Statement from Dish on 110 Issues

[Scott Greczkowski]

Just got the following from Steve Caulk of Echostar about the problems with the 110 satellite.

We experienced an anomaly on EchoStar 8 that caused some disruption of service to some

customers in the middle of the night. All service has been restored.

 

[SpenceJT]

whew! Thanks for the update Scott. I was dreading having to return home to a 2.5 year old that might not be able to watch cartoons!

 

[Mr Tony]

Minneapolis must have been resolved before 11 Central or my Grandma would have called me hollerin because she couldnt watch her soap

 

[fpajerski]

In the Sacramento area, I've still got numerous channels on 110 transponders having "no signal" as of 1530 PDT. One important example is ch 151 (OLN) on 110 #27. I talked to two tech reps about 1315 PDT, and neither had any info on what had happened or what would happen. Their only suggestion to me was to call back in several hours if still a problem.

I have stepped thru my channels from 3 to 500 and 9000-9999. More than twenty have "no signal". They are all on 110, and are on transponders 03, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31. The system-info display reports a signal for both 110 and 119, and the check-switch test runs OK. The signal-strength meter is "0" for those of my "no signal" channels that I checked. I did all these tests with the DishTV rep on the line per his direction, and just repeated them now. Time to call DISH again.

 

[BFG]

Woah I go to bed early and things go crazy. I had no clue about any 110 problems until I finally found a 6 page thread here and a 10 page thread at ...

 

[fpajerski]

About 0040PDT 21Jul, 110 transponders 03,23,25,27,29,31 went from a zero to a 5x signal strength on my 508 in the Sacramento area, and I no longer have a loss-of-signal on 20+ channels. My actions in the prior 24 hours such as "test switch" and power-off/on resets had no effect on this problem.

So my timer will happily pop at 0530 this morning on Lance and Stage 18 ... OLN on 110 T27.

 

[ride525]

Will Dish offer a refund for this lack of service of 110 going out?

There was a lot I could not watch.