satalite problems

FIRE UP wrote:
rar2121,
Well Sir, I don't know how long you've had your King Dome and how long it's been having this problem but, ours basically does the same exact thing. We bought our coach, an '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD with the 330 CAT about 2 years ago and, about 6 months after that, we acquired a Direct TV receiver and, hooked it up to the King Dome. It worked as it was supposed to for about 8-10 months.

Then, one day when we were at home and, the rig is parked in its normal parking place, I turned on the K/D and let it search, as I always do/did when we're working on the coach or cleaning it. Well, the ON green light was normal and the searching light was red, then amber then, it started blinking green and I thought it was almost ready to fine tune and stop. Then the light should stop blinking and go solid.

Well, it kept blinking green and, when it does that, the K/D is not satisfied that the "Bird" found, is the right one and, it will go in to the search mode all over again. It will continue to do that forever now. I almost kicked it off the roof one day when I got fed up with it. But, nice gent on here sent a note out to me that stated, "You don't have to throw that thing away, just set your TV screen up to be the signal meter and, start the K/D search.

Then, when the graph starts to move and turn green, and the beeps get faster and faster, and, when you think it's reached its highest percentage of reception, reach up and push the off button to off". Then, put the TV screen on regular tuning and it will bring in the channels, as normal. It works flawless that way. It's like having an "automatic and manual" satellite system in one. Hope this helps some.
Scott

I was told , when mine did this , that the power supply voltage in low. The detector for the signal is voltage critical and if voltage is slightly low it will not lock-on to the satellite. I never got to check this out before I traded the 5er.