Losing 129 daily

[stugots48]

I have a Dish 500 locked in on 61.5 and a Dish 1000 locked in on 110 and 129. They both connect into a large DP 44 switch located under the roof eve. Everything worked great when I had a VIP 622 in the living room, a 510 hooked into a DPP 44 switch in another room and a 508 in the garage. When I replaced the 510 with a 622 I moved the DPP 44 switch out to the garage off of the 508. Everything appeared to work fine. Not long after that I started losing my lock on Satellite 129 on a daily basis. I went into the info screen when that happened and saw that I had no signal from 129. After doing a reset on the front panel, 129 would come back and usually work fine for a day. Sometimes it would take a couple of resets to come back. Any ideas?

 

[alk753]

I have a Dish 500 locked in on 61.5 and a Dish 1000 locked in on 110 and 129. They both connect into a large DP 44 switch located under the roof eve. Everything worked great when I had a VIP 622 in the living room, a 510 hooked into a DPP 44 switch in another room and a 508 in the garage. When I replaced the 510 with a 622 I moved the DPP 44 switch out to the garage off of the 508. Everything appeared to work fine. Not long after that I started losing my lock on Satellite 129 on a daily basis. I went into the info screen when that happened and saw that I had no signal from 129. After doing a reset on the front panel, 129 would come back and usually work fine for a day. Sometimes it would take a couple of resets to come back. Any ideas?

If the other sats are doing well and 129 has problems on all receivers, I'd start by verifying the cabling and grounding to 129.

Are you not running 119 at all???

 

[RandallA]

Since this started when you moved receivers around.

Is the power inserter on port 1? Are there any diplexers involved on port 1?

 

[stugots48]

I am running 119. I do have it coming out of port 1 on the DP 44. I looked into it more after work and I see that I lost 129 on only one of my 622's. After running a check switch on that 622 I have 129 back again. ???

 

[RandallA]

I mean port 1 for the output for the receivers not the input for the satellites. You must have the power inserter on port 1 to provide power to the switch and lnbs.

 

[stugots48]

Yes I did know what you meant. It is on port one of the output to the receivers.

 

[stugots48]

I just wanted to close this problem out. My signal strength on 129 was only 55. I had a dish tech out Sunday and he adjusted my dish so I now have a strength of 75 on 129 and 90 or higher on the others. So far all looks great.

 

[Jared Twomey]

are you getting a good signal on 119 and 110, if not the dish maybe out of line and getting so weak of a signal on 129 that the receiver is dropping it all together