On January 13, 2016 at 15:00, Fins said...
The dish is on a pole, probably about a 75' run from the house (cant run the wire straight, it has to run an L shape, up and over). Its tucked behind some shrubs, but the DTV techs pruned the shrubs way back. I did wonder if they thought to scope up higher and see if a hanging tree might affect the signal. Also, I havent been back to check the signal. Often the DTV guys get in a hurry, dial in the first three birds, which around here puts the HD sats in the high 70's. Plenty of signal to work in fair weather.
Minimum acceptable signal is 84. 70s will definitely give you issues. If you were installing this new, the box wouldn't even allow you to activate with signal below 84. I can't say that this is the ONLY problem, but it's definitely A problem. Since the dish is on a pole, you could check and make sure the pole does not spin. If it does, that's probably what's causing it. If the pole is solid, the dish could be either out of alignment, or clipping a tree.
