Help the Newbie with Dish

[Lonergr66]

I have read through many post but can't find my exact answer sorry. I have Dish Network and a spare DishHD, with two LNBs I don't know if this is a 500 or 1000 or super maybe someone can tell me. I am trying to connect a 211K but cannot find a signal. I have read about covering one LNB up with foil, and try transponder 11 on Sat 119. I find a signal but then I get the error,"wrong satelite 72.7" or something like that. Any tips?

 

[raoul5788]

to Satelliteguys Lonergr66!
I've moved this to the Dish forum, hopefully you will get an answer soon.

 

[Lonergr66]

Gracias

 

[osumike]

Can you post a picture of the dish and lnb you're using? And if you're looking for the 119 sat, and are picking up the 72, you need to swing your dish way to the right, to the southwest sky, not southeast.

 

[Jim5506]

Maybe the first thing to do is to disconnect the dish, run a check switch to clear the matrix (deletes all memorized satellites) then reconnect the dish and try to find 119.

 

[Lonergr66]

OK finally had time to get back on this I have a VIP211K and this dish in the pic... Are they compatible?

 

[Lonergr66]

Maybe this pic upload will work

 

[osumike]

That'll definitely work with the 211. It's setup for the 61.5, and 72.7 sats, but why are you blocking the 61.5 with foil?

 

[osumike]

I think you need to pull the foil off and run a check switch. Let us know the results.

 

[Lonergr66]

Read through a bunch of post an I was desparate so I tried the foil, I took this dish of of one of my other properties almost exactly 150miles due west of here so I assumed all I had to do was rotate the dish a bit but then I saw a bunch of post about finding 119.... what is the model of my dish? 500 or 1000?
thanks a bunch

 

[Lonergr66]

I can get 75% when I have the reciever on Sat 72 but I get error Wrong Sat EchoStar West 77. the dish is pointed slightly southeast

 

[osumike]

This is a 1000.2 dish. Southeast is correct. Try lowering the elevation a little, and swinging to the left a bit.

 

[TheKrell]

I call that a 1000.2 with dual LNB for 61.5 and 72. You need to point farther east.

 

[osumike]

Do you know how to run check switch?

 

[Lonergr66]

yes I did that already but I will run it again

 

[Lonergr66]

What transponder should i be on?

 

[osumike]

What transponder should i be on?

That doesn't matter. Mostly want to know the results of the switch test, so you can figure out which way the dish needs pointed.

 

[TheKrell]

That doesn't matter.

IMHO a strong transponder might help him tweak that dish. I wasted about 4 hrs trying to point a D500 for my mother at 61.5 for Sky Angel using a Dish 4900 receiver. I couldn't find the damn sat to save my life! It turns out that the first few transponders had been converted to 8PSK while I wasn't looking. I wound up hiring a pro who had it peaked in about 5 minutes.

 

[osumike]

IMHO a strong transponder might help him tweak that dish. I wasted about 4 hrs trying to point a D500 for my mother at 61.5 for Sky Angel using a Dish 4900 receiver. I couldn't find the damn sat to save my life! It turns out that the first few transponders had been converted to 8PSK while I wasn't looking. I wound up hiring a pro who had it peaked in about 5 minutes.

I assume he's asking about changing transponders on the check switch/point dish screen. That really makes no difference. I'm just wanting to know what sats he's actually currently pointed at, so I can direct him from there. When I'm pointing a dish with my meter, then yes, I do manually check different transponders.

 

[Lonergr66]

Success, ran the check switch again and moved farther east but couldn't get a signal that was over 30 but it works. That sat is hard to find....

thanks to all