greg deutsch Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 I have recently changed over to Dish satelite. I lose my complete signal with moderate to heavy clouds even without rain. Is this the normal that the rest of you encounter that have dish or is my signal weaker than the norm. I would appreciate any feedback you can give me. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donandjim Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 Gregory: We too are using the Dish U-S and loose the signal whenever a cloud moves over. The rain just brings an end to our viewing. We've been on the system for 8 years now and installed a larger dish a couple of years ago to improve the reception. It's a bit better then the smaller dish, but not much. I guess the only fix now is an even larger dish but I don't think that would fly with our association. In the meantime, we are fair weather viewers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowyco Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 What size dish do you have? Parabolic or circular? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joco Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 I have recently changed over to Dish satelite. I lose my complete signal with moderate to heavy clouds even without rain. Is this the normal that the rest of you encounter that have dish or is my signal weaker than the norm. I would appreciate any feedback you can give me. Thank you The only way to improve it is a larger dish antenna and stronger LNBs that pick up a signal better than the Dish LNBs. Dish moved the satellites so that now Western Mexico barely gets a signal. Watch TV online. Send the signal to your TV. It will be easier and cheaper than investing in more satellite equipment. Free local Networks and they sell a reasonable plan for the rest of their channels: http://www.ustvnow.com/ Free but some stations do come and go and you can get advertising: http://www.tvpc.com/ChannelList.php http://tklist.net/tklist/tempall.php?http://bit.ly/U2OxfA http://www.tvpchd.com/channels/2/isOnline/desc http://www.ilive.to/channels/?p=2 News and other channels: http://www.livenewschat.eu/politics/ http://www.themonspot.com/ http://www.liberalkitty.com/index.html There are hundreds of links. Google Live TV or internet TV and find them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 All I know is that the 4 US DISH channels picked up on a 2.4 meter dish in West Chapala for Telecable have a message thereon from the Dish receiver saying Complete Signal Loss. I get the same message on my 2.4 meter dish pointed at DirecTV USA. Sadly the satellite dealers tell us that the largest Ku band dish available here, is the 2.4 meter or 8 foot dishHowever the signals being picked up by a 36.5 by 26.5 inch (75 E) Canadian Shaw Direct elliptical dish is bringing in their signals from Canada very clearly in both SD and HD this afternoon. These signals carried on the Canadian satellites also includes signals from the US network stations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg deutsch Posted December 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 I am using the large round 8 foot dish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Saltos Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 What you get is what you see with dish. It's far less than the ideal system for here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcscats Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Shaw the Canadian Sat service is the only one that allows a small dish anymore and it went out with the clouds last night. They all do it at one time or another but DishUS or Direct lose it more often than the Canadian dishes in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Even last night I received continuous signals from Anik F1R on Shaw Direct. I only lost signals from those channels on Anik F2 the bird that carries most of the HD channels. And I'm using the 75 E elliptical dish (36.5 by 26.5 inches) Let me add that as LCScats posted, the US DIS and DirecTV signals are so weak down here that even with the 2.4 meter or 8 foot dish one looses signals much sooner when the weather hasn't gotten that bad yet. Right now. My signals are great on Shaw but aren't coming in on DISH very well via the Telecable antenna in West Chapala. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Saltos Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Likewise, when the HD goes out I simply switch to SD channels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcscats Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 I only lost the HD bird last night as the other said. Standard picture. (SD) works fine unless it gets really really black cloudy than it all goes. No doubt the most reliable sat other than Mexican sat services (dish mexico, and sky) is Shaw and we don't get the new sat down here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomgates Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 We have US Dish with the 8 foot dish. Recently had the dish realligned to maximize the signal. I was getting the complete signal loss, especially on Ion channel 216 all the time, and now our signal strength is 46, up from 21, and no problems now. We are on Sat 119. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gringohombre Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 We have US Dish with the 8 foot dish. Recently had the dish realligned to maximize the signal. I was getting the complete signal loss, especially on Ion channel 216 all the time, and now our signal strength is 46, up from 21, and no problems now. We are on Sat 119. Can you please let me know who you used to realign, contact info and how much? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomgates Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 It is the local satelite service listed in the various directories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gringohombre Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Anybody have any idea who this satelite service might be? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted December 29, 2013 Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 You can try Mike Meryiman, Ajijic Electronics, 766-1117 in Ajijic down the street from Don Pedro's restaurant, west end of Ajijic. Las Flores #2A. Or Roberto, in the strip beside the Oxxo, San Antonio. Across from Century21 beside Chula Vista. 331-026-6104. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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