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Well amazingly enough, I began to have some recording issues.

I have an external 600gb disk plugged into the tuner and have been recording PBJ and RTV daily for months.

About a week ago I started losing signal because the drought has dried the ground up badly and the dish pole drooped..
I put a soaker hose around the pole for a few days and got the ground damp again and the pole straightened up and I got signal back.

But about 4 days ago it stopped recording (on the 25th).

Saturday I walked past the tuner and saw the red LED on so I assumed it was recording Wolfman Mac and Offbeat Cinema like usual. I didn't check it at the time because I was watching MeTV in the other room on a different system.

Sunday I looked up at the tuner and the red LED was on. Hmmmm... ???

So I turned the TV on to see what it was recording but it did not show that it was recording anything.
I checked the DVR files and I could see the last thing it recorded was PBJ Harvey Toons on Saturday at 2pm. The recordings for Harvey toons at 10:30 was missing and both Wolfman Mac and Offbeat Cinema was missing for Saturday.

I played back the recording from 2pm and it was fine. Obviously the external disk is connected and operating properly.

I checked all the schedules and they all had the right times and dates and the system clock was correct.

Still, the red recording light was on. So I powered it off and when it rebooted the message came up that USB Disk A was connected (or something like that) and the green USB light was on.

Today I checked and there were no recordings for yesterday and it did not record today at 2pm even though the red recording light came on at 2pm. It should have gone off at 2:30 (it used to) but it did not turn off and there was no recording for today even though it indicated that it did record.

The disk shows that it has about 450gb free.

I thought maybe it could be a firmware issue so I checked and the firmware was dated 2/18/13.
So I saved my channels database to the disk then I tuned to the update channel on G19 and did a firmware update to the current one, it's dated 6/26/13 now.
I rebooted then reloaded my channels database.

I am hoping this will fix it. I guess I'll find out tonight at 10:30 when it's supposed to record Harvey toons.

Does anyone know what this might be about? It's worked great for the 9-10 months I've had it and just started acting funny after my dish poles got loose and and I lost signal.
This week I plan to plant a new pole at least 4 feet deep, like my C-band dishes.

Thanks!