Question about Capturing 3 Satellites With DP Plus

[56Nomad]

We do quite a bit of RVing and in the past have used a Dish 500 and were able to access Satellites 110 and 119 without problem.

We now have a DP Plus Dish and a VIP612 receiver to take on the road. The Dish Network installer told us that all I needed to do is capture satellite 119 with the DP Plus dish and we'd also get 110 and 129.

No problems with capturing 110 and 119 but 129 remains elusive.

With the fact that the DP Plus Dish has 4 cable connectors on it, I'm wondering if I have to have two separate cables running directly from the dish to the receiver instead of have one input cable connected to the DP Plus SEPARATOR?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[HIFI]

whats your switch matrix show in order?

 

[56Nomad]

whats your switch matrix show in order?

Ouch.... I don't have it hooked up now

Is the switch matrix the screen showing the green boxes filled?

 

[HIFI]

yep! should be 119,110.129. I'm just assuming that you have it misaligned and are seeing 110 and 119 in that order,if so make sure the skew is set right,drop your elevation 4 degrees and nudge back to the west

 

[56Nomad]

I was thinking that I would swap the LNB's on the DP Plus Dish on our house roof as that
dish is dialed in with all three birds. Perhaps one of the LNB'S is faulty on the dish we use for the RV

 

[HIFI]

possible

 

[KKlare]

Check, I think one of those connectors is an input for another Dish LNB.
-Ken

 

[56Nomad]

Check, I think one of those connectors is an input for another Dish LNB.
-Ken

"one of those connectors" ? do you mean one of those four on the LNB head?

I don't follow

 

[Mr Tony]

yes
check on the LNB...one of them says "input"

 

[56Nomad]

yes
check on the LNB...one of them says "input"

Do you mean that I should hook up the cable to the input with the red arrow as opposed to where it is now on #1

 

[Mr Tony]

no
The input is for something else

You have the cable hooked in the right spot

 

[56Nomad]

yep! should be 119,110.129. I'm just assuming that you have it misaligned and are seeing 110 and 119 in that order,if so make sure the skew is set right,drop your elevation 4 degrees and nudge back to the west

This morning I put it together and this solved the problem!

Thanks so much!