Troubleshooting simple dish

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HIPAR

Discussion Starter · Dec 11, 2006

I have a simple 18 inch dish here. The signal level is about 90. The receiver test shows 'locked', every other transponder shows zero in the cable test. Consequently, the screen says 'Searching for satellite signal' on most of the channels. Those channels with a picture break up intermittently. So there appears to have been a system failure somewhere.

I unplugged the receiver over night to reset it and that didn't help. Maybe someone has seen this problem before. Any suggestions before I begin troubleshooting?

--- CHAS

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iceman2a

· #2 · Dec 11, 2006

HIPAR said:
I have a simple 18 inch dish here. The signal level is about 90. The receiver test shows 'locked', every other transponder shows zero in the cable test. Consequently, the screen says 'Searching for satellite signal' on most of the channels. Those channels with a picture break up intermittently. So there appears to have been a system failure somewhere.

I unplugged the receiver over night to reset it and that didn't help. Maybe someone has seen this problem before. Any suggestions before I begin troubleshooting?

--- CHAS

When you say "every other" tsp, do you mean all odd or all even!
Do you have another rcvr to try?

Could be any of three problems!

1) bad rcvr (not sending correct vltg)

2) bad cable

or
3)bad LNB

If you don't have another rcvr to try on that cable you'll probably have to have D* come out to isolate the problem!

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