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09-15-03, 10:48 AM
I have not yet signed up for the HD pack because I wanted to be sure I could get an acceptable signal. I have a Dish 500, and a 6000 with the psk module.
I have always had trouble getting a good signal from the 110 degree transponders coming off Echostar 8. I don't have the same trouble with the transponders coming from E6, which is also at 110. No amount of fiddling with my dish has ever cured this (tried again yesterday for a couple hours). Tweaked as well as I can do it, the best I can get is signals in the low to mid 50s for those transponders. Conversely, I get good solid signals in the mid 60s, low 70s for the E6 transponders, and I can easily get into the 80s or above for the 119 birds.
Unfortunately, the HD channels will be coming form transponders 7 and 17, both on E8. Yesterday I started getting a signal from those transponders, but they are even more attenuated than the others. I can do no better than low to mid 40s, which won't even lock the signal consistently. I'm hoping that they are bringing these transponders up to full power slowly, because at this level, forget it.
Can anyone explain what might be going on here? Are E8 and E6 far enough apart in the sky that some stray branch (a long way away, in my case) could cause such a difference?
I have always had trouble getting a good signal from the 110 degree transponders coming off Echostar 8. I don't have the same trouble with the transponders coming from E6, which is also at 110. No amount of fiddling with my dish has ever cured this (tried again yesterday for a couple hours). Tweaked as well as I can do it, the best I can get is signals in the low to mid 50s for those transponders. Conversely, I get good solid signals in the mid 60s, low 70s for the E6 transponders, and I can easily get into the 80s or above for the 119 birds.
Unfortunately, the HD channels will be coming form transponders 7 and 17, both on E8. Yesterday I started getting a signal from those transponders, but they are even more attenuated than the others. I can do no better than low to mid 40s, which won't even lock the signal consistently. I'm hoping that they are bringing these transponders up to full power slowly, because at this level, forget it.
Can anyone explain what might be going on here? Are E8 and E6 far enough apart in the sky that some stray branch (a long way away, in my case) could cause such a difference?