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Turc

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Posted: 08/17/09 05:59pm

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Have frends traveling in Minnesota and they are having problems getting a signal from their dome to the direct tv receiver. The dome says it's locked on to a signal but the direct receiver says no signal. I was thinking it might locked on to a Canadian sat. Any ideas anyone--

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* This post was edited 08/17/09 06:41pm by Turc *

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Posted: 08/17/09 06:37pm

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My dome will lock onto other sats, but the beauty of the Direct receivers is that the signal meter will not recognize any sat except the 101.

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Posted: 08/18/09 05:17am

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Have them call DirecTv and have them send a signal. Also check all connections.

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Posted: 08/18/09 05:34am

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I think they called direct and they said there was no problem with the direct. I ask them if they could manually move the dish in the dome and they said no. I had this problem with my automatic dish locking on to the wrong sat, and I could move mine in manual to find the correct signal. These problems always happened when we were in the northern states.

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Posted: 08/18/09 07:13am

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I have a Kingdome dish and a directv receiver, and it's common for the dome to lock onto the wrong satellite. I set the receiver to sat 101, transponder 19. If the dome locks on to a sat and I don't get anything on the screen, I just hit search button for the dome and it'll go to the next sat. I repeat this until I get a picture on the tv screen.

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