OK, now I understand why my signal strength bar is independent of dish pointing. This indicator is just a measure of the LNB-to-STB connection and has nothing to do with the bird-to-LNB link. Still though I can't get past zero quality (this is the actual measure of bird-to-LNB link). All I know is that the LNB-to-STB connection is pretty good ....... around 75%. I just can't get any quality more than zero, after hours of fruitless pointing attempts. So here's my current approach. I try manually switching the STB-to-LNB cable between a working stationary
Dish 500 dish and my new Fortec 90cm dish.
With my STB connected to a nearby stationary Dish 500 dish with a DishPro LNB I'm getting good signal strength, great quality and the expected channels are working fine on the Echo 7 and Echo 8.9 birds at 110W and 119W. Nineteen of the 21 TP have 90% quality (the other two are zero). What I do next is to disconnect (power off of course) the DishPro LNB and instead, using the same RG-6 cable, make a DIRECT STB-to-LNB (new
Invacom QPH031) on a new Fortec 90cm dish nearby. I point the Fortec as close as I can to the same working stationary Dish 500 pointing. Then, on my STB's
installation-antenna page, I set the LNB type to STANDARD and LO=11250. The signal strength is about 75% but the quality is still zero on all the TPs. Finally I try moving the Fortec slowly east and west of the stationary Dish 500 dish pointing and also changing the Fortec elevation up and down as well. The quality never gets above zero. the
Sadoun tech said to use LO=10750 for ALL birds (which I know is wrong for circular birds) but I tried this anyway with no success.
The Invacom QPH031 is supposed to be a good LNB, and mine is brand new. But other than the good LNB-to-STB connection indication, it sure looks to me like this LNB is dead. I have worn off the Fortec's dish paint slewing back and forth and up and down trying to get an above zero quality indication.
I'm out of ideas. HELP!
