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I’ve never had a messenger on any of my Dish installs. Of course, none of them were grounded. I’d say if you can stop the hum, call it a day.

Whoa! Good info, thank you. So, the lack of a messenger wire with the coax connecting the dish to the splitters would indicate a compromised install? Is that correct? Currently, there's absolutely no buzz from the speakers, but I moved the ground wire from the current splitter to the orange...

That's definitely improper grounding. The green ground wire should be attached to the orange hub, not the red splitter. Then the cable from dish should have a grounding wire (called a messenger wire that's part of the cable) with one end attached at dish mount and one end also attached to orange...

Couple of pictures attached. The first picture shows the ground cable attached to thew splitter. It disappears into the wall, and probably snakes under the house. On the 2nd picture, the large cable to the bottom left comes from the dish itself. I don't see any "second black wire" attached to...

Where is the other end of ground wire attached? And there should be a second black wire attached as well that comes from the cable going to the dish, with it also attached to the mount for the dish. Could you take a few pictures?

I noticed a quiet buzz coming from the speakers, so I pulled the coax connection from the Hopper and the buzz was gone. (I had a problem restoring the Hopper picture. I had to reboot several times due to the blue screen of death but I got it going again.) The buzz was still present after...

Disconnect the Satellite input coax cable from the receiver, and then try turning the power on again. Sometimes over time things will happen to cables that causes them to short out (ground to center conductor). If this is the case, your receiver was trying to protect itself from that shorting...

If there's electrical or grounding issues it can come and go. I've seen some pretty weird stuff. Ive had one where everyone the ac kicked on the receiver lost signal and as soon as compressor kicked off signal came back. Lifting the ground resolved. I had one where the dish was grounded to the...

Couple other things to try, is a new hdmi cable and can also try disconnecting the coax from the hopper. If it goes away with coax disconnected then you may have a bad or unapproved ground on the dish outside. A proper ground should be tied into the houses electric panel ground. If it has a...

If signal is good, there's three things it could be Damaged cable or connectors - visually check every inch if the cable and disconnect all connectors and make sure no damage. Electrical issues - usually caused by bad house wiring involving the ground, can be checked be temporarily using a...

In a couple of weeks, spring will be here. Sure, the first day of spring is here today, but the real “spring” we expect might take a little longer. It’s been a mild winter for much of the country. No matter, though — there is still work to once the remaining snows thaw and it’s safe to be up on...

I put the receiver and monitor outside and I am working on getting the one tuned in that I want

Kind of a bummer because he has a polar mount. We spoke today and there was a conversation a week or so back. The pole is not plumb in the ground. And so far he's moved the dish more like an az/el would be. So yeah. The dish has been spun on the pole and the elevation has been changed. There a...

Congratulations! You just moved into your new home. Well, it’s new to you. Rather than a new build, you chose for a home that someone else lived in. When you get there, you find a surprise: A lot of wiring’s already been done. There are a pair of wires running to the roof, plus a bunch of...

The receiver I have has a beeper and does sun and heat make it easier and what about the hook mount how do I know if it’s setup right

Oh it will be a week definitely. In that time you sound like an eager and smart dude. Let's try to get you (and your dish) steered in the right direction first. We will need to just pull that motor off the arm and put it away for the time being. 1) Make positive you have returned the dish on the...

The receiver is a gt media and the motor screw does move but with the motor betas old as it is like someone else said it probably uses a potentiometer and won’t work with newer equipment so it will probably have to be swapped out anyway even if it does work and I have heard of some guys picking...

It will be at least a week before I could get up that way. Yeah. Like Mike says we don't know how far you moved the dish from where it initially was. But there should be rust marks to put back. As for the pole not being plumb. I know the area good. Back in the day installers used post hole...

Look at the pole, right at where the mount and bolts are. They likely indented the metal when tightened up. Find those indents, (unscrew one bolt completely, and look through the hole to find the indents) and put the mount right on them, and retighten the bolts. Then, use your level and find...

You should check all of the bolts/nuts and make sure they are tight.

Thank you for the info. You were correct that my ESPN issue had nothing to do with the satellite problem. I discovered that the wind had blown a lawn chair against the dish base (it's on the ground) and it had moved a just a fraction of an inch. I gently moved the base back to its former...

I was talking to someone recently and they told me that they really didn’t understand grounding. There are a lot of resources on this blog having to do with grounding. But, when I look at them, I realize that there’s no single article that goes over the grounding in a really basic way. So, I...

Bingo. That's the reflexive greed. Nothing more to be made here, let's put it all on the now-former customer to part ways. Even though they've been locked in battle with DTV for years with dueling 2-year "free" (or $400 gift card) deals to get new or returning subs, only to then re-treat them...

I understand why Dish does this, shipping is expensive, they will no longer be getting money from the customer canceling to make it up, also I doubt $25 covers all the costs, I just shipped a box via USPS, roughly the same size box, weighing 4lbs 11oz, via Ground Advantage. Did this at USPS...

The spirit of DIY satellite television is not dead! Every day we have people call Solid Signal because they’re trying to improve their satellite TV system. Most are customers of either DIRECTV or DISH, but there are still some enthusiasts out there working with the older-style C-Band “FTA”...