Moved my dish and I have a question about my signal strengths

[lawr1000]

About a month ago I upgraded from an HR10-250 to a new Slimline and HR20-700 all was great until our first storm when we started getting 710 error (i think) on a lot of channels. Turns out since everything is bigger on the Slimline dish that it flopped around badly in it old dish location.

So this weekend I moved the dish to a pole mount about 10 fteet from the house. Using the HR21's signal meter I tuned my dish including fine adjustment. I seem to have good signal strength but I not sure about some of the low values on 99, 119 and 103(s). Below are my satellite readings and I live in Central Texas. Are they good enough?


Sat 101
01-08 097 097 097 000 000 100 097 100
09-16 098 098 097 100 098 100 097 100
17-24 097 000 000 100 096 100 096 100
25-32 096 099 096 098 097 100 095 100

Sat 110
01-08 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 095
09-16 --- 088 --- 094 --- --- --- ---

Sat 119
01-08 --- --- --- --- --- 100 000 000
09-16 064 100 100 100 000 000 000

Sat 99
01-08 000 000 100 040 034 068 --- ---

Sat 103(s)
01-08 000 000 000 000 000 000 --- ---
09-16 --- --- --- --- --- --- 098 086
17-24 096 098 085 091 074 000 097 095

Sat 103(c)
01-08 095 095 095 094 092 093 094 092
09-16 092 092 095 093 094 095 --- ---
17-24 096 --- --- --- --- 095 --- ---

[Randall DBS]

Looks really good, the low values you are seeing are spotbeams. Thats normal.

[litzdog911]

Yep, those readings are great. Good job!

[lawr1000]

Thanks guys!

I think DirecTV did a good job on the Slimline dish. The alignment procedure was straight forward and not that difficult even with my two young (5 and 8) helpers fightling over who gets to call out the numbers.

[litzdog911]

It's nice to have "helpers"!

[seltech]

Help is awesome. A little trick i use (i have a pole mount 75ft from my home) i call my cell phone from my house phone and put the reciever on a particular transponder to get the signal strength (so it makes that loud beeping noise when you got a good signal) put the phone near the tv. Go outside with the cell phone on speaker and point away :) I find this usefull for really nailing down the 103 and 99 sats after you get a good signal on the 101 :D Just pick a transponder on the 103 (not a spotbeam lol) and peak it