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I would try Mike's ^^^ suggestion first with the connectors. And if the connectors look good then check for voltage between ground and the center conductor. Beyond that, have you checked to see if the dish is bent? Also, is the pole still perfectly vertical from side to side and front to back??

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I have to say I'm a little surprised nobody's grabbed this. Here's a list of what these components are selling for. Except for the dishes themselves most of this stuff is 2 years old or less. All located near Lehighton PA. KTI 7.5' mesh dish (Excellent C-band and Ku) - $7-800 C1W-PLL LNBF...

No, I did not. A conical scalar is needed for an offset dish used for C-band. Which is the question he asked.

Did you mean that it will see much more than dish surface, including lots of ground noise?

After a ten year absence, I got Dish installed again this past Saturday. Have a Hopper 3+. Since the install I am unable to watch any on demand title as they freeze in the same place. Oddly though I am able to watch the same on demand titles on Dish Anywhere app on a firestick or cast it from...

That voltage can be checked with the IRD Port on the Sat Buddy and a jumper to the Coax In on the Hopper. For a Hopper it should be showing about 26Volts. For a VIP 722 about 17 Volts but you may have water damage, not at the LNB but in the Cabling/Connections

My 722 lost signal during a thunderstorm (typical Florida cloud cover event) but didn't come back after the storm passed. After multiple reset attempts and checking the point dish screen (all zeros on both 61.5 and 72.7), I discovered that if I leave the point dish screen up and unscrew the coax...

I have three different off-grid solar situations (RV and 2 homes). I originally started this thread as my mountain property had few options for dish placement. The dish only got signal 150' from the cabin. I was having issues with the receiver resetting and I thought it could be due to a voltage...

This is interesting and have been keeping up with the thread. The OP asks if a 12 VDC system can be used to power his SWM. But no mention of the string of components he has a need to power. Comments are going on a tangent. Straight from receiver to the dish? Any switches, etc. in the mix? The...

What you see above you is a coaxial surge protector. It’s this one, in fact. While most coaxial surge protectors are designed for 50-ohm cables with N connectors, this one is designed for home cell booster systems with F connectors. It’s a mysterious piece of equipment, and a lot of folks don’t...

Everyone’s talking about Starlink. And why shouldn’t they? It’s a real change to the way people get internet. It may be the first move toward a future where people don’t need fiber coming to their homes at all. Starlink is… …satellite internet, but not what you think of as satellite internet...

Here’s the basic problem. When satellite TV was first designed, it was designed for things that don’t move. Things like houses and restaurants. Looking back even further, all television was essentially built around the idea that you tended to stay in your local area. Back in the 1950s, driving...

What’s better than a tailgate party? Fire up the barbecue, put on some TV and watch people find you! It’s a perfect way to make new friends. A lot of folks with DISH don’t want to tailgate, they tell me, because setting up the dish is a pain. You have to put the thing up on a tripod and spend...

Of course they get all three tuners. The DPP ports are connected to a Solo or Duo Node mounted right at the dish, so only one coax is needed for the long run to each receiver. Dish hasn't authorized any of my installations. Dish probably doesn't like that I take one of my 1K4's apart and move...

Sounds good but those aren't Dish Authorized installs. They want connections on or in the house near a ground point

I read that. With my house there isn't a place to ground the wire at the point of entry. Grounding it to the satellite ground was bad and caused the ground loop hum. Grounding it in the house where it comes into the closet using the panels green screw results in no hum.

Satellite and TV antenna grounding is usually done at the point of cable entry into the house. You should NEVER use some other device's ground but instead, make an independent run to an established "bonding point". The ground in the case of satellite dishes and TV antennas is mostly about...

You do not want your antennas or satellite dishes left ungrounded. NEC code requires that all antennas/satellite dishes be grounded. If you are experiencing hum then it is because of an improper grounding setup. Despite what some 'professional' installers do they are in actuality going against...

A ground loop is just that, a loop. The correct way to ground a DirecTV dish is to run a single ground to the electric system ground that is connected to the main electrical panel. That is what the National Electric Code requires for an outside antenna. That is what the ground wire on the...

In my original DTV install, I noticed the coax and the dish weren't grounded. My roof at the time had nowhere really to ground it to. It's a flat roof - house was built a couple years ago. At that time, I was canceling directv and I put up a Televes antenna. I added grounding to the mast and...

I've considered the limited signals and other points you made. Maybe get something else? If so, definitely a similar unit. The V8 Satfinder 2 seems too cheap, but maybe? It's not like I have to get a new digital tuner, it's just a luxury. Less leg work. In the past I was satisfied using my...

Hopefully you can map out another spot where it can receive signal. If you have not done so already, try www.dishpointer.com - just enter the exact latitude and longitude where you want to put the dish then select the satellite you want to 'see' and a green line will appear. Zoom in, look along...

Hi I had decided to connect the meter and try to get a signal while the dish was on the ground and it worked. I put my dish on the pole and it seems like a bearing mango tree I have is in the way. I plan on putting in another pole.

I must say I find it a bit funny, or maybe ironic, that a ham radio operator would be posting this, given that many hams have held similar attitudes toward non-hams that dabbled in any kind of technology. I am old enough to remember how contemptuously some hams viewed CB radio operators back in...