Stuck on downloading guide

[Toolmanbmw]

Hello finally converted my bell 3100-010 to dish and got my atmega working :)
but I got a problem.. its been stuck at the end of downloading the guide for a good 20 min now... and still no go... how come ? Anyone else have this problem ? ty

[burnt_servo]

i don't know if this will help , but i believe the guide info comes off the 119 bird . with my setup ( 310.010 , atmega , and tsop lock ) i get really good reception on transponder #3 ( spotbeam ) and when i set it to that , the guide comes through fairly quickly . if i let the reciver pick a transponder the downloading of the guide can stall , untill i manually change the transponder .

now if i could only make it stay on transponder #3 so i could get all the channels .

[Toolmanbmw]

Ahhh... I am actually in edmonton alberta and my small dish cant get 119. I can only pick up 110... which transponder does the guide for 110 ?

[burnt_servo]

i'm not sure you can get the guide with 110 . anyone else want to comment ??

i'm near prince george , b.c. i am using a 28 " dish to hit 119 . but it's so low in the horizon , that some tree's about a 1/2 mile away are interfering with it .
i've got an older 33" starchoice dish i'm going to try in a few days .

i wonder if one of those old 8 foot dishes you see in peoples back yards , just sitting there , would work without overloading the reciever?

i've seen some 39 inch dishes on ebay , but for 100.00 + 50.00 shipping ( roughly ) it makes me wonder if there's something else a guy could use that might be cheaper .

i wonder if it might be possible to rig 2 dishes to focus a signal to one lnb ?

[Toolmanbmw]

yeah seem to be alot of work to get 119 here up north... I am sure Atmega fix will be out soon for Bev :)

[pikachule1]

In Edmonton, get a couple of 3ft dishes, you'll catch 110 & 148 without any problem. Signal will be strong enough to resist rain fade.