[J Rath]

Anybody know what's up with Dish this morning (or maybe more appropriate, what's down!)? Apparently all or most transponders went down on both 110 and 119 birds shortly after 4am EDT this morning. There is signal on most of them now but apparently nothing is being uplinked cause I'm getting nothing for channels or guide data.

 

[TimL]

Was recording To Tell the Truth on Game Show Network about 4:20 AM.was recording fine on the 501...went to bed and checked The 301..Everything seemed dead back to the 501..the recording stopped at 4:19 AM.Checked outside wiring..all seems ok on this end..wonder what is going on?

 

[J Rath]

Now I'm receiving signal on what should be spotbeam transponders on 119. Normally I have no signal on transponders 1, 3 and 9

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Well after further review I'm only receiving those on my 3800 which I happened to do a switch test on when this happened, thinking it might be the switch. The 3800 now thinks there is no switch since I done that and right before I did I noticed both 110 and 119 showed "Wrong Sat" on the dish setup screen. My 2700 shows no signal on those transponders and also "Wrong Sat" for all transponders.

 

[TimL]

Transponders 5 and 7 were giving me a huge signal (110+) Where I usually dont get a signal at all here in Ohio.Read elsewhere that the Dish Call Centers are getting swamped.

Tim Lones
Canton, Ohio

 

[J Rath]

Looks like right now just the 3 minute PPV guide channels and channel 9900 (D500) are working

 

[Nick]

Cheyenne Radar

 

[John Corn]

I'm having the same problem, all my channels are gone?

I just rebooted the 721 and now my 110 and 119 channels are back. Something weird happened at Dish?

My receiving Info light on the 721 is staying on?

 

[Robert F. O'Connor]

I only turned on my 501 after noticing this thread and haven't seen any problems. I did take a quick look at the transponders and see that transponder 5 at 119 is lit up at 125 signal strength. That's been 0 since the spotbeams started to come on and as recently as the last day or two.

That should be our second spotbeam here in Northern California, though the installation screen still says "Transponder" rather than "Spotbeam". I guess that amounts to a switch they can turn off and on.

Nick, is Cheyenne an uplink location? If so, don't they have backup uplink capability?

-Robert

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The only channels I am getting are the free ones. ALl the other subscirtion channels are not even listed in my guide.

If I try going to Channel 105 or 300 (both I subscribe to) I get a message telling me I must subscribe.

 

[Chris Blount]

Woke up this morning and only my local channels on 110 were gone. Checked my system, found nothing wrong. Called Dish and couldn't get through because their tech support was overloaded with calls. I guess we know where the problem is.

 

[Richard King]

All appears normal here, but I don't have locals turned on so can't speak for them.

 

[Robert F. O'Connor]

I'm getting everything including locals, both from 119 and 148. My 501 was turned off before about 4:30 pt, though.

Could this have been an anti-piracy measure that got out of hand?

-Robert

 

[Nick]

It took me over 3 hrs (4:40 to 7:50 ET) to get everything back on including Hotlanta locals. I'm thankful we have DBS boards to compare notes, otherwise I would have gone nuts trying to figure this stuff out for myself. :bang:

"Nick, is Cheyenne an uplink location? If so, don't they have backup uplink capability?"

Cheyenne, WY is primary, Gilbert, CO is backup. I don't have a clue why Gilbert didn't light up -- does anyone know?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Ok an update here, all my receivers are working fine except for my 721 which appears to have lost authorization.

I have been trying to get through but its Busy Busy Busy.

 

[J Rath]

Scott, I don't know if this will help your 721 or not, but my 2700 looked the same way this morning (only FTA channels). I pulled the smart card and put it back and everything came back.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

J Rath I tried that and even sat through one of those long 721 switch checks.

I am at work now, I hope it will be fixed by the time I get home.

 

[J Rath]

I figured you might have but I thought I'd ask!

 

[Doug E]

Ok, I think I know what is going on. During the night, they transferred a number of channels from Echo 6 to Echo 7. Check this out: http://www.satcodx6.com/2410/eng/

 

[J Rath]

I thought everything was already moved off E6?

 

[Doug E]

Apparently they moved many of them last night, according to Satco and Lyngsat