Antenna help!!

[leafspring]

Hello I am using my dish reciever for a digital tuner, I had a dishnetwork 911 reciever and I was getting about 10 channels over the air, with decent reception, I then changed to a VIP 722 receiver, and was getting the same channels with much better reception, then after about 7-8 months, nothing- nothing at all. I called dish and they replaced my reciever, after putting antenna on a non hd tv, I had normal SD reception. I got the new reciever and still nothing. I then noticed the electrode to the RG6 antenna cable looked rusty?! I had a new cable made up, above and below the ground terminal, installed a new grounding terminal, and still no reception.

My antenna is a large winegard, I do not know the model, its probably about 8 years old, in very good shape, Its football season and this is driving me nuts!!

I ordered a new terminal board, it was a little corroded, not to bad. hope this fixes it.

any help or comments would be apriciated
thanks.

 

[iafirebuff]

Try posting this in the OTA (Over The Air section) - they might be able to help - or the Dish Network section

 

[Mr Tony]

moved to OTA forum

 

[JamesJ]

I just closed other thread, so to not have any other confusion! thanks
James

 

[leafspring]

thanks, problem fixed, did search for over the air and vip 722 dishnetwork and was a setting changed in dish receiver during a program update, getting 16 channels now with upgrading the corroded cable and terminal card!!

 

[timbug]

3x4 multiswitch

Hi Im Timbug I have a older directv round 18" dish single lnb with a terk clip on off air antenna I have two recievers one of the recievers I'm trying to upgrade my self to a hr22 dvr but after I installed the 3x4 multiswitch I lost reception on my off air channels my multi switch has a output for this but I dont know how I can wire it please help. Thank timbug.

 

[boba]

Hi Im Timbug I have a older directv round 18" dish single lnb with a terk clip on off air antenna I have two recievers one of the recievers I'm trying to upgrade my self to a hr22 dvr but after I installed the 3x4 multiswitch I lost reception on my off air channels my multi switch has a output for this but I dont know how I can wire it please help. Thank timbug.

HR22 is a high definition DVR it requires a Slimline 5 LNB dish a WB68 multiswitch and an AM21 ATSC tuner for OTA channels. Either you need to call D* for an upgrade or make several more purchases to get the HR22 working.

 

[jdspencer]

Besides the hi def receiver requiring the 5lnb dish, your problem is the clip on OTA antenna. They don't do a very good job. And, with the 5LNB dish OTA will require a separate coax run.