SIGNAL LOST?

[ranger56]

I recently installed a system with a Coship 2300 receiver. It's only been a week, but it has been working fine. Last night I got numerous SIGNAL LOST situations, then signal would return. I was using a channel on Transponder 18. I checked signal level and it was low and flucuating. I checked Transponder 17 which is the strongest and it was 82/98 and stable. I expect the situation was just weather , but it did not effect channels on Transponder 17. Do I need to FINE TUNE a little better or is this just something that can not be controlled? When I first acquired the levels were pretty good, just not sure if this was just weather or needing to tune better.

[bobkat]

It is probably just the bad weather. Having said that, if you check all the transponders and notice the signal is quite a bit lower on the alternate polarity transponders -- in other words, if all the HORIZONTAL polarity transponders are good but the VERTICAL ones suck (or vice versa) then I would tweak the dish alignement.

kat