D1000 signal?

[chastulsa]

Well, Dish forgot to ship my 622 and when the installer came, it wasnt here, I asked him about my 129 signal that goes from 65% to 0% he said everyone trhey do has a weak signal. My is unwatchable at times. Maybe they are to lazy to move it?

Any suggestions?

edited because spelling

 

[toto]

What's your location? Whats your signal strength on 119?

 

[chastulsa]

I am in zip 74006 (Bartlesville, OK)

signal doesnt stay locked jumps around between 0-65% mostly in the 44 range, 110 and 119 are in the upper 90's

 

[toto]

I'm in Topeka about do north 110 miles or so. My signal is lower on 129 than 110 or 119, but only about 10 points below 110. If you get the strongest signal you can on 119, 129 should come in much stronger than the signal you're getting. Will check mine tonight and post tommorrow.

 

[Van]

I'm in Topeka about do north 110 miles or so. My signal is lower on 129 than 110 or 119, but only about 10 points below 110. If you get the strongest signal you can on 119, 129 should come in much stronger than the signal you're getting. Will check mine tonight and post tommorrow.

Your best bet is to tune in the dish with the 129 sat, not the 119 or 110 because as long as your mast is plumb and your dish is to specks then tuning in the 129 will tune in the weakest signal of the bunch and you can expect to have %75 - %85 on the 129 with the 110 and 119 with ranges of %90 - %105 respectfully.

You said that the 622 is not installed, you have also said that 129 is unwatchable, and you said that the signal goes from %65 to 0.

(1) if you dont have your 622 then how are you watching anying on the 129 sat?

(2) see (1)

(3) is this on single transponder that your watching or is this a general listing of all transponders such as transponder 1 has %0, transponder 2 has %60, 3 %68, ect ect ect, the details are in the pudding. Edit, ok just to be clearer, lets say transponder 2 is showing %65 and suddenly drops to %0, is that what your referring to? If so then you have an equipment issue most likely.

 

[chastulsa]

Your best bet is to tune in the dish with the 129 sat, not the 119 or 110 because as long as your mast is plumb and your dish is to specks then tuning in the 129 will tune in the weakest signal of the bunch and you can expect to have %75 - %85 on the 129 with the 110 and 119 with ranges of %90 - %105 respectfully.

You said that the 622 is not installed, you have also said that 129 is unwatchable, and you said that the signal goes from %65 to 0.

(1) if you dont have your 622 then how are you watching anying on the 129 sat?

(2) see (1)

(3) is this on single transponder that your watching or is this a general listing of all transponders such as transponder 1 has %0, transponder 2 has %60, 3 %68, ect ect ect, the details are in the pudding.

I get about the same signal strength on all xponders, with my 942

 

[mdonnelly]

I get about the same signal strength on all xponders, with my 942

I'm near OKC, and my 129 transponders are all over the map, from low 60s to low 80s, with a vip211. As I remember, the best is TP12, at ~80.

 

[Darrell S]

I live in the north central part of TX. I get 90-100 on 119. 85-90 on 110. Those sats stay consistant. I don't have a HD box so I only pay attention to tp. 7 on 129. I get my SD locals from that tp. It varies from 65 to 80, but I never lose my signal on my locals.

 

[tshaheen]

I'm in Orange County, CA and I've had the techs out here 3 times to try and improve my 129 signal, especially on tp 8. So far the best they've been able to achieve is around 60. During some recent rain storms, I lost my signal multiple times (box locked up around a signal strength of 45). All the techs have told me this is the best I'm going to get in SoCal and this is a known problem.

Fortunately it shouldn't be raining much more here for the next 6 months, but I've already put dish on notice that if they don't have a resolution to this problem by next winter, I'll be canceling my account and declining to pay the termination fee.

 

[Nicu]

I'm in Buena Park, OC, Southern Cal. I had a Dish500 installed today just for satellite 129 and the signal strength is pretty low:

transp 3: 50
transp 6: 57
transp 8: 51
transp 11: 53
transp 19: 70
transp 23: 71
transp 30: 76
transp 31: 76

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[toto]

I forgot to check last night on the 622. When I installed the 1000 in January my signal strength was between the high 60s an mid 80s (on an 811) I set the unit on a pole replacing a Dish 500. The instructions said to hook up 119 only and peak and then ad 110 &129. Being old, not a tech, no meter, having to travel to the basement too check signals and having only 45 minutes of daylight caused me to alter instructions. I marked the pole, where the 500 had been, hooked up all three sats and peaked on 119. Worked fine. And you're more like 150miles due south.