ZuniJayne
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There are a couple of Forum messages and articles I searched out, but they don't address all of the problem I am having.
I finally got down to brass tacks on setting up my Dish TV for the Fox. I got the setup when I was house-sitting this last summer so never had to aim the antenna dish. Silly me, I assumed it would be as easy as setting up my old Direct TV dish, which I could do in about 15 minutes or less.
My tried and true dish antenna setup was bolting it to a 2x6, leveling it, and using the trusty analog satellite meter to aim it. Turn up the volume on the signal strength meter on the screen and listen to see if I had the right bird. A handy rock or brick was good for steadying it if I was too lazy to drive the BF nails through the board into the ground. <g>
I have a 522 receiver/dvr and a DishPlus LNB. The prewire on the Fox is only for one cable in, not the two that the receiver wants. At first I was able to get either 119 or 110 but not both. A DISH tech rep said I didn't have to use both connections at the LNB; both carried both satellite signals.
Well, that didn't work, and the "check switch" function apparently got confused and shut the door on 119 getting in to the receiver. About that time my little satellite finder decided to croak, and/or was getting no power from the receiver to it so it could read signal.
Next step: try using the old coax from my Hughesnet dish to attach to both LNBs, run straight through the open window, to both connex on the back of the receiver. Try to get signal - no luck. Check switch still tells me to pound sand.
I get on the line with advanced tech support at Dish. The last guy was helpful and realized I wasn't a TOTAL idiot and suggested I get a separator to make the check switch happy. Apparently there is a catch-22 that you need a signal to make the check switch function right, but if the check switch is not right, you will NEVER see a signal on the TV screen display.
I wish I hadn't called a second time. I got a person who is REALLY lucky that I am a couple of continents away. I ended up hanging up on her.
I've been to several tech sites about this, and it seems each one has a little bit of the puzzle but not the whole thing. Yeah, I know, I probably should have come here first. : I suppose Monday I could try to track down a local installer, but they probably want $$$ I don't have.
I tried to test the continuity of the analog signal meter by putting the tipsof my multimeter on ohms, in the wire hole on each side, and got a reading. Testing on the threaded part for both sides said 0.00. Is that telling me that something inside is fried? There doesn't seem to be a way into it to replace a fuse or something.
I don't mind rewiring things to bring two coaxes into the Fox.
TIA for any help.
I finally got down to brass tacks on setting up my Dish TV for the Fox. I got the setup when I was house-sitting this last summer so never had to aim the antenna dish. Silly me, I assumed it would be as easy as setting up my old Direct TV dish, which I could do in about 15 minutes or less.
My tried and true dish antenna setup was bolting it to a 2x6, leveling it, and using the trusty analog satellite meter to aim it. Turn up the volume on the signal strength meter on the screen and listen to see if I had the right bird. A handy rock or brick was good for steadying it if I was too lazy to drive the BF nails through the board into the ground. <g>
I have a 522 receiver/dvr and a DishPlus LNB. The prewire on the Fox is only for one cable in, not the two that the receiver wants. At first I was able to get either 119 or 110 but not both. A DISH tech rep said I didn't have to use both connections at the LNB; both carried both satellite signals.
Well, that didn't work, and the "check switch" function apparently got confused and shut the door on 119 getting in to the receiver. About that time my little satellite finder decided to croak, and/or was getting no power from the receiver to it so it could read signal.
Next step: try using the old coax from my Hughesnet dish to attach to both LNBs, run straight through the open window, to both connex on the back of the receiver. Try to get signal - no luck. Check switch still tells me to pound sand.
I get on the line with advanced tech support at Dish. The last guy was helpful and realized I wasn't a TOTAL idiot and suggested I get a separator to make the check switch happy. Apparently there is a catch-22 that you need a signal to make the check switch function right, but if the check switch is not right, you will NEVER see a signal on the TV screen display.
I wish I hadn't called a second time. I got a person who is REALLY lucky that I am a couple of continents away. I ended up hanging up on her.
I've been to several tech sites about this, and it seems each one has a little bit of the puzzle but not the whole thing. Yeah, I know, I probably should have come here first. : I suppose Monday I could try to track down a local installer, but they probably want $$$ I don't have.
I tried to test the continuity of the analog signal meter by putting the tipsof my multimeter on ohms, in the wire hole on each side, and got a reading. Testing on the threaded part for both sides said 0.00. Is that telling me that something inside is fried? There doesn't seem to be a way into it to replace a fuse or something.
I don't mind rewiring things to bring two coaxes into the Fox.
TIA for any help.