Signal Strength

geo1406

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Oct 15, 2005
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What should signal strength be for sat 110/ I have 3 and sometimes 4 transponders at 62 to 65 all the time, and a slight rain will knock tv off. What to do?
 
IF It is not all transponders it also could be a bad lnb. if 119 signal strength is good 100 or better, than your skew could be off as well
 
you should deffintley be higher than that. alignment or a defective LNB/switch could be the issue.
 
Yeah. I’m in MN and my numbers are 110+ so looks like the dish needs to be tweaked a little bit (moved a little left or right)
 
geo1406 said:
I am in Dubuque, Iowa. TP 11 and 12 are in the low 80's . I have Dish 500.
Thank's...
Is this just for 110 or are these also the numbers you are getting for 119?
 
Just for reference, the old "100" standard doesn't seem to apply any more. Different receiver models are showing lower numbers nowadays. Dunno why, but I DO know how to peak a dish, and there's too many times I haven't been able to get above the 90's when I balance 110 & 119.
 
Only time Im not able to get a dish peaked past 100 is when Im upgrading old legacy systems to dish 500's. Thing is is that older legacy receivers tend to not show a true signal strength, Ive checked this out by taking out a 3700 and putting in a 311, the signal went from 96 to 120 or so.
 
I have an old dishplayer 7200 (i think) hooked up to a legacy dish 500 with 2 sw21's. I get a signal strrength of 81 on 119 tp 11 and 55 on 110 tp 11. I have disconnected my 7200 and hooked up my 522 (usually hooked up to a different dish with dp equip) to this same dish, and strengths are ususally above 100 for both. Go figure!
 
The old Legacy receivers, even though the meter goes to 125, maxes out at 100

I have an old 5000 that my spotbeams max at 101 (my 301 pegs at 125)
most signals are around 75-80 on the 5000 :)
 
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