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I was given a Dish 522 today. I have Directv but the receiver doesn't have an OTA tuner so I was wondering if I could use the 522 as a tuner to pull an some local HD channels which are not carried by Directv. Possible at all?

Hammer, I found that with a signal 70-75 I got a few lost signals an hour like you but with a signal of 65-70 I got none. If you can lower your signal a bit more you might see that too. Adding one splitter would do that.

I have no idea but it seems like to me that somehow the extra power builds up and overloads something which causes the signal dropout, then it gets reset and then buildup begins again. But I'm a mechanical engineer so what do I know?? :)

On the subject of attenuation of the signal to get around this problem......... Here in Springfield, MO everyone with the Dish receivers are having this problem it seems and some have fixed it with attenuation. I was able to fix it by switching from my roof mounted antenna which was giving me...

I missed the subchannels of channel 1 part of the manual and the CSR didn't mention it either but I'll look into it tonight. Thanks.

Can someone explain to correct way to connect my VCR to the 811? I have the 811 output connected ok and can record satellite programming but I cannot get the tape output to go through the 811 and on to the TV. I called Dish CSR and was told that I should run the VCR output straight to the TV...