help i can't lock in 119

[sueb5514]

I have satellite 110 locked in and when I put it on 119 the strength is great but it is red and says wrong satellite. I ran the switch check and it keeps only picking up the 110. Help what should I do to get 119.

 

[osumike]

Do you have the skew, aka tilt, set on the dish?

 

[sueb5514]

Yes I am getting tv channels on 110 and the strength on 119 is 70 but red and says wrong satellite.

 

[osumike]

What is your skew set at on the dish? And what type of dish/lnb are you using? And is there a possibility of trees blocking signal?

 

[sueb5514]

The azimuth is 233 and the skew is 122 and I have dish 500.

 

[osumike]

Yep sounds right. Elevation? And what about anything blocking the sats?

 

[Jim5506]

After double checking that the post is true vertical and the skew is set to spec for your zip code:

1. Try finding 119 with the 110 lnb (rotate the dish clockwise about 9 degrees and drop the elevation 3-4 degrees). If you get 119 on the 100 lnb with this method, you probably have a bad lnb @119.

2. Another possibility is you are really already seeing 110 with the 119 lnb (dish is too far east) and the 110 lnb is seeing somebody elses satellite about 100 degrees. To check this, cover the left lnb (the 119 lnb) with tin foil when looking at the dish from behind the reflector, if 110 goes away you were seeing 110 with the 119 lnb and need to rotate the dish about 9 degrees clockwise and adjust the elevation probably upward 2-3 degrees.

 

[dvrexpander]

The azimuth is 233 and the skew is 122 and I have dish 500.

what switch? did you run the check switch? Is it being blocked by a tree or perhaps too low as in now you are picking up 119 for 110 and 129 for 119 giving you that wrong satellite reading...very possible for many reasons here.