Lately, the major problem for many of the company's field techs is they use the sat buddy's to align the dish and dp+ doesn't read correctly with the sat buddy. I haven't checked the brick (channel master) or any other meter, but the sat buddy is widely used and you have to peak with a regular twin, dual, quad, whatever as long as it is not dp+. dp+ will tell you that you are peak in even with a 4-point test on the dish. but if you swap the dp+ lnb after peaking and throw a regular lnb on it will say you are off. After a lot of investigation/experimenting around, the most accurate way to align the dish is by using a regular lnb as i just mentioned and by peaking in both 119 and 110. 4-point tests on both, rise and fall on both. if you can't rise and fall on both 119 and 110, then your skew is off a little. I can't tell you how many dishes i re-peak time after time because "oh the installer just didn't have that extra 20 seconds of time to do it right". I am amazed everyone I know at DISH downplays signal as being important. they're more concerned with grounding, and "oh it's hitting 80 good enough" well excuse me, grounding is important yes, but it doesn't keep a customer. signal does and that is our business. so peak it in!!!!!
p.s. all single tuner receivers except the 811 should read anywhere from 100-120. 811 usually 95-110. All dual tuner receivers should be in the range of 90-100. Yes you can hit 100 on a dual tuner box even with a separator. these signals i pulled off transponders 11-12 as mentioned is previous posts. and the excuse about long line runs and connectors, diplexors, etc... is b.s. I ran 300 feet on DP on a 301 and hit 115 with no amplifier.
.............and it's buried in the ground!
