What Signal Strength Are You Getting

[Guest1]

Hi I was just wondering what signal strength people here are getting?

[TimL]

Depends on how your dishes are set up..on the Regular Transponders I get generally 100-115 and a full 125 on the spotbeams. (Because of locals) I have been told it is good to have at least 80 but the higher signal strength, the less rain/snow fade.

Tim Lones

[Cyclone]

I get:

61.5 ~ 121
110 ~ 110
119 ~ 114

Is that was you wanted?

[MikeP]

Does anybody know at what signal strength you actually start to lose picture with DISH? I know with DirecTV, it varies between 10 and 30 depending on the different transponders.

[Steve Mehs]

In my experience a few months ago, on Dish you lose the lock once the signal strength goes below 40 which is equal to 32%.

For non spotbeams-
On 119 I range from 113-121
on 110 from 108-124
on 61.5 from 83-109

[Bob Haller]

11 & 110 between 120 and 125. I spent hours tweaking things.No make that 8 hours over a period if days:)

Around 50 or so pixels will begin to occur. Loss by 40. These numbers are the last time I checked. I dontr see low numbers like this very often:)

[DarrellP]

40 sounds about right. My 61.5 dish is at an angle of 11 degrees so it's very easy to lose the signal during rain. It seems to hold fairly steady down to 40 then starts to sputter and then gives up alltogether.
My sunny days signal is about 80 on 61.5 with a 24" dish.

[Mike123abc]

I put a 35" dish on 61.5 to stop rain fade. Have not had any yet since the big dish went in. Most transponders on nice days are 120-125. I have 24" dishes on 119/110 and get 115-125 on most transponders.

[johnsmith22]

Lock is lost around 43, anything below 46 suffers from dropouts and is very annoying to watch, transponder 13 on 110 is a case in point, where I am its around 45 with a 6 foot dish.