Best transponders to peak to?

[wgeorge]

Peak on spot beam??

Just had a dish for 110 installed, primarily for RFDTV. Installer peaked dish on home xponder. Signal for RFD is weak and is lost during a sprinkle of rain. Would it be better to peak on the RFD transponder (19) instead?? Located in Hawaii.

Thanks

Perhaps I am sugesting the same thing as "iafirebuff" but what I would focus on is to try to increase the signal strength of the lowest TPs instead of getting an extremely high signal on a single TP. In doing this, you do need to know which TPs have the programming that you receive. For example, you are going to get low or no signal on spotbeam TPs not in your area. If you don't get HD or have a MPEG-4 receiver, some TPs will also have a zero signal. You may want to check this website to determine which TPs provide you with programming:

http://ekb.dbstalk.com/dishlist.htm

 

[dishcomm]

Just had a dish for 110 installed, primarily for RFDTV. Installer peaked dish on home xponder. Signal for RFD is weak and is lost during a sprinkle of rain. Would it be better to peak on the RFD transponder (19) instead?? Located in Hawaii.

Thanks

What size dish?

 

[Bountykiller]

always take the weakest. on 110, that would be 3 and 10 for example (low power mode). Anyways unless you have a meter that detects this, or you use the built in meter, you are forced to go with either odd or even or on dishpro a straight 20 volt stack. On 61, take something on rainbow 1 (1,3,5,7, etc) on 119, take odds, on 129 take something non hd (they seem to be a tad lower). You get the idea! ;0

-B

 

[wgeorge]

What size dish?

36 or 38 inch.

 

[wgeorge]

Will give it a shot. Thanks.

 

[Dirk_McGherkin]

peaking on a particular transponder doesn't make sense to me. They're not on different spot beams are they? If a satellite is peaked on one tp then wouldn't it be peaked on all of them on that sat?

 

[Jim5506]

The transponders from a particular satellite are all in the same place in the sky. It makes no difference which transponder you use to peak the dish, if you hit one you hit them all.

 

[Kevin.Snyder]

Dish Network has posted that transponders 14,15,16, and 21 are the transponders that should be checked. Dish's new STBH (Set Top Box Health) program checks these specific transponders for low signals. Should they read a low signal on these transponders 3 times in a row, they will automatically generate a trouble call.

Thanks,

Kevin

 

[Smith P.]

We can check if it that exactly transponders, but before we discussed - if you get on 'home' tpn low signal, you would miss SW updates, will have unreliable guide, etc.

As to picking that lowest level tpn for pick your dish(s), that common sense knowledge.