Hello,

I have installed thousands of Directv systems, but installed my 1st 5 lnb dish yesterday at my house.

Goog signal on all sats except the 99. I am getting no signal at all on 99. If I remember right, it is not on yet. I faintly remember reading somewhere that it was not active yet, or, should I be getting signal from this bird ????????????????

All other sats are 90 or greater.

Did you tell setup that 99 was installed ?
I think it's the next page after LNB selection.
If you said yes, then on the transponder signal page, almost all the transponders will have n/a except for 4 or 5 which should have signal strength numbers.
If you said no during setup then all will have n/a. For now, I think only about 4 or 5 transponders are active on 99.

Those are killer numbers for pointing a 5LNB. What did you use? a Birddog?

No birddog. I have been doing the commercial version of Direcway for the lottery for years and am very familiar with pointing dishes at hard to find sats. I am also in Florida where the signal strength is normally a little higher on some sats than up north. I used a standard sat meter.

I ran setup again, the other sats referred to after the lnb type are the 72.5 and the 92. when I go to signal strength on the 99 it says 0 transponders on 99 (Net). I think this means that it is not yet active as all of the other sats say at least 24 transponders on them.

I bet Directv is coming out with a firmware upgrade when this sat becomes active.

I am in Northern Virginia and in this area all we see is the 103 bird. Nothing on the 99.

Dave T

Thanks Dave, Thats what I thought, How could I have great signal on all 4 sats and nothing on 99

Satellite 99(network 10) All transponders N/A
Satellite 99(network 11) 100 on transponder 3, 97 on trasponder 7, and zero on all the rest that don't say N/A.

Satellite 103(Network 14) 79 on transponder 6, 66 on 7, 65 on 15,