Have DishPro Plus Echostar hardware, and everything has been replaced from the LNBF to the receiver. However I am still having very brief, one second or so, loss of signal incidents - up to 10-12 times an hour. What seems to be unique about it, is that it is HD channels only, and the signal strength is very strong. It is right at full scale (100) or very close (98). I have caught the dropout while watching the signal strength screen a few times. It essentially goes from 100 to zero and Not Locked for a second and then back to 100 and Locked again. The signal does not deteriorate down to 80 or 70 and then go to zero. It simply goes directly to zero and Not Locked, and then back to 100 again just as fast.
Any thoughts on what can cause a problem with these characteristics? Almost everything I have found on the subject seems to assume dropouts are caused by a weak signal. This does not seem to be the root cause. It is almost if there is something else other than signal strength that causes the signal to be locked, and that part is lost.
Any thoughts on what can cause a problem with these characteristics? Almost everything I have found on the subject seems to assume dropouts are caused by a weak signal. This does not seem to be the root cause. It is almost if there is something else other than signal strength that causes the signal to be locked, and that part is lost.