Ticked about signal strength !!!

[sprintcarcrazy]

I have a dish 1000.2, 110, 119,129 and a seperate dish at 61.5. I am in central MO and have clear line of site to the south and fair line of site to 61.5, neighbors tree may be causing an issue.

No problems till last upgrade on signal strength via software, then I have started loosing signal if a cloud goes by.

I re-peaked the dishes tonight and all I could get was about 74 on 119, about 68 on 110 and 45-50 on 129 and bout 60 on 61.5.

Always had 90-104 percent with a 500...

I have considering going to seperate dishes for 110/119 and 129. And move 61.5 back further on the deck to clear the tree next door better.

Has this new software upgrades really changed things that much ?

I really don't understand why I am getting such poor signal strength now !

 

[webbydude]

It's all relative.

The new signal strength meter is approximately 35 points weaker than the "old" one. If you're getting 74/68 on the 119/110 then IMO that is incredibly good (I'm assuming you have a dual-tuner).

 

[Hall]

The updated software only changed the number. Your signal itself did NOT change.

 

[KKlare]

I found I was getting satellite search message for 61.5. I had approximately peaked my Dish 1000 but had not touched the 61.5 Dish 500. I pushed on it a little using TP 11 and it perked up from low 30's. Found the nominally tight nuts had loosened and scraped down in elevation 5 deg or more. Loosened and adjusted those and was then getting low-to-mid 50's. The azimuth nuts were less than tight but I'll adjust that with less wind and warmer.

The other transponders range from high 40's to high 70's, especially good on TP 12, why? (At one time, the canonical TP's were 11 and 12 to get an odd and and even. Does not apply to 129.)

The 722/DPP44 takes some from 61.5 and some from 129. Is there rhyme or reason? Especially with 61.5 now a lot higher than the often 30-ish 129 for TP27 of Cinemax, although I think 61.5 TP22 is low, too. Will recheck that and see if I can get a point or more on 129....
-Ken

 

[dpitch2]

The only question I have is why??? I realize that the only change is in the signal strength scale but what was the reasoning behind this change?

 

[Andrewwski]

I think some tuners were "calibrated" different than others...essentially you could not compare signal strength between two different models because they did not use the same scale.

 

[Liquidforce88]

The only question I have is why???

If we only knew the answer......

 

[rcdallas]

If they would make the calibrations so that it would just be a flat 100/100, instead of 70/125 that'd be ideal, can't see a purpose of it having such a large scale when it won't go that high.

311's were nice - 125/125 bling bling!