OK let me start off by saying that about a couple weeks ago I had a thunderstorm roll over my house and the receiver lost the signal. I called customer support and they told me to reconnect all the wires. What fixed the problem then was reconnecting the wires to the little silver splitter thing in the basement (I connected the wires to the other connections on the silver device). So today I had another thunderstorm roll over. I went down in the basement and did the same thing as before (I connected the wires back to the old connections. There are only to inputs and two outputs on this silver device I am talking about). The result of this is my receiver still cannot get a signal. I reconnected all of the other connections from my receiver to the satellite and nothing has worked. Now to add to this confusion, this is the signal for my HD receiver. I have three other SD receivers receiving SD signals in the house and they all work just fine. What could be the problem here. I don't think its my receiver.
That's just a ground block (which isn't even grounded), should have no impact on loss of signal. I'd have to go with alignment issue, bad output on the dish, etc.
Did you just lose signal on the HD Box or all of them?
But sound like a cable (prehapps water in the outside cables). Or an alignment issue. The HD dishs are very heavy if they are not mounted properly they can move.
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But sound like a cable (prehapps water in the outside cables). Or an alignment issue. The HD dishs are very heavy if they are not mounted properly they can move.
Mine wasn't tightened properly and moved after a few storms. I was out of my 90 warranty period but still called and asked for a free re-alignment. I'll never get those 30 minutes of my life back. After slamming the phone down in disgust I grabbed my ladder and re-aligned the dish in less than 10 minutes. I used a set of cordless phones set to "intercom" to listen to the receiver's test tones. After that I tightened every bolt I saw on that dish. Nothing like a "professional" installation.
My DIY install of a Phase III dish survived a wind powerful enough to suck out a set of attic windows and blow my riding lawnmower (with the parking brake set) across the yard.
We had DirecTV installed about 6 weeks ago. We lose our signal on both the HD and SD boxes every time it rains. My father-in-law has a similar set up to mine about 10 minutes away says he rarely loses his signal. Should I call for another alignment? I'm starting to get a little aggravated with it.
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We had DirecTV installed about 6 weeks ago. We lose our signal on both the HD and SD boxes every time it rains. My father-in-law has a similar set up to mine about 10 minutes away says he rarely loses his signal. Should I call for another alignment? I'm starting to get a little aggravated with it.
Mine isn't the one with the grounding block issue. That was an earlier poster.
I'll have to compare the two. I remember mine being in the upper 80's and low 90's on most, but one was down in the 60's. I still have the number for the company that did the actual install. I think I will call them and have them come out and look at it.
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