DISH TV changes satellite signals

markchioda wrote:
BB TX - this IS new news and is not the same discussion as nobody, even KVH, knew this was about to happen. This change just happened last Thursday (March 17) at 3AM. it affects dish tv subscribers with KVH or Winegard units; i.e. mine is a KVH R6 in-motion box. this is NOT the same issue as the Tracking Parameters software flash (KVH Technical Bulletin 15 & 16) needed to continue to track 119 and 110 on Dish. Direct TV users are still ok.

Umm.. no, this IS NOT "news", it WAS discussed on this forum on 2/23/16 by a post from cbr46.

HERE

Who stated..

"Dish Network turned off almost all of their QPSK modulated transponders on Feb 10th (funny, it was fine Feb 6th). Sure enough all I can get now are SD channels on some Western satellites.

I have a King 9704LP-30 S/N 601*** receiver. "

And went on to quote info from KingDome concerning this change..

This info was posted by King Dome:

"Earlier this year, DISH began an effort to convert most of its satellite TV signals from QPSK encoding to a new 8PSK format. The new signals allow more content to be streamed through the same bandwidth and provide greater utilization of satellites, although these signals cannot be decoded by many mobile satellite antennas or the older DISH Network satellite receivers including models 301, 2800, 3700, 3900, 4900, 1000/1500, 3000/3500, 4000/4500, 5000/5500, 501, 508, 510 receivers.

Since 1998, KING has manufactured a variety of mobile satellite antennas using several different proprietary methods of finding and identifying satellite signals. Some of these models relied on the QPSK signal in order to identify satellites and will be affected by these changes from DISH. Other models manufactured by KING either do not rely on this type of information to lock-on and identify the satellites, or they were designed with a special tuner that has the ability to identify the 8PSK signals from DISH and therefore are not affected by these changes. We expect that DISH will continue to transmit QPSK encoded signals from at least a single transponder on each DISH satellite for some time, so most KING satellite antennas that rely on that signal can be programmed to look for the remaining QPSK signals."


So, if your roof dish was using QPSK encoding to lock into the sat birds and is not able to use the newer 8PSK format it WILL NO LONGER function correctly.

KVH is either denying any and all information about this change or their "reps" need some training..