winegard dish verses direct tv dish

Getting nothing means you are getting nothing. That means you either have the wrong kind of receiver, you are not pointed correctly or you don't have the wiring connected correctly.

With the O's (for each channel strength) could be you are on the wrong sat. don't worry about O's till the green line goes as far to the right as your tuning the dish side to side and up and down. Go for strong signal strength before locking in channels.

fischer wrote:
The app is satfinder lite

thanks fischer..

Bill.Satellite wrote:
19 degrees would not be right unless you are very close to AK! There are smartphone apps that can help you get pointed and the receiver allows you to enter a zip code and get the proper elevation and azimuth settings.

I found out how to get the degree setting, it is 47. The azimuth is 138. So I crank it up and point in the direction of 138 after i set the

pointer of the ring with the degree settings to true north. I used my phone compass. The tv screen shows 5 lines of signal strength.

0's start to appear, i s l o w l y turn the dial towards the 138 mark, i go past it and return. nothing but zero's .

IF the LNB was at a different angle than the original one would it make a difference? It bolted on quite nicely. And the tilt of the dish

is that a concern? It has a slight rocking motion if you push it, very small though.

Not knowing what was done to this satellite before I got my mitts on it causes me to be concerned. I have no problem installing a

new dish or getting equipment to help with this process except the automatic ones. You keep advising me and Ill keep trying.

there were many options concerning which dish i had, not knowing I selected 18".

The app is satfinder lite

19 degrees would not be right unless you are very close to AK! There are smartphone apps that can help you get pointed and the receiver allows you to enter a zip code and get the proper elevation and azimuth settings.

RJsfishin wrote:
Manual antenna ??

All my Direct sat receivers have the signal beeper that you can hear a block away. If you have that ......under sat programming, then it is easy to find the 101 sat,.....if like you said, you are pointed near it already. Just move it around until the beeping speeds up, then lock it down when the speed is peaked.

great, i am going to do that. Also i just found some detailed easy to understand guideline that gives step by step instructions. There are features accessible on the Tv screen

I wasn't aware of.

Manual antenna ??

All my Direct sat receivers have the signal beeper that you can hear a block away. If you have that ......under sat programming, then it is easy to find the 101 sat,.....if like you said, you are pointed near it already. Just move it around until the beeping speeds up, then lock it down when the speed is peaked.

Well I don't really understand where to point the dish. I don't know where to look to get the correct degree setting. So I pointed the dish in the direction of the one on my house

and cranked it up to 19 degrees according to the digital readout. I got that reading off the TV in my house. Then I saw a number 101 degrees. So I cranked/turned the dish

to what I believe is close to that number. Reading the book it speaks about using your zip code. Where can I read about what i need to do? The information supplied

by the coach makes it sound like it's easy, maybe it is. Sounds like the dish is ok, that's an accomplishment.

Appreciate the help.

Getting a good connection is great but if you don't have the antenna pointed correctly (no matter how much you believe that it is) you will continue to get a 775. There is a VERY steep learning curve when trying to figure out how to point any manual antenna. Tell us more.