No, not a stupid question: can a 311 "see" anything on 72.7 ?

[Iceberg]

By the way, I also tried with the motorized dish and the Coolsat 7100. I didn't have any better luck, I think it is probably the older type of tuner like the 301 and the other old dish legacy receivers.

The Coolsat 7100 can only see DVB signals...not Turbo 8PSK so when they swapped 72W out I removed that sat from my list on the Coolsat

[Pepper]

so "probably" I could have found it, given enough time and patience.

moot point, the installer is coming on Sunday to swap me to a 1000.4 - I'll just wait till that's done, connect the 311 to it and run the test myself.

By the way, as long as I've been here I should have known this belongs in the technical discussions area, somebody please move it.

[Pepper]

OK, got my answer. I would never have been successful.

Connected to a 1K.4 the 311 sees 77, "Conn" where 72.7 should be, 61.5, and whatever is connected to the LNB-IN port (in my case 110). Hmm. So what's the difference between 72 and 77 then. Time to take a close look at the tables I guess.

[Pepper]

It appears that transponder 29 is the only one a 311 can "see" on 77. I also get a fairly large list of channels, but I know that most of them are MPEG-4, besides the receiver is deactivated so most are red and the smartcard is obsolete so obviously I cannot view anything.

So a 311 could be used in a pinch to aim a dish at 77, however 72 is apparently out of the question.

[digiblur]

It appears that transponder 29 is the only one a 311 can "see" on 77. I also get a fairly large list of channels, but I know that most of them are MPEG-4, besides the receiver is deactivated so most are red and the smartcard is obsolete so obviously I cannot view anything.

So a 311 could be used in a pinch to aim a dish at 77, however 72 is apparently out of the question.

Interesting...apparently the 311 doesn't like the MPEG4 flags attached to the channels on those TP's. I figured the point dish screen would only care about the NIT.

[delta_charlie]

Hi all, I played around this past weekend setting up a dish 500 on 61.5, 72.7, 77 and finally 129 and learned a few tricks that might help others. The first thing you want to do is buy one of those cheap squeal satellite meters from one of the sponsors at the top of this page. I found the audio meter on my VIP 222 to be very slow and unresponsive so the first thing to do is use the squeal meter to peak the dish on the satellite. Now wait to the receiver to lock and start sounding the audio meter. After you confirm the receiver is on the correct satellite go back out to the dish and peak it slowly using the receiver audio meter. I found if I crank up the volume on the TV I was able to hear it on the other side of the house so if you dish is about 100 feet or less from the TV you should be able to leave the HD receiver inside the house and hooked up - just crank up the volume and open a window! On my set-up it was easy to separate the main dish from the wing at the grounding block so that's what I did. I hooked up just the wing dish and ran a check switch so the receiver was only looking at the one dish. I found this less confusing but your mileage may vary. It's a good thing to be able to peak the dishes yourself as it can be handy if a storm blows the dish off of alignment and you might want to get it back up to watch the news or sports and don't want to wait for an installer to come out. Hope this helps, DC

[Pepper]

Those are great tips for sure.

Sure would be nice if dish would add those 99xx channels to 72 and 77 in good old MPEG-2 FTA for us tinkerers.