all signal lost on 82w

[italian1]

was working fine a little while ago, turned everything off to do house cleaning and dusting yes even around the receiver. when I turned it all back on I get no signal on 82w all 91 w is fine

[nobodyspecial]

can you get the aquarium channel on 91? 1758 bev 2758 dl

[italian1]

Wow and now I just checked again and channels seem to be coming back in on the 82

[italian1]

can you get the aquarium channel on 91? 1758 bev 2758 dl

that channel is not in my guide at all

[nobodyspecial]

that channel is not in my guide at all

I dont have a rcvr in front of me so the NUMBER might be wrong Its a HD channel so you can check to see if your 8psk is working

[nobodyspecial]

it is 1758 ,2758 on dreamlink 888,1888 is another hd channel on 91

http://bellsrdu.ca/en/channel_lineup.htm

[italian1]

yea, but all my 82 channels are back, I now have signal that's weird

[Newfygarge]

That may be signs the 8psk is on its way out

[italian1]

I think I have figured out the issue with the loss of signal on the 82w sat, after loosing the signal on both sats I decided to climb the ladder to the dish. Everything was tight still, I wiggled the coax coming from the dish into the switch and low and behold the signal came back. I let it go and lost the signal again. I examined the 2 coax wires coming out from the lnb's to the switch and saw 1 of them had a split in the plastic casing and the ground was making contact with the arm that holds the 2 lnb's . I am thinking it was grounding out on the metal and shorting out. I switched up both coax wires and replaced the switch as well just as a pre caution and all is well again. Luckily I didn't fry the receiver when it was grounding out against the frame!!!

[Terryl]

If the coax had a split and the shield was touching the arm of the LNB holder then it should not have made a difference, but the split in the coax insulation may have let water into the coax, this does all sorts of funny things to RF signals, replacing the split coax fixed the water intrusion problem, thus fixed the signal problems, and accidentally grounding the coax shield will not affect the receiver.

The coax shield should be grounded via a ground block or ground wire attached to the case of the switch, this ground should go to an earth ground of some type, this helps the coax shield the signals from the LNB's/switch to the receiver from outside interference, it also helps keep any stray electrical voltages from getting inside the house, a ground block or switch will NOT protect you from lightning, only a gas discharge device or inline lightning arrestor will do this.

[peterpeete]

hello, what is your server...

[nobodyspecial]

hello, what is your server...

Best to check out the iks forums