great site, big problems, HELP!!

[Tom Bare]

Great site everyone, I have been going in circles w/ my HD box, antenna for so long it hurts.

I have a Hughes box and just got and installed the third LNB for my dish [DTV].

There are times when some channels on the Hughes box [in non HD mode] will go out [searching for signal], while the RCA boxes in other rooms are working fine. Cannot get a straight answer on what the heck is going on. Any ideas?

Now, more importantly the HD is gone. I have great signal strength on all three LNB's, with the lowest one being 97, but when I go to 509 for example, there is no picture whatsoever.

With the Hughes you pick the dish type, etc. When doing this and asking it to "autoconfigure" it tells me I have an 18" round dish which is not the case.

I would just like to turn the TV on and have some darn peace. I am so frustrated I have pretty much stopped watching tv in the basement on the new system cause it irritates me so much.

HELP!!!!!!!!

Thanks,
Tom Bare.

[wward]

Check your sat "b, c" combiner that may be your problem. Also are you using one of the new phase three sat dishes? I have heard of all sorts of problems with the built in multiswitches with those dishes.

[Wooger]

Yes, I can confirm that with MY dish (Sony) if you switch horns around into the multiswitcher (ie: B into C and C into B) you lose SOME but not ALL channels!

Check your connections.

[Tom Bare]

Hughes brought up an interesting point. They had me look at signal strength on transponders 22-32 on sat A and sat B. The signal strengths were the same, w/ 22 being 0. He told me that B was not being fed through the dish or the signal strengths would be different for those transponders, and 22 especially would have a signal. He said therefore, all the info is coming from sat A which does not have the hi def signals.

Bottom line, he said what you guys have suggested; that the multi switch [ChannelMaster] is bad and is not combining A and B.

Now, after trips to all the local electronics stores with zero luck, where the heck do I get a multi switch???

Thanks!
Tom Bare.

[wward]

Try Stark Electronics www.starkelectronic.com