re-aligning Dish after a big move

Hi all-

I have recently moved cross country, and i'm trying to realign my Dish. I have Dish ViP722 receiver, with the 1000.2 dish / lnb. I have used dishpointer.com to find all the relevant angles.

I've got it all hooked up and i get good (i think) signals from each satellite, 110, 119, and 129. Depending on the transponder, the Point Dish dialog is giving me signal strengths in the 60-70's for 110 and 119. Though some transponders are in the 30's- is that normal?

129 is a bit weird, most transponders have a strength of 125(!), but a couple are in the 30's. Some start at 20 and a few seconds later jump to 125 and then are stable. And some are 0. This one doesn't feel right.

While the system tells me all satellites are locked, it only gives me the name of the satellite on certain transponders. 110 needs to be on transponder 12, 119 needs to be on transponder 1. 129 needs to be on transponder 4.

So because signal strengths are good, i think my alignment is ok, or at least close. But when i run a Check Switch and Test, and it tells me it has found fewer satellites than before. Since the configuration should be exactly the same as before (only difference are dish angles), i've told it not to save it.

And when i go back to the initial startup page "Acquiring Signal- This should take no more than 5 minutes to complete..." it is just stuck here, never getting signal.

Anyways, something isn't quite right but i can't figure out what. Any thoughts or advice from anyone? Thanks in advance for your help!


-Fizz

 

Hi all-
I moved from west coast to PA. But i am still targetting the western arc.
-Fizz

 

Sorry, was getting rushed out the door at the time.

I'm in Harrisburg, so i'm not sure what market i'd be in. When i put my Dish on hold and told them where i was moving, the customer rep told me that i'd not need any new equipment, dish included. This to me suggested that they're ok with me continuing to point at the western arc satellites. I'm ok with this as i wanted to keep in touch with my Cali stations. But if i have to change, i have to- i'll just get the new lnb and repoint.

Fortunately, i think i have resolved it. I did a hard reset of my box and that seems to have corrected the weird signal issues. All signal strengths are around 50-60 and pretty consistent, and the dish now recognizes them on bootup and has succesfully downloaded the pvr listing. So now i just need to contact Dish and sort out the details and get it reactivated.

Thanks for all the input!

-Fizz