Transponder questions

[bantonb]

I have been a Dish Network customer for the last 6 years but moved to Costa Rica 4 years ago. I brought down my receiver and got a 2.4 meter dish installed and pay my bill online. I get only the 119 which is fine for me. Some of the odd transponders go out during the day but I am not at home so it doesn't bother me.

However, the last 2 weeks or so, all the odd transponders have been going out at around 12:30 am and coming back around 4am. Then it would go out as normal during the day again.

Does anyone know why it would go out around 12am? Is Dish Network moving the 119 satellite?

 

[Jim5506]

May be a heat related problem with you lnb.

Loss of odd transponders means the lnb is not responding to the voltage change that switches the lnb from odd to even. It's either the lnb or the receiver.

 

[bantonb]

May be a heat related problem with you lnb.

Loss of odd transponders means the lnb is not responding to the voltage change that switches the lnb from odd to even. It's either the lnb or the receiver.

Why would it be heat when it goes out at 1 AM?

 

[Jim5506]

Misread start time as 12pm, but loss of odd transponders still has same basic cause, no switching voltage or lnb not responding to switching voltage.

 

[nelson61]

I have been a Dish Network customer for the last 6 years but moved to Costa Rica 4 years ago. I brought down my receiver and got a 2.4 meter dish installed and pay my bill online. I get only the 119 which is fine for me. Some of the odd transponders go out during the day but I am not at home so it doesn't bother me.

However, the last 2 weeks or so, all the odd transponders have been going out at around 12:30 am and coming back around 4am. Then it would go out as normal during the day again.

Does anyone know why it would go out around 12am? Is Dish Network moving the 119 satellite?

It is not unusual at all for various transponders, even, odd or unique ones to lose signal at various times of the day in the "fringe". All transponders are not equal (their focal point on the satellite downbeam antenna varies) and you will see significant changes in signal between transponders The satellite is continously drifting around in a figure 8 pattern in a "box" with dimensions of about 0.1 degrees on a side. The bigger the antenna, the move sensitive reception is to this movement. You want to be peaked when the satellite is in the center of the box. Could be that a minor tweek will eliminate your problem. All part of living close to the equator.

 

[Smith P.]

2.4 m should have very narrow main lobe - yeah, really - try to slightly adjust it.