Ok, here is a quick rundown of what I have going on. I currently have a Slimline dish with a SL5-LNB (Non swm) mounted at my house. I have two H23/600 HD Receivers that work flawlessly. I recently purchased a cabin that is about 2 hours north of my home. The neighboring cabin to me (about 1 mile down the road) was recently purchased by someone new and they switched over from Directv to Dish Network. The new owners had placed the Directv dish out by the road with the trash, so I stopped and picked it up. Appearance wise I thought i was the same exact thing that I had at home. I was thinking that I would be able to mount the dish, bring my H23/600 Receiver with me and everything would be fine and dandy.
Come to find out the dish that I have at the Cabin is a Slimline dish with a SL5-SWM. I quickly found out that I needed a power inserter and was able to obtain one from a local installing company. I didnt want to mount my dish on my room so I just threw a pole in my truck from home to use. When I arrived at th Cabin I realized that the pole I have is for a smaller dish (1.65" rather than 2" outside diameter) I thought I would still be able to use this pole and just install some shims on 4 sides before tightening the dish down. After 2 hours of trying to point the dish I havent been able to get anything other than 0 for my satellite signal. My Receiver seems to automaticaly recognize that it is on an SWM Dish (Option 18) and that it has a SWM rather than a multiswitch - this makes me believe that I have the wiring all done correctly and am just having issues pointing the dish.
As I stated earlier, the dish came from 1 mile down the road so I did not adjust any of the settings on it at all. All of them are right on for what directv recommends for my zip code. How difficult is it to point the dish? I have some trees that are about 75-100yards away but dont appear to be interfering at all. Is is absolutely vital that the pole be 100% level? If so, then I am assuming that I will have much better luck by switching to a 2" outisde diameter pole. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. I am quite mechanically iclined but know VERY little about satellite pointing/dishes/etc. Thanks.
Come to find out the dish that I have at the Cabin is a Slimline dish with a SL5-SWM. I quickly found out that I needed a power inserter and was able to obtain one from a local installing company. I didnt want to mount my dish on my room so I just threw a pole in my truck from home to use. When I arrived at th Cabin I realized that the pole I have is for a smaller dish (1.65" rather than 2" outside diameter) I thought I would still be able to use this pole and just install some shims on 4 sides before tightening the dish down. After 2 hours of trying to point the dish I havent been able to get anything other than 0 for my satellite signal. My Receiver seems to automaticaly recognize that it is on an SWM Dish (Option 18) and that it has a SWM rather than a multiswitch - this makes me believe that I have the wiring all done correctly and am just having issues pointing the dish.
As I stated earlier, the dish came from 1 mile down the road so I did not adjust any of the settings on it at all. All of them are right on for what directv recommends for my zip code. How difficult is it to point the dish? I have some trees that are about 75-100yards away but dont appear to be interfering at all. Is is absolutely vital that the pole be 100% level? If so, then I am assuming that I will have much better luck by switching to a 2" outisde diameter pole. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. I am quite mechanically iclined but know VERY little about satellite pointing/dishes/etc. Thanks.
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