I am looking for some signal quality and strength numbers for my install. I recently had the dish moved to a different location due to problems with some neighbor's trees. I am pretty sure I have the tree problem sorted, but now am still trying to figure out if I am missing some signal. I am still getting a bit more pixelation, macroblocking than I think I should have. (I've been with Starchoice/ShawDirect since 1999 at different locations.)
Basically my signal strength is good on both satellites (83-93), but my signal quality is down, especially on the HD channels (6.5-7.4dB). I'm wondering if my LNB is dying, or I need to fine tune the skew on the dish. The dish is now mounted to a 10' 6x6 PT post sunk 4' into the ground in 300+ lbs of concrete.
If some DHC'rs could post their numbers on this thread, this would let me know if I am close to the optimal signal, or if I need to adjust/troubleshoot some more. On most 5XX series receivers, it's 'options',6,4,7 to get to the system status screen. I need the numbers on the 3rd line.
Here are mine so far on ch 274, (I'll try to update them until I get the problem solved)
July 19th 11am signal strength 94, EchNo's 7.5 dB
July 20th 9am (sun/cloud) 91, 7.0 dB
July 21 -9am, light over cast 89, 6.6dB
July 22 -9am -sunny 89, 6.5dB
Thx,
Peter
Basically my signal strength is good on both satellites (83-93), but my signal quality is down, especially on the HD channels (6.5-7.4dB). I'm wondering if my LNB is dying, or I need to fine tune the skew on the dish. The dish is now mounted to a 10' 6x6 PT post sunk 4' into the ground in 300+ lbs of concrete.
If some DHC'rs could post their numbers on this thread, this would let me know if I am close to the optimal signal, or if I need to adjust/troubleshoot some more. On most 5XX series receivers, it's 'options',6,4,7 to get to the system status screen. I need the numbers on the 3rd line.
Here are mine so far on ch 274, (I'll try to update them until I get the problem solved)
July 19th 11am signal strength 94, EchNo's 7.5 dB
July 20th 9am (sun/cloud) 91, 7.0 dB
July 21 -9am, light over cast 89, 6.6dB
July 22 -9am -sunny 89, 6.5dB
Thx,
Peter