Recent content by Mattm1184

Thank you for the responses, We supposedly get the Conus feed, not the Alaska Spot beam. From the coverage map I don't know how but it works. So from what I'm getting as that some fuzziness on the TV's should be expected with our setup unless we are going to start replacing all of the cables. I...

I'll try to check the firmware later. TheKrell, I checked the link you gave and noticed a recurring theme. I don't think we get a spotbeam in shemya from the maps. Of the Conus channels we should get, the one's we DON'T get are almost all on transponder 17 with a few exceptions on 31,29,23. Is...

We don't get any other dish network sats. Our dish is 10.5 elevation and the channels go out pretty frequently with rain. Our local dish that we receive channels from anchorage is at 2.7 degree elevation.

Hello all. I posted here before some time ago but I couldn't figure out how to view my old post. I have a 3 part issue. 1. Our receivers do not update. I was told because we are in a remote location in Shemya, AK that they cannot lock onto the transponder to do the update? Not sure this sounds...

I am a navaids/radio tech. I've been given the responsibility of maintaining dish network on a remote island in Alaska (shemya). The way we have it set up is to connect to satellite 129 EchoStar west. I have optimized the dish to the best of my ability and get about -47dbm on the "super buddy"...