make sure your looking at the right spotbeam. Example : my locals are on spotbeam9 with around 100 signal strength, i can go down to, say, spotbeam 7 thats got a 65 signal. Thats doesn't matter because spotbeam 7 doesn't carry any channels that i get, its got locals from another city thats probably a couple hundred miles away but the spotbeam bleeds just enough over in my area to pick up a signal. If the spotbeam your looking at on the signal strength screen is not about the same as all the other non-spotbeam transponders then your looking at the wrong spotbeam that doesn't carry your locals. Just something to thing about.