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mikedarla
April 30th, 2008, 08:20 AM
Located in Ohio (43787) we had to redirect our dish for the locals. I redirected the dish, received all three satellites. The locals, on 129 I would asume, lasted about 20 minutes. I have 110 and 119 but no 129. Why would I have the locals for a short time and then lose them? I have changed the LNB, switched dish inputs in the switch but stll can not regain the locals. Does anyone have any ideas?
LXSWRX
April 30th, 2008, 05:16 PM
I would have thought your locals would come off eather 110 and 119.
I know that 129 is HD.
You say you are using a super dish?
So I take it you are looking at 110 118.7 119 and 129?
Try and peek out 119 using transponder 11.
Get it to about 63 and you should get all the rest.
mikedarla
April 30th, 2008, 06:28 PM
I would have thought your locals would come off eather 110 and 119.
I know that 129 is HD.
You say you are using a super dish?
So I take it you are looking at 110 118.7 119 and 129?
Try and peek out 119 using transponder 11.
Get it to about 63 and you should get all the rest.

Thank you I'll give it a try.
mikedarla
June 6th, 2008, 07:28 AM
I've tried peaking the dish but still no local reception. When they moved the locals to another satellite, 129 I believe, it is lower than the first. That placed me in a situation where a tall hill just blocks my signal. I used to receive the locals before the move. If I were to install a single dish on a pole what direction would I point it. In your opionion would this work? Does it matter what order the three LNB's connect to the switch? Thanks for any help.
LXSWRX
June 16th, 2008, 08:22 PM
You may want to try this.
Call dish and find out what orbit your locals are coming off.
Most of the time it will be 110o with a local spot beam.
I know that 129o is HD, I'm not sure your locals will be there, except the local channels in HD( but that I'm not sure about.

You may also want to consider using a Dish 1000 with a DPP 1000.2 LNBF.
I'm not sure what the skew and elevation would be for your area.
I know here in Utah it's 100 skew and about43-45 elevation.
Try asking a local DNS office for further info too.
They can be found in your local phone book.