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[larryf]

After losing power for 25 hrs. Ifind I can't get a few channels including 122,124,138,140,142,144,153,etc. Is this alinghment or the receivers? we had a storm Monday.

 

[bookworm370]

The guide loads as it spools and not as one piece. Give it a little time and I bet the channels will pop up.

 

[larryf]

It has been a full day and no improvement. Have tried a couple of hard resets.

 

[lucky86]

I'm pretty certain the channel numbers should still be there after the guide download, maybe no info a few days out as it fills in but the channels shouldn't be missing. I would run a checkswitch and verify signal and then back out and let the guide redownload fully.

 

[larryf]

Numbers are still in guide, but when I turn to the channel, I get full signal loss message. I am getting some channels on 119, but not all.

 

[lucky86]

I would go to the point dish screen and look at 119 ts 19, 110 ts 16, 129 ts 21. I would also check a few other transponders but I would be willing to bet your dish is out of alignment.

 

[larryf]

119-19=15, 110-16=20, 129-21=55. Is this an adjustment up/down or left/right as 129 is the strongest?

 

[lucky86]

The majority of the movement will most likely need to be to the left towards 110 until you find a good balance between all 3.

 

[larryf]

adjusted the dish and am now getting the channels. Readings are as follows 119-19=43, 110-16=54, 129-21=33. Do i need to rotate the dish some more?

 

[lucky86]

I would go to point dish and enter your zipcode and get the pointing angles and try to match that and get the signal as high as possible on all the sats but that isn't horrible.

 

[larryf]

Thanks lucky86, I will play around with it a bit.