Self Install???

[texas arsenal]

I had the 5lnb dish installed Saturday and am not very happy with it. I want to move it. How hard is this to do? My biggest concern is properly re-alining the dish.

Anyone have any exp doing this?

[litzdog911]

It's not very easy, especially if you've never done one before and don't have specialized signal meters. You can view the video installation instructions here and decide if you're up for it ....

http://www.solidsignal.com/dtvkuka

[litzdog911]

By the way, why do you want to move it? Perhaps the original installers should move it if they messed up something.

[glennb]

I put up my own. I didn't have any specialized signal meters. I used the HR20 signal strength meter. Everything went fine.

[Mertzen]

I put up my own. I didn't have any specialized signal meters. I used the HR20 signal strength meter. Everything went fine.

How long did it take you though?

[litzdog911]

I put up my own. I didn't have any specialized signal meters. I used the HR20 signal strength meter. Everything went fine.

Was this your first 5-LNB dish installation? Congratulations if it was .... your experience was not typical.

[Endor]

I just replaced my old and trusty single LNB (circa 1997 round dish) with a Slimline 5LNB yesterday afternoon. I did a self-install... and yes, it is certainly more difficult then the older dishes when you don't have a fancy signal meter.

I watched the video and said, "Don't need those, I got the signal meters on the HR20! Worked for me with the round dish..."

Well, gotcha... I found that the HR20 signal strength meters seem to be a bit buggy. I wasted a lot of time changing azimuth and waiting for the signal strength meter to respond, and it never did.

Back and forth slowly... nothing. :nono2:

As a last resort, I used one of those analog satellite meters. That worked... once I got a good strong peak on the analog meter, I disconnected it and reset the HR20. Finally showed some life, and about 80% signal, which I fine-tuned from there.

Long story short: it can be done fairly quickly with a $20 analog meter and a fair amount of patience.

[glennb]

It didn't take me that long to do it with the HR20 as the signal meter either.

I'm getting about 80% signal.

I'm not sure what you mean about waiting for the signal strength meter on the HR20 to respond. It's not instantaneous, but I never noticed a big delay of any kind.

[glennb]

Was this your first 5-LNB dish installation? Congratulations if it was .... your experience was not typical.

I've installed single LNB dishes and 3 LNB dishes in the past.

This was my first 5 LNB experience. Other people have reported here in the past having the same not ypical results.