New 3LNB Odd Behavior

[tonyd79]

I am having some issues with trees and things that are causing my 99 signal to go pretty low.

I called DirecTV to have a guy come out and move the dish a few feet to clear the trees. He didn't think that would help but did a whole bunch of other maintenance and improved the signal quite a bit (still not great...I have some tree trimming to do).

He installed a new ground block and did a bunch of rewiring and put in a new LNB. I told him I didn't need 110 or 119 so a 3LNB would be okay. So, he put one in. (Wow! That thing is a lot smaller!)

He reset one of the DVRs to choice 17 (a 3LNB) but not the other two. For some reason, I am still getting signal readings on all 5 slots including 110 and 119. That is odd itself.

Fox Sports Espanol (which I think is on one of them) is missing from the reconfigured system but is live on the others. But I am getting Nick Jr on it!

Is this some anomaly because of mixed configuration or what?

[evan_s]

The short answer is yes that is all pretty much expected. You won't be able to get Fox Sports Espanol with a SL3 and you need to change the settings on all the other receivers for them to work correctly.

[ABQNM]

Most Spanish programming comes in on the 119 satellite. So the receiver that is configured correctly ignores all channels that come in on 119 which is why you do not see it at all. On the others, the receiver is sending the voltage and signal required to switch the 119 satellite to the correct transponder, but since it is not there, the receiver sees whatever happens to use that voltage/signal configuration on that transponder from one of the other satellites, hence the random channel you see.

So basically, change the configuration on the other receivers and you will not get that channel at all. The only way to get it back is with a 5 lnb.