Recent content by jrchip01

Has happened to me 3 or 4 times in the last week. Four local channels (Richmond, Va.) involved, usually from 4 to 7 PM. I record local news every day. When problem occurs, news does not record. Going to Point Dish usually fixes it. Does Dish know about this?

Many thanks to Thomas Faust. He explained my options - scheduled a visit next week to install a Hopper and 2 Joeys.

To: D.I.R.T member: I have been a Dish customer since about 2005. I currently have a 622 on its last legs (3 or 4 daily spontaneous reboots) and 2 211's. I am interested in upgrading to a Hopper and 2 Joeys (possibly a Sling). What are my options/costs vs. current configuration? I currently...

Cooper Witter: In my case the technician eliminated my dish pointing to 110, 119 and 129. He then removed the single-LNB dish which had pointed to 61.5 and replaced it with a new 3-LNB dish pointing at 77, 72 and 61.5. This restored all my missing HD channels. Only minor downside is that I...

Upon closer inspection, here is what's missing of the premium channels: 6 0f 7 HBO, 3 of 5 SHO, 3 of 6 STARZ and 2 of 2 CINEMAX. I have scheduled a return visit to really solve the problem this time. Many thanks to all who enlightened me...

3HaloODST, Iceberg and Tampa8, Thanks for replying and for the heads-up. The tech didn't re-aim the 500. I can't find any missing HD channels. Any idea which ones would be missing with the loss of 129? Chip

Before yesterday, my setup was a Dish 500 on 61.5 and a Dish 1000 on 110, 119 and 129. About a month ago I started losing some HD channels sporadically. in the last 2 weeks I lost them completely. System info showed that 129 was out. Called Dish - the tech said the reason I lost 129 was a...

Jimmerinwi: The tech did mention that Dish requires straight runs on new installations. However given that the ground was frozen solid, this would have been quite difficult. If this winter ever ends, I'll try again...

I was getting a "complete signal loss" message on all receivers for certain channels. Also, I could only get about 2 or 3 hours of the program guide. I have a 2-dish setup (61.5 on a Dish 500 and 110, 119 and 129 on a Dish 1000). "System Info" showed that 119 and 129 were dead. I checked and...

bobl: Thanks for replying. I used Google to search this forum and came up with the following posts: (first one is by you). SatelliteGuys.US - View Single Post - Letterman recording problem http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-network-forum/203609-722k-recording-problems.html...

Had a 622 recording of a 2-hour movie set up for 2:00 AM. Next morning saw that ~15 minutes into the recording it was "stopped by user 1". I was asleep at the time, so it wasn't me, and there was no else in the house. Is this a bug or is the hard drive getting ready to die? (Tried to search...

Thanks for the tip. Tried it last night and it worked very well. I wonder if Dish techs know this trick?

Additional info on L627 "black screen" bug http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-network-technical-discussions/211552-odd-622-behavior.html The above post references my first experience with a "black screen" issue probably related to L627. In it, I described having to do a reboot to get out of...

Same problem When I posted the following in the regular forum I didn't realize the behavior was related to L627. I saw the same thing you did with the exception of seeing the closed captioning (which I had enabled)...

Thank you Tech #344 Thanks for your insight.