bruinator

I wouldn't know this until i actually look at it tomorrow.

Joker

Cables used by the dish tech were left over from my cable tv witch was installed in the early to mid 80s.

Seb was right. Call that company up and tell them you want the appropriate cabling immediately. Jeezus, what kind of cretin installs a HD dish using analog wire?

AndyJohnson

Taking the card out doesnt do anything bad. You can take it out at any time and you will get an error code, like the searching for signal, then put it back in and reception comes right back.

Joker

http://www.tech-faq.com/directv-satellite-dishes.shtml

look at these dishes and tell us which one you have or which one looks closest to what you have.

sebman2112

OK, while you might have a blockage issue due to snow, I wouldn't at all be surprised if it was those old cables giving you problems. Trust me, I've had that exact problem before, and I've known other techs who've run into this. That tech was a moron to install over old cables. It's the fast way out, but old cables can't handle the same capacity, which cuts down your signal strength, and makes it easier for the weather to effect your system.

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bruinator

I assume the LNB in that url is a dual and if there was another that would be a triple one?

bruinator

I don't have an HD dish just normal dish.

AndyJohnson

I had a problem with one of the 3 TVs. Had my wife calling directv and they sent a new receiver, it changed nothing, they were scheduling someone to come out. They had already come out 2-3 times, did something with the cabling, it worked for a few days then stopped.
I took it into my own hands.
Went down into the basement. You have what looks like a splitter (it could also be attached to the side of the house) The cables come from the dish to the 'splitter' then out to the TVs.
All I did was switch the 2 non-Tivo cable from the 'in' side of the splitter. Bam the one that didnt work, now worked and the one that did work didn't.
Wnet back down and reconnected them carefully so it was a good connection, and it has been fine since.
Not sure if that will help because you are having problems on all of them.

The thing that puzzles me is that all 3 arent doing the same thing.

Joker

yeah...look at the SAT page I linked up and tell us which one you have

Joker

The thing that puzzles me is that all 3 arent doing the same thing.

that why I think it's a covered LNB...if he has the dual LNB system the High Def node sounds like it's covered and the local channels one partly obscured. But still, like Seb said, no way you should have a new dish with old cables...it just doen't make sense.