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I am switching to DirectTV and had my new box installed yesterday. I figured I'd be able to access all my timers on my VIP722 without the dish connected, but it seems if there is no signal it won't let you into the timers? Is there a way around this? I'm wishing I wrote down all of those...

OK, I did some tweaking without a meter and I think I made some good improvements. First I remeasured my signals inside the house: 110 = 53, 61, 53, 61 119 = 49, 64, 62, 68 129 = 40, 37, 40, 40 I then took a tv and my dish receiver to the roof and re-measured to see if I had any huge signal...

Cool, any pointers on a meter I could buy that would work well with my setup? The dish says Dish Super on it.

Appreciate the education and advise. Since I'm a little new at this and I don't mind spending a couple bucks, is it worth getting a handheld device to assist in pointing the dish correctly? TV is not that close...I could probably rip the dish box out though and plug it into a computer monitor...

DMA? My zip code is 95634 if that helps narrow it down. When you say the dish should be peaked a little, you mean it might be worthy of me tweaking the pointing? Sorry, new to this lingo :-)

Finally getting back to this, we're doing some work on the house and I was put in a position to have to re-route the cable to the dish box. Unfortunately I did not re-check signal strength prior to re-routing.... I did check after though (it's certainly possible other things have happened since...

Awesome, thanks everyone for the amazingly quick responses, great board. I'll check all the cabling. I pulled some splitters and other crap out a while ago but did not finish tracing out the entire line. We have one TV and one receiver, they had wires going all over the house so I want to be...

Thanks for the clarification 129 on 19, 20, 29 & 30 = 45, 44, 45, 45 So if all is within range, if I continue to get some dropped signal, is there anything I can do? Today it dropped out, was just cloudy, not even really raining. Just the nature of my locations?

OK, checked things again. Switch says DPP 1k.2 w/ separator I measured the following signal strengths (in order, transponders 14, 15, 16 & 21) 110 = 58, 64, 57, 64 119 = 53, 69, 66, 72 129 = 0, 43, 41, 58

Georgetown California, sierra foothills. I ran a check switch and it all checked out OK, I forget if it was a 1.4 or a 1.2, I'll check it again after it finishes recording a show it is recording now. I have no idea though if it was a 1.4 or 1.2 at the old house...if that matters. If the...

Moved to a house, Dish was already installed and we brought our VIP 722 receiver with us. Plugged it in and it worked, so didn't really do much of anything else. Over time I noticed we'd get some signal drops, usually would come in bad weather, but we had that in our old house and it didn't...