[scdavis0]

Please help me get > 0 quality on my 1000.2; I have been at this for 3 weeks now.

I can't get quality when I try to aim at the satellites. There's a Dish 500 installed on the roof right next to mine (I'm in a loft with 16 units), and I can tap into that just fine and get 110 and 119. When I tap into my Dish 1000.2, I can't get any quality on any of the satellites no matter how hard I try. I answered an advertisement on craigslist to get my dish professionally pointed. He came by and worked on it for about 15 minutes with a signal meter and said that I was locked into 119, but I still had no quality. He suggested I purchase a DP44 switch because maybe it was a power issue. I installed the DP44 yesterday, and I still can't get quality. Now I have no idea what to do next. Let's review where I could be going wrong:

1. Receiver. This is not the problem because I am working great when I plug into the Dish 500 right next to my 1000.2 on the roof.

2. Cabling. This is not the problem for the same reason.

3. Power. DP44 with power inserter creates no improvement.

4. Aim. Despite the fact that I cannot get quality on the receiver itself, we are using the correct skew, elevation, and azimuth settings and we are peaking it out on a meter. It is just that this isn't translating to quality on the receiver.

5. ??? I don't know where to turn next.