Problem Relocating My Dish

ACHILLES16 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-14-2006, 02:19 PM

I Have a weird problem, I moved and tried to Install my Direct TV Dish, What I'm Getting is About 80% Signal, only on the EVEN Number Transponders, And On The ODD transponders I Have 0, I never had this problem, I called a friend who installs dishes and could not do it either, I changed LNB's And i switched receivers, and it's the same thing, Can Someone Help me Thank You..

ACHILLES16 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-29-2006, 09:57 AM

Thanks, I found a guy with a Satellite Signal Meter, And we found Out The Dish was not Locked in to the right Satellite, We had to adjust it and lock the signal. thanks..

abuelo jack · #3 (**permalink**) 07-16-2006, 03:39 PM

Sounds similar to my problem. I just moved my dual-LNB DirecTV dish, and now I get plenty of signal on odd-numbered transponders, nothing on even-numbered transponders, on signal channel 2 only. Signal channel 1 is fine on both odd and even transponders. I hope it's just a dish pointing problem.

-- Jack in DC

abuelo jack · #4 (**permalink**) 07-17-2006, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by abuelo jack

Sounds similar to my problem. I just moved my dual-LNB DirecTV dish, and now I get plenty of signal on odd-numbered transponders, nothing on even-numbered transponders, on signal channel 2 only. Signal channel 1 is fine on both odd and even transponders. I hope it's just a dish pointing problem.

-- Jack in DC

Now I think it's an LNB problem, and temperature-sensitive. Everything was OK this morning, but at midday, with the temperature on the roof reaching very high levels, the even-numbered transponders on receiver two went out again. Evidently the second head isn't switching between odd and even transponders, and that failure might be coming about only when the head is hot. It's plenty hot up there today.

-- Jack

wejones · #5 (**permalink**) 07-22-2006, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by abuelo jack

Now I think it's an LNB problem, and temperature-sensitive. Everything was OK this morning, but at midday, with the temperature on the roof reaching very high levels, the even-numbered transponders on receiver two went out again. Evidently the second head isn't switching between odd and even transponders, and that failure might be coming about only when the head is hot. It's plenty hot up there today.

-- Jack

I'm curious. When you stop getting channels of one polarity, what happens if you switch channels (polarity) on the other receiver? I just had a DC power failure on one of my receivers, and I noticed that even though the receiver wasn't providing any power, that I was still getting reception on whatever polarity I had my #1 receiver on. Ie If I tuned to CNN on receiver #1, then I could watch CNN or any other channel of the same polarity on receiver #2, but I could not watch anything on the other polarity. However, if I switched receiver #1 to the other polarity, the I was receiving everything on the other polarity only on receiver #2.

I guess that what I'm suggesting is that your problem might not be getting better then going out again, but might be always bad, and you are just able to view that polarity due to what you have your other receiver set to..... Just a possibility.