722 now "voting" between 61.5 and 129?

[sigmtr]

When the Champaign/Decatur/Springfield HD locals were made available on Ciel2, I decided it was time to take the foil off the 1000.2's 129 LNB. It was placed there to force my national HD channels to come from a wing dish looking at 61.5 since it was more reliable when I installed the 1K2.

So I figured I would get HD nationals now exclusively from 129 as it seemed that was the preferred bird in the past. However, with no apparent service interruptions, I will see 61.5 providing the signal for the much of the HD content, including the Weather Channel, Fox News and a couple of premium channel groups that I subscribe to. Yet the new locals are strong on 129, so there's nothing wrong there. At other times, 129 is providing all HD channels.

To use an old two-way radio term as discussed her in the past, this is like the receiver voting to use the strongest signal for any given channel if it exists on two satellites. Is this something that was added to the software recently? The 722 has L617.

sigmtr

 

[digiblur]

Nope. It just seems to flip flop back and forth as the receiver loads the channel maps differently from time to time. Nothing to do with signal strength from what I can tell.

 

[garys]

Makes no sense, a few weeks ago my area had some very high winds. A tree branch hit my dish for 61.5 and I lost some channels but the strange thing that happened was one of my two 622's would pull USA HD off 110 and the other off 61.5. I could not get the receiver to change to 110 and every once in a while the second one would get it or would switch to 61.5 and lose it. Frustrating for the couple of days until I could get to repoint my dish.

 

[KKlare]

On the day that we first got locals in Albuquerque on 129, I checked the sat source for a lot of channels and and found that most had changed from 61.5 to 129. Then I tried the other 722 and found they were 61.5 mostly. As Digiblur suggested it is something else that determines which receiver gets what.
-Ken