Recent content by Fuzzbutt

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    YOUTUBE APP COMING TO HOPPER 3

    Now to figure out an easy way to get them to upgrade my old hopper. Plus not losing all of my recordings and timers. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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    New 1000.2 install in place of dish 500 having issues.

    Well after an hour or so of wiggling it I got 119 & 129 reasonable signal quality. 110 escaped me but we weren't too concerned for now. I'm back home 3 hours away so there isn't anything I can do from here now. I would like to thank the guys who responded. I think it helped. I wish Dish would...
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    New 1000.2 install in place of dish 500 having issues.

    More tweaking I have 129 on port 1 with 20 strength on ts21. 119 on port 2 with 57 on ts19. This thing needs thumb screws to adjust things. Very sensitive.
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    New 1000.2 install in place of dish 500 having issues.

    Right west 9 degrees. I tried that and moved the elevation to 28.5. Getting nothing at all. Maybe I'm going off of the wrong places or the bracket I have is no good. It isn't the same bracket that is on the directions I have but a simple design like the one in my 500. Maybe it needs to point...
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    New 1000.2 install in place of dish 500 having issues.

    Great thanks for the quick responses. I'll try and figure out the 9 degrees east tomorrow. I was turning it easterly but might not have gone far enough. Hard to do when the phone's compass and my old boy scout compass both have interference readings within a few feet of the dish. How do you...
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    New 1000.2 install in place of dish 500 having issues.

    Hello, Lots of info here and I've learned a lot over the past years reading the posts. Today I've killed pretty much the entire day trying to get a VIP722 at my parents part-time vacation home to work with a 1000.2WA dish. I've tried every combination of settings from the install guide and...