119 - different dish pointing to only 119
119 - 1 - 116
119 - 2 - 99
119 - 3 - 112
119 - 4 - 97

And so on. As you can see, for certain transponders, the signals stink. I think the installer peaked on110 - 20, or at least that was the transponder he had up when he showed me the signal. Could the skew be tweaked to get a tradeoff? I did this on DirecTV once to peak a signal. But how bad these are startles me. And the odds are the normal frequency signals with the evens being the higher stacked frequencies, so that would eliminate connections, I would think.

The installer will be here in the morning to change out a receiver he thought was bad, but his assistant hooked up the wrong outputs of the 522 to the sets and it works fine now.
 
I agree with SimpleSimon, have him swap out the LNB and then check signal strength on transponder 11 before you let him leave.
 
I talked to dish and they want him to touch skew first, but that would probably hurt 0105 which I need. Allof this should not take more than an hour as I have to get to work at a TV station.
 
Actually, there's 2 different skews to deal with on a SuperDish.

1. The elevation difference between the 2 LNBs
2. The angle of the linear polarization FSS LNB.
 
The installer just left. He replaced the lnb and all is fine. 110 has evens from 100-125 and odds from 97 to 105. 105 bird is also great.
 
Just a quick question Barry, was it his idea to swaphe LNB or did you have to recommend that he do so? - Just curious.
 
Wobbie,
I told him that Dish suggested a bad aim (which I did not agree with, nor did he) or a bad LNB. He first checked the aim, which he said was excellent on his meter. They then put new ends on and changed the switch. Then he called his boss saying what he did and that I said most suggested a bad lnb. Well, his boss said to change it. He did and while I was checking messages, the office tv came up with audio. Since one channel affected was Hallmark, we had it on that. We then did the signal checks and with the 125 I had on some, he remarked that the highest at their office is 124.

He even got 119 in with a 70, but since I already had a dish on the property line (a tree mount since Direct's first use of 119) that I had a Dish Pro on (used it for the odd channels and a neighbors dish for the evens on Direct the last few weeks while waiting), he tried that. Since I got over 100 on everything with it, it was left in the system. We figure the Superdish is hitting the bare-leafed trees and in spring would just go away.
 

No NFL Sunday Ticket on DISH

Need much help please!

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