What is the best way to test your system?

[ZENCURL]

I subscrib to Bell Expressvu through a broker and recently lost my signal. When we moved into our house (Chicago) there was a DirecTV dish already installed; so I hooked up a ExpressVu 3100 receiver and repointed the RCA 18" dish to N91and enjoyed curling to two years. Now I can not get locked? I replace the RCA 18" with a 24" dish and a single LNB thinking that I need to increase the signal to lock; Found N91 and got 100%. After about a day or two of having good reception; the signal is gone completely. I figured I did not lock down the disk tight enough (high wind couple nights ago). Going through repointing process; I now can not find any signal at all; not even a wrong SAT message. I tried repacing the LNB; still no luck. What am I doing wrong?

Is there a suggested procedure to test all the componets within the system?

How do I know the 3100 box is ok?

Getting flustrated because Brier Finals is today. This all seemed so simple two years ago?

Zencurl

 

[sksatellite]

If you has the multimeter, you can check and see if the receiver sending the 13/18 volts out to the LNBF, if there nothing, the receiver is bad.

 

[mre]

It kind of sounds like a receiver problem - maybe the tuner on the receiver is going. If you have a Dish Network receiver or know someone that does you can hook it up to see if you can get a signal on the satellite aiming screen.

 

[ZENCURL]

Get 18 volts DC at output of receiver and at the LNB. So that eliminates a cable problem.

 

[Bob Haller]

do E receivers still see EV sats? might be one day to test system?

 

[Mr Tony]

yes they still do show both EVu & Dish satellites.

you should be able to get ExpressVu in Chicago with no issues. Make sure the elevation is right. Do you get nothing (no signal)?

 

[ZENCURL]

Current can not find any signal - not even a wrong sat signal