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Update! Installed a new hard drive (Wednesday) and the unit has been running fine since, 5 days and counting! Reason I did not want to call Dish is like Bob stated, "if its just a drive issue the refub box may have other problems.. refurb receivers can be a PIA." Since the unit was working...

I'm having the exact same issues. Started a week ago after receiving L623?? First time it happened the box shut off and wouldn't come back on. Left it unplugged for an hour, plugged it back in and it worked for about 30 minutes. Then shut off again?? Left it unplugged for a few hours, came...

Good thinking Pepper! I have the sat plugged into the receiver - do I need to aim (as best as possible) and then run check switch before I can see signal strength? Or will I see signal strength before I run check switch? Thanks again for your help...

Thanks for the input! I have a GPS unit with a compass so the azimuth is easy. I'm confused with the skew and elevation however. When I got the settings from Dishpointer, I also pulled the ones for the 61.5 sat which it's currently pointed at. The settings from the site do not match that on...

What is the correct way to "point" a Dish 500 at the 129W sat? I have a single dish pointing at 61.5 now for my HD channels. All of our regional sports are only on 129. I was hoping to just re-point the 61.5 to the 129w. Is that possible? I pulled the settings from dishpointer for my area...

My FOX station did the exact same thing on the exact same day. Just leave all your settings alone! The channel will come back with in 24 hours!! I too thought it was a multipath issue - re-aimed antenna, checked cables, etc. I spent about 4 hours trying to troubleshoot the problem! I have a...

Yes, you can add two antennas. I had the same issue with my OTA channels. All my channels are within 10 degrees of each other; however when I would aim the antenna I would get all but one. Would reposition the antenna to pick the one up and loose another! So, I added another antenna and...

Thought I might try posting in this forum: Here's an interesting question hopefully someone can answer! I have a dish 921 receiver with a R/S 2152 antenna and a channel master amp for the OTA channels. For the first year I received all my locals both uhf and vhf using this combo. Recently...

I have a CM 3041. It does not have a switch on the amp... Only has one input

Here's an interesting question hopefully someone can answer! I have a dish 921 receiver with a R/S 2152 antenna and a channel master amp for the OTA channels. For the first year I received all my locals both uhf and vhf using this combo. Recently, last week after I had to reset my 921, I lost...

Foxbat, No it literaly looked like it was melting on the screen. (ie. image was running to the bottom of the screen with the top of the screen being black) I actually thought it was my 4 month old HDTV melting!!! The 811 would no longer power on after that?

Update: The first two 811's ran perfectly, even locals, UNTIL the software was updated to the v284. No problems what so ever on the 283 version?? The last one "melted" immediatley after Dish ran a force software update to the 284 version, leading me to beleive that it has something to do...

Has anyone had any major difficulties with their 811 receivers? I have replaced two in the last three months (one died Saturday before the Superbowl) and now lost a third this past week!!! Two of the units did the same thing - lost signal and just kept looping while trying to acquire a signal...