Dish Network Problem

[illflem]

Anybody ever have a problem with your satellite signal getting stuck? Much like putting a VCR on pause, mine started doing this but starts going again if I change the channel. Is my receiver getting ready to go?

 

[dmurdock]

does it happen on multiple channels? possibly a problem with the channel and not the box? i'd call dish and ask, i'm sure this has happened before...

 

[WBerry]

illflem,do you have a hot card?or if youve used one in the past and they zapped it,it could also be affecting your other card also,it happened on my setup in the past. lightfoot

 

[chuck3]

Bill, sometimes mine will do that if the weather is bad or a snow storm comeing in, it can block the signal between your set and the sat. and it just kinda hangs it up.

 

[Whitmore]

Bill, we get that sometimes when its snowing too, I think its blocking the signal, if yours is doing it when not snowing than maybe its nor quite pointed right ??? just a thought



I will take my primestar back any day... ... ... . Kevin

 

[JHansen]

Mine hangs too every once in a while... but a little different than yours. When I get flipping between channels-let's say from 140-146 just using the arrow key (OK so I'm lazy-but I like to see what's on all the ESPN stuff) sometimes it'll hang at-oh let's say 144 for discussion's sake. Freezes there for a few seconds on a black screen with the display header at the top-no response to the remote. After the few seconds the channel will come up and you can watch or switch. No biggie-figuring it's probably something to do with old technology-my receiver's gotta be coming up 5 years old now (3500 series I believe).



Oh yeah don't tell the CRTC I've got a gray market US dish... . or I'll get thrown in prison with drug dealers and rapists. All for wanting TV outside their boundaries-yeah I pay for it fair and square-no pirate cards here-but thinking outside the box is strictly frowned upon here in Kanada.



Jason

Honest Echostar, I do live in Lake Havasu Arizona!

 

[dslcummins]

Every once in a while, my screen goes black, for 2 or 3 seconds, then it comes back. I figured the tv was bad, but I was having coffee with a couple of neighbors, I mentioned it to them and they said they were having the same problem.