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    Trouble setting eastern arc sat’s

    Update. I decided to go the long route and start with the dish deliberately pointed further west then it should. I then went through the process of changing the azimuth ever so slightly towards the east and running check switch until I finally received a signal for the 61.5 sat and it had moved...
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    Trouble setting eastern arc sat’s

    Update. I pulled the antenna off the mast and changed it to the numbers from dishpointer.com.while the antenna was off the mast I corrected it to be level, it was off a small amount. I pointed the antenna to the general direction shown on the dishpointer.com web site. I rotated the antenna very...
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    Trouble setting eastern arc sat’s

    Is it suggested to power cycle the Hopper3 receiver after every adjustment or is doing a check installation OK? I’m retired and love the challenge of tuning the antenna knowing I only need to do this twice a year. Better still would be using a meter. Any suggestions on a meter for the hybrid setup?
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    Trouble setting eastern arc sat’s

    I will do that in the morning when I have some daylight. I’ll report back with the results.
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    Trouble setting eastern arc sat’s

    *************** I use the chart provided by Dish. I’m at zip code 342## and have the antenna set to 55,67,156. In the check switch readout sat 61.5 shows as locked with a signal strength of 70, the second node displays “conn”. I’m not getting all of my subscribed channels which is expected since...
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    Trouble setting eastern arc sat’s

    Just moved to my Florida location for the winter and I’m trying set the antenna for the eastern arc. I have the 2 LNB-Hybrid setup (Hopper 3) and have no problem with sat 61.5 but all I get for sat 72 is “conn”. Signal strength on 61.5 is 70 and I read in these forums about possibly adjusting...