JF>  After much tuning I called the dealer to have them come and
JF> look. They say that the dish is warped because of the "pattern"
JF> of birds that are not coming in clear.
JF>  I guess what I am wondering is.....Was the dish warped from day
JF> one since F1 falls into that pattern and it is only now being
JF> noticed when programming moved around.
JF> Any comments or ideas.  Besides....I wanna see STARS.  Grin...
 I doubt that a "warped dish" would account for this.
 If you were getting poor reception on 3 adjacent satellites, I'd be
more willing to suspect a warped dish; but, NO reception ...
 Especially because you're having trouble with adjacent satellites,
I would suspect a problem with your polarity (polarotor or similar).
 Most satellites are designed so that adjacent satellites are on
opposite polarities. Satellite A would have channel 1 vertical and
channel 2 horizontal. Satellite B would have channel 1 horizontal
and channel 2 vertical. Satellite C would have channel 1 vertical,
etc.
 If you could not make channel 1 horizontal, you would not be able
to pick up satellite B.
 As you can see, a polarity problem could make you loose every other
satellite.
 (This does not mean that you do or do not have a warped dish)
 I hope that this helps.
 TTYL.
 Robert
 * SLMR 2.1a * Synonym: word you use when you can't spell the other one.
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