No 119

[LowPingBoy]

Just did an upgrade that included a SL-5-SWM LNB with appropriate power inserter. Using an Acrutrac III+ connected to an ASL-1 I peaked the 101 as instructed and then moved to the 119 port. Nothing. Ran the dish through the entire tilt range and the signal never changed - had the meter set to check Ka103 and Ku119. Kind of fed up but went ahead and did the dither setup anyway. Just used the tilt value from the old dish.

Ran the ODU to my splitter, empty ports terminated, power inserter hooked up, and fed it to a HR22. Ran through the checking for satellites screen and bingo watching TV. Checked my signal strength - all great, 95+ for the most part, but 0 on 119. However, I can not find one damned channel I am missing. Well, the 70s are gone but they are fine on the new channels.

So, what am I missing in terms of programming? My only thought is that 119 is being phased out, I don't need it and the new LNB knows all of that.

Thanks a lot.

LPB

[Mertzen]

You're only missing out on legacy HD. Other stuff one 119 is SD locals, chinese and spanish. Maybe a LOS issue ?

[harsh]

There's a pretty good chance that there will be program guide issues.

Is this for your personal installation or are you doing this for someone else?

[Mertzen]

There's a pretty good chance that there will be program guide issues.

Ah yes, forgot that. Solution: tune to SD channel overnight.

[BattleZone]

Just used the tilt value from the old dish.


If that was an old Phase III "triple-sat" dish, then you're using the wrong tilt for the Slimline. Your receiver should give you the correct value; punch in your zip in the Dish setup.

Either you've got a line-of-site problem to 119, or a bad LNB. This will cause a guide data issue, though, so it needs to be adressed. Most likely, you could just get an SL3 LNB, which has no LNBs for 110 or 119, and has a different stack plan in the switch to pull guide data from 101 at all times. Swap out the LNB and you're all set.

[LowPingBoy]

Doing this for myself. Dish I used for the tilt reference is a Slimline 5-LNB. In fact the one that the HR22 was formerly connected to.

Haven't noticed a guide issue but I'll put it to bed tonight on an SD channel. Just set it up Saturday and it retained the guide from before.

No LOS problem at all.

So maybe I get back to Solid Signal and see if they will replace the part.

Thanks all for the suggestions.

LPB

[RobertE]

Won't be any guide issues with the SWM LNB. The guide info is always available off of 101 with the SWM stack plan.