Problem w/5 LNB dish and local HD reception

[chiliiman]

I have a continual issue of losing HD locals due to low signal strength. On the 103 Satellite I always register 75-90 on transformers 6 and 7 but at it's maximum I've only obtained 50-60 on transformers 14 and 15, which carry my local HD's.

The local channels seem to go out A LOT with this dish. I have a lake behind the house and the wind just whips up on the dish and moves it around every once and a while. Once again I am losing the local HD's and the signal strength is in the low 20's. I was messing around with the dish today to check the aligment and on a whim unpluged the two power wires for the side LNB's. The signal strength on the of transformers 6 and 9 immediatley shot from 21 to almost 70!! But one of the LNB's I unplugged receives the other HD channels from the 119 satellite. So I can watch one set or the other of channels but not both at this point. I think I can get them both to work but it will take some very fine adjusting.

So what's going on here? Do I have a bad LNB set or dish? Is this for some unknown reason actually normal for the signal to shoot up when the other LNB is unplugged?

Thanks

Randy

 

[dragon002]

there are at least two versions of the at9 that ive seen. one uses coax jumpers and one has "push-on" thin jumpers, which do you have?

 

[directvfreak]

Transponders by the way... Not transformers

 

[chiliiman]

there are at least two versions of the at9 that ive seen. one uses coax jumpers and one has "push-on" thin jumpers, which do you have?

These are the thin push on jumpers.

Just spent over an hour realigning the dish. Same problem.

I now have all the satellites in the 75-85 range but transponder 7 and 15 of satellite 103 are in the low 20's. As soon as I pull the jumper for the 119 sat both those transponders jump to near 70.

This has to be a bad lnb right?

 

[dragon002]

i do believe you are correct.

 

[Recall]

Which satellite is NY, NY HD locals on? I am getting on 103 (network 14) TP 7,49% and on TP 14, 59%. On satellite 103 (network 15) I get no signal rest of satellite is fine. 101,110,119.

Please advise,
Thanks

 

[chiliiman]

Which satellite is NY, NY HD locals on? I am getting on 103 (network 14) TP 7,49% and on TP 14, 59%. On satellite 103 (network 15) I get no signal rest of satellite is fine. 101,110,119.

Please advise,
Thanks

I don't know about New York but the D.C. area is on transponder 15 on the 103 Sat.