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D Plantz
07-19-03, 09:22 PM
I am visiting my parents in CT. My father has an oval dish with 101 and 119 sat on it. I have been trying different multiswiches to get 119 to come in so my father can finally dump comcast and get his locals via sat. I finally got one that worked.

I changed the multiswich and now I am getting only Even transponders on both sats. Also some of the 101 Even transponders have no signal when they had 80+ signal strength.
Many transponders are getting week signal. No odd transponders.
I have a receiver here from my account in Boston. I used to get my locals here and now there gone. I am not shure if my fathers dish has bad cables, a bad lnb or what?
I have never seen the odd transponders go dead all the sudden.

Any ideas? Could the dish need to be re-amed or does it sound like an lnb partially went bad.

waydwolf
07-20-03, 04:52 PM
Likely the multiswitch or LNB went bad. They switch over to the even transponders when approximately 18VDC is applied to the line, and sometimes they stay stuck in the switched state.