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Hi. I have 3 Geniatech DVB S1 cards laying around and I am having problems with them. They were installed in a CW3000HD which is practically a computer. One card is not detected at all in the CW3000 and the other two give me signal strengh but no quality at all. I know these cards are cheap...

yes. I think it is enough with this thread. Any admin can close it. Thanks for all of the persons who gave their opinions.

Mike, at least that sounds fair, installer did the effort to ground the antenna, but believe me, here in PR where I live, I can assure you that 99% of the dish antennas installed by dn an dtv are not grounded. That is why I opened this thread to find out if you had the same problems in...

Thanks for all of you who has given your opinions. To resume what I found about this grounding issue: 1- Depending of the states laws and regulations, installers follow step by step the installation of the antenna and the ground. If the state's, regulations or laws are not enforced like they...

One last question , this goes to dvrexpander. You as installer, have a house with all the wiring OK and the ground point or rod of the house pretty close , lets say 20 feet, from the antenna you just installed, are you going to ground the antenna? And just a comment: What is the problem of...

Here is another thread opened regarding this. Apparently there are various opinions. All I can tell you this: DN and DTV as part of the antenna installation training, they have a manual that describes "how to ground a . If DN says dishes should be grounded, why the hell installers don't do it...

dvrexpander, that is the problem, no ground at all, not even a ground block for the coaxial cables. If you have any elecrician training, you must know that any antenna must be grounded. NEC tell you that. It is not your problem like you say if something is fried more often when grounded than...

It is because you don't live here in PR. Both main service providers DN and DTV, just plain and simple DON'T GROUND at all any antennas they install and it is been done for light years. Just ask in another forums if you like to anyone here in PR and will tell you that. What I try to accomplish...

hudgreen, is is not the installer's problem if the house has the third wire connected or not. If the installer concerns about it, there is a little gadget that you connect to any electrical outlet that fits inside your pocket and will tell you if the so called third cable is connected or not. If...

It is ok if you install your own antennas!! But if you subscribe to DN, the installer install all the equipment and should install the ground also, something they are not doing it. That is what I am talking about!!

I live in PR and thinking about a DN subscription. Well, I've always seen that all the installers here in PR doesn't ground the antennas at all, not even run a ground cable to the main electrical box chassis, not even a ground block for the coaxial cable as well. I think this is a negative point...

Thanks, I'll do it and will let you know the results.

Thanks, I'll do it that way. Another last question before getting up to the roof, Should I leave the dielectric or should I take it out?

I already have the tp's in the CW800 scanned from the bird I want to receive. Most of them are Horizontal. Should be enough to change H to V or should I rescan again?

Iceberg, did you find out about the dielectric, should it be there? I was testing this lnb by the time you posted. It had very low reception. I took the dielectric out with the same results. Do the lenght of the feedhorn is responsible of the low reception? Also if I set it to normal, how come...