Shawdirect in Yuma this winter
We brought down two old non hd receivers and the Essential 600 HD receiver. The old receivers (205 and 305) work perfectly. The hd receiver generally works but always has a few random stations which ...
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We were just in Yuma, we have a 630 PVR and we didn't have a problem getting HD channels, but I didn't check the channels that use the new third sat that is ranged so you can't get signals south of the US/Canada border. I have an automatic Winegard dish.
We tried to help a fellow Canadian friend in Yuma with a tripod, he had two receivers and couldn't get HD channels either. We tried better aiming (got a 92 SS) and changed the LNB without success. One theory, it may be the aiming process with the tripod (thinking that we hit the wrong sat, Shaw's 2 sats are only 4 degrees apart). The other possibility is that some receivers are programmed to look for the HD channels off the new sat, I noted that our friend's channel mapping was different than ours.
We tried to help a fellow Canadian friend in Yuma with a tripod, he had two receivers and couldn't get HD channels either. We tried better aiming (got a 92 SS) and changed the LNB without success. One theory, it may be the aiming process with the tripod (thinking that we hit the wrong sat, Shaw's 2 sats are only 4 degrees apart). The other possibility is that some receivers are programmed to look for the HD channels off the new sat, I noted that our friend's channel mapping was different than ours.
