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1000.2 Sudden Death
Happy new year to everyone! It wouldn't be a new year without a new problem.
My VIP 722 started popping up with "partial signal loss" messages on tuner #2 yesterday afternoon. I was on the same channel as tuner #1, but #1 was working fine.
After a bit, the channel came back on tuner #2, but was noisy and obviously suffering from signal loss. Some time later, tuner #1 stated showing the same signal loss message. I did a reset on the receiver and noticed that I can only see the 110 West sat regardless of which sat is selected in setup.
This all started after a sudden temperature drop. It seems that as the temp dropped, the problem got worse. Today, I still have only a few channels available and can only see 110. Selecting either 119 or 129 only results in "Wrong Sat - Echostar 110 West" being displayed, but the signal level on 110 is good.
Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this? I know there were some cold weather issues with certain Winegard LNBFs, but I though those were only on the Direct systems. I replaced my old Dish 500 in April, so this 1000.2 has not yet seen a cold Colorado winter. I have had zero issues with it until today.
I don't know if those LNBFs have died, but it seems more like the internal switch may not be working. Could it have frozen up? I only have the one VIP722 connected to a single coax RG-6 run that is about 20 feet long. My Dish is down low so I thought about puling the LNB unit and bringing it inside to warm up for a bit. Am I wasting my time on this? Should I be looking at something else?
We had some snow (just a couple of inches) and no wind. We do have some cloud cover, but not enough to totally block 2 sats. The bitter cold is what I suspect.
Thanks in advance for any tips you can give me!
Happy new year to everyone! It wouldn't be a new year without a new problem.
My VIP 722 started popping up with "partial signal loss" messages on tuner #2 yesterday afternoon. I was on the same channel as tuner #1, but #1 was working fine. After a bit, the channel came back on tuner #2, but was noisy and obviously suffering from signal loss. Some time later, tuner #1 stated showing the same signal loss message. I did a reset on the receiver and noticed that I can only see the 110 West sat regardless of which sat is selected in setup.
This all started after a sudden temperature drop. It seems that as the temp dropped, the problem got worse. Today, I still have only a few channels available and can only see 110. Selecting either 119 or 129 only results in "Wrong Sat - Echostar 110 West" being displayed, but the signal level on 110 is good.
Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this? I know there were some cold weather issues with certain Winegard LNBFs, but I though those were only on the Direct systems. I replaced my old Dish 500 in April, so this 1000.2 has not yet seen a cold Colorado winter. I have had zero issues with it until today.
I don't know if those LNBFs have died, but it seems more like the internal switch may not be working. Could it have frozen up? I only have the one VIP722 connected to a single coax RG-6 run that is about 20 feet long. My Dish is down low so I thought about puling the LNB unit and bringing it inside to warm up for a bit. Am I wasting my time on this? Should I be looking at something else?
We had some snow (just a couple of inches) and no wind. We do have some cloud cover, but not enough to totally block 2 sats. The bitter cold is what I suspect.
Thanks in advance for any tips you can give me!
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Update: Brought the LNB in for a bit, put it back and all now works perfectly. I don't know if it was the warmth or just the act of removing power for a while that fixed it. Either way, it looks like I need to replace my LNBF unit. 
Does anyone know of these having cold weather issues? Is there a better aftermarket LNBF pack for this antenna?
Does anyone know of these having cold weather issues? Is there a better aftermarket LNBF pack for this antenna?
For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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I have been optimizing the site the past few days... and got us here now. We are rocking now!
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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. 
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
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Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?
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Can't help but wonder if a worker overlooked checking the harness. I rarely ride a roller coaster anymore but when I do I check the harness myself pretty aggressively.
Can't imagine what the son is going through.
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Can't imagine what the son is going through.
Dad levitated and bled then fell to his death from coaster
Eyewitnesses have shared fresh details of the horrific accident that happened at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday afternoon.
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Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?
Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…
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Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?
Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…
It makes sense, however, I would want more types of restraints, so if one doesn't work, the other does ... the restraints coming over the shoulder I would have expected ... with a Seat belt as last resort.
Fwiw, I inquired with what they use on Coasters at Cedar Point, various Coasters, different restraints according to what the car and track requires ...
NONE of the Coasters at CP use THAT particular system
I'm glad to see ...
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OTHER Mini Multiswitch
I just received 6 receiver 2 port mini Multiswitch and it work great, no external power need it, and you can connect 6 receiver instead of 4 on most Mini Multiswitches... If anyone is interested in where they can get one PM me....
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Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
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Tony as the director.
Would you rather have LaRoche ???Tony as the director.
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I bought the fixed color version of these bulbs for my store several years ago...work great and no more replacing ballast. Finally had one go out and when I went back to Amazon I saw that now they come in selectable versions so no more guess work as to what color light would do best in a certain area. They are now double OR single ended...used to be strictly one way or the other. If any of you are looking at replacing the old style 4 or 8 ft bulbs, you might want to give these a try. The 8 footers are BRIGHT. I put 5 in my shooting/target shed and you can get a decent tan if you are in there long enough.
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