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Wow, that's nice that the replacement worked. I wish I would have been offered that deal, I would have gone for that instead of the 510 for $80 and $5/month PVR/DVR fee. Knocking on wood, the 510 has been working pretty well, except for a few unexplained outages that weren't weather/blockage...

replaced 501 with 510, still drop outs Hi Everyone, It's been a while... Like I had written in a previous post, I ordered a Dish 510 as replacement for my possibly faulty 501. Strangely, the 501 had worked quite well ever since the 510 arrived, so it was just sitting in a box until today. I...

Have DishNetwork exchange the 501 Hi ggberk, You've come to the right thread, I think. Everyone posting here has had issues that seem to point to a flaw in the Dish 501 PVR. In my case, I replaced all cabling, the dish, new LNBs and the problem is still there. Signal strength is perfect one...

it's not the alignment... thanks for the reply, but it's not the alignment anymore. As I stated earlier: A short history (so you don't have to read all posts): dish 500 with PVR 501 subscriber for 2.5 years, initial installation worked pretty much without problems until about a month ago...

oh man, if this is a 501 bug... oh man, if this is indeed a 501 bug, I'll be mighty pissed. I went through a whole lot of expensive troubleshooting this issue and just ordered a 510 as a replacement. If all this turns out to be caused by buggy software, that would be just too much...

thanks... Thanks Simple Simon, I kind of came to the same conclusion about it possibly being a thermal issue. I posted something over here because this thread is now not really fitting anymore: http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?p=137157#post137157 Called DishNetwork today and...

same here... Hi all, I've been experiencing the same problem as the initial poster, although I don't have another receiver to prove it yet. Initially I thought the dish was misaligned and I replied to a post over here: http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=7533&page=2&pp=15 (It was...

and further deteriorating... Ok, just as expected (after the first few outages) the signal dropped increasingly on my 501. I followed Simple Simon's advice and did a Switch Matrix reset like he suggested. I was easily able to get the screen with four Xs (for a legacy LNB?) after pulling the...

Thanks for the reply Simple Simon, Transponder 11 on 119 is 125, 12 on 119 is 118, 11 on 110 is 108, 12 on 110 is 105 I think that should be good enough, right? I will definitely try the Switch matrix reset you suggested, though. Maybe that'll do the trick and teach the ol' 501...

damn, here we go again... so if anyone is still listening... About three hours later the signal is now disappearing again :mad: Getting the Acquiring satellite signal screen, it'll lock on for a while then drop off again and I assume it'll get increasingly worse until I won't get...

Finally got it working, I think... Hi all, Sorry, I wasn't able to post back when I wanted to, because I had to brush up on knowledge a bit and even after that, my reception was spotty. Here's the progress: After I had gotten the info about my dish pointing at the wrong satellite, I...

Oh cool! It's so good to know what's wrong, makes it that much easier to fix. Thanks Justin! Will try my luck tomorrow and post back with results.

Hey, thanks for the fast replies everyone. I'll get back to you with the part number, Justin. Have fun at the Network Summit! As far as starting over the aiming process, I don't have a problem with that, but it seems that when I reset the switch (so all four ports are Xs), I then have to aim...

Thanks boba, the skew was always set to 127º (the correct value for my ZIP) and the mast seems perfectly vertical. The installation (receiver, dish & lnbs) is about two years old (and was free then), so I'm not a new customer. I think that means I have to pay for customer service now, right? An...

similar but reversed issue... Hi, I stumbled onto this thread through a Google search and found Mainstreet's advice extremely helpful (THANX). So much so, that I now got back the 119 satellite superstrong (125 on many transponders). The switch reset (pointing the dish elsewhere) did the trick...