722k Issues

[88slayer]

I am currently having issues with my 722k reciever. It is intermittently deciding to lose connection to the dish. I can make sure everything is tight, retighten the cable, double check signals at the dish, and still wont get tje box to recognize the dish. Then it will randomly start working again with no issues. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[MaryB@SlingTV]

Hi and welcome to Sat Guys. I would like to try and help you with your issue. When you say the receiver is not connecting, is it rebooting, powering off then on and going through acquiring satellite signal? How long has it been doing this? Has anything changed since the was working properly to now? Have you attempted to reset the receiver by unplugging from the power for 10 seconds? Please let me know and we will go from here!!

 

[88slayer]

It never happens while we are watching, so I am not sure if it is rebooting or not. Nothing is changed at all in the setup when this does occur. I have unplugged and reset it a few times. Also this has been going on for around 2 months. IT has currently been disconnected for 10 hours that I know of.

 

[Dirtydan]

Most likely you won't get any more help until this afternoon (PST), when the dirt team gets to work.
Dan

 

[ronharp1]

I am currently having issues with my 722k reciever. It is intermittently deciding to lose connection to the dish. I can make sure everything is tight, retighten the cable, double check signals at the dish, and still wont get tje box to recognize the dish. Then it will randomly start working again with no issues. Any help would be appreciated.

I've had this problem the last 4 or 5 weeks. I get it back by using remote and pressing 6, 1 enter. Resetting does nothing for the problem. The last week it seems to have corrected on it's own.

 

[s10zr2]

Do you mean it is loosing connection because you get the signal lost screen? Do you have an over the air antenna hooked up to it?

 

[wardfan]

It could be a bad fitting or bad barrel somewhere. I've seen a few barrels causing intermittent issues, but most commonly it's been some sort of short. Check ALL of the fitting for a loose braid somewhere, check the ground block, wall plate, every one you can find, even at the LNBF if possible. But most of the times that I've seen this it was caused by a short intermittently causing the receiver to not power the LNBF because the voltage shorts out to the ground (path of least resistance). If you can't find anything there, then look for bad barrels somewhere. But you could also have a tech out and have him check the dbm at the receiver and see if there is a cable issue.

 

[numen]

I had a similar problem but just lengthend the copper core 1/4 inch or so and tightened the rg6 end and 129 came right back.

 

[Stalker]

I've had this problem the last 4 or 5 weeks. I get it back by using remote and pressing 6, 1 enter. Resetting does nothing for the problem. The last week it seems to have corrected on it's own.

What does using the remote and pressig 6 and then 1 do? It only changes my channel.

 

[TheKrell]

I think he means menu - 6 - 1.

 

[David Taylor]

I had similar issues when my account for first set up. It was a bad LNB. They did tests and didn't think that was it but got exasperated and replaced the LNB. Voila. Flawless ever since. I don't know about your situation though.

 

[pabeader]

press swap
change to a non ota channel
press swap again

problem fixed.

 

[redelephants]

press swap
change to a non ota channel
press swap again

problem fixed.

I had this problem when I first started using the mta module. These symptoms will occur when you have a signal loss on your ota channel that the receiver is tuned to. The module has weird ota signal fluctuations that are unexplained. Doing exactly what you have described is how I recover from the problem.