Can't lock in 119 bird, need help

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Ok, I am a n00b and I know it. I have been a DTV tester for years. After that all went to crap with the death of the HU card, I decided to try my hand at Dish testing. Anyway, I am having a hell of a time getting the 119 bird locked down. Let me tell you what equipment I am using.

Dish 500 dish with what I think is a twin lnb (I think this has a build in swich) (It says 110 on one side and 119 on the other and has two outputs on it, so you can hookup 2 IRD's) The LNB does say DishPro on it!!!

2800 IRD

Atmega 128 18MHz crystal

Dish Pro Adapter (I was told that I needed this becasue the IRD is a legacy IRD that only support the 110 bird)

I have the dish on my roof all setup and I have the 110 bird locked in at about 100 on the signal meter. When I look at what 119 says I get this message (wrong sat) and the signal is still at 100.

No matter what I do to adjust the skew, azimuth and elevation I can not get 119. What am I doing wrong?

[ber2z]

It might depend on how far north you are if your in canada. I've heard people in edmonton have trouble getting 119 but calgary is fine. you might need a bigger dish for 119

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I live in the US, East Coast.

[fearlss-1]

The LNB itself...is it a DishPro Lnb or Legacy?If it a Legacy...you dont need the dishpro adapter for it to work.

Meanwhile make sure you are mounting on a level surface.119 can be a bitch to get if you surface isnt level.

[bols2dawaLL]

do yu have the right dish selected in yur menu .
I always run a checkswitch if things arent goin well with setup
use transponder 11 for setup

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I am not 100% sure what LNB I have. I will check when I get home. I am going on what I was told by my friend that gave me the Dish and LNB. The LNB does say DishPro on it. I assume it is a Twin LNB with the switch integrated. The Dish 500 is mounted on a sloped roof. I used a bubble level to make sure I have the mast level. BTW... I have this Dish Network Dish 500 mounted right next to my DirecTV Dish. It is about 2 feet away from it. The DirecTV dish is a triple LNB that picks up 101, 110, and 119 from DirecTV just fine. I had no issues mounting that one.

I do have Dish 500 selected in my menu. There is an option for Dish 300 and Dish 500. I found another menu that had a selection for SuperDish 3, 4 & 5. I have no idea what those are, but I do not have any of those checked.

I don't know what transponder I am setup to use in the dish pointing menu at the moment. I don't think it is 11 or 12 though. I will check that too when I get home. Why does the transponder matter?

[Morpheux]

You're probably using a single lnb and can only get one sat at a time.

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No, I checked and it is a Dish Pro LNBF

[Morpheux]

unplug your sat cable from the ird, run check switch, plug it back in, run check switch again and tell us what happens.

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I got the 119 and 110 with some help from a friend. He was only moving the dish a little bit at a time to get the 119 in. I was moving it a lot more than he was. I gave up on the Atmega128 and am now up and running with a Magic Card.