OTA on dish Hopper/Joey

[tcpuccio1]

Ok have had dish for 2 weeks now and I have to say I really do like it. I think the recivers are better then direcTV I had them for 9 years and made the switch like other have and went backto dish who I had 20 years ago. Ok now for the question when I set up the account with my local installer he priced out my account and I'm saving $50+ a month from what direcTV jacked up my rate to, when he came to install it have said Oh you have an OTA antenna I should have asked you when I set up the account I can save you an extra $12.00 a month I added local's into your programming. so I removed it from the account and I got the dish OTA adaptor I did the merge to the program guide all is well every once in a while it starts to buffer and say signal is lost?? shows the signal in yellow at 88% and says weak??? I have a splitter and it runs directly to my TV as well and the TV if I switch it to OTA the signal is fine and the picture is great.. I have an OTA adaptor from DirecTV and tried that as well and it does the same thing it just out of the blue starts to buffer and loose the signal... What gives? is that a normal characteristic of this set up? the OTA signal has been rock solid for years it's an omni antenna and I never have to touch it the other TV's in the house have a great signal going right into the back of the TV like my Main TV does. looking for Idea's

 

[HipKat]

Ok have had dish for 2 weeks now and I have to say I really do like it. I think the recivers are better then direcTV I had them for 9 years and made the switch like other have and went backto dish who I had 20 years ago. Ok now for the question when I set up the account with my local installer he priced out my account and I'm saving $50+ a month from what direcTV jacked up my rate to, when he came to install it have said Oh you have an OTA antenna I should have asked you when I set up the account I can save you an extra $12.00 a month I added local's into your programming. so I removed it from the account and I got the dish OTA adaptor I did the merge to the program guide all is well every once in a while it starts to buffer and say signal is lost?? shows the signal in yellow at 88% and says weak??? I have a splitter and it runs directly to my TV as well and the TV if I switch it to OTA the signal is fine and the picture is great.. I have an OTA adaptor from DirecTV and tried that as well and it does the same thing it just out of the blue starts to buffer and loose the signal... What gives? is that a normal characteristic of this set up? the OTA signal has been rock solid for years it's an omni antenna and I never have to touch it the other TV's in the house have a great signal going right into the back of the TV like my Main TV does. looking for Idea's

I think it's just gotta be a given that the TV Tuners built into the Hopper are just not that good. Mine does it, and others have posted the same thing on here

 

[DJ Lon]

I think it's just gotta be a given that the TV Tuners built into the Hopper are just not that good. Mine does it, and others have posted the same thing on here

Agreed. I lose signal and the strength changes all the time with the OTA adapter. The only consistency I have is KAZT-CD which is always at 82% and KPHO-5 which is always at 100%. Apart from the VHF-hi stations (8, 10, 12), everyone else here is UHF and ranges from 95% to 74%...and if it rains, forget about the UHFs LOL