Newbie needing help receiving Canadian Sat service in LA

[porschenut]

Hi,

I need some help with my setup. I have lived in Los Angeles for more than 20 years and miss Canadian TV. My brother who is now a snowbird (Canadian living in Florida for the winter months) gave me a Bell 4100 receiver with a card. He says that it is active and has used it in Florida on his subscription. I have another friend here that gave me a Dish Network dish and dual LNB. I hooked it all up and aligned dish to receive Nimiq1 on 82 at 80% power but it is not locked. I received 91 intermittently at 78% strength but it never locks and the signal strength meter bounces to zero every second or so.

Can anyone help me? It would really be appreciated. I actually miss the CBC.

 

[bigrich]

You will not receive anything on 82 that far south, no matter how large the dish is. I had to go to a 90cm dish in Indianapolis from a dish 500 when they changed the footprint of the satellite. 91 should come in fine if you aimed correctly. You also may have a bad LNB.

 

[porschenut]

Big rich,

Thanks for the response. I may have been mistaken as to which 82 or 91 which was receiving a steady signal. I will check again. I do not understand why the reciever does not lock one the one that has good signal strength.
I will try again.

 

[Mr Tony]

after it locks, do a check switch

better yet...do a check switch with no cable installed. That clears the matrix. After you lock on 91W then redo the check switch.

 

[bayguy]

porschenut if you look at the Sticky thread on Nimiq 82 esp. posting #9 you'll see a map of the 82 bird footprint it only covers about 1/2 the U.S.

we're in the Bay Area and we get 91 great though, so as long as you dont need the HD stations on 82 youll be fine with 91. I think you wont even need a bigger dish.