Quote Originally Posted by Data7 View Post
I have this problem as well but I have a horizon sat meter to play with. the main problem is a combination of skew of the lnb and power level of the signal. the installer has set up the dish with the lnb in the wrong place and got the maximum power level for the horizontal or vertical instead of checking the BER bit error rate (amount of back feed from wrong polarisation). you need to set your dish up square with the bubble indicator and set the skew off set to number 3 out of 5. and realign the dish. the problem with the openbox/skybox/solomend is the new firmware cuts the signal off completely when it drops below 50% my other dm boxes show 45% on the missing channels but show the channel anyway.
Thanks for replaying mate.
When I was up at the dish last weekend, I did notice that the bubble wasn't dead centre. I didn't think it was that important. The LNB at the dish is also skewed at an angle, which I think it should be.

Is there a way to set the skew on the openbox from a menu? Because I don't get what you mean by '3 out of 5'.