DTV RCA receiver trouble

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I am not sure this is even the forum for this, but here goes. I have a
two receiver system ( DTV) and have had no trouble with it, until last
week. Last Sunday after an extremely heavy rainstorm ( just a
coincidence I think) the upstairs receiver stopped working correctly.
It would only receive a few channels and got very little of the system
signal. It was not the connections ect, it was the box which somehow
went on "the fritz". This AM I turned on the upstairs TV ( oh we
replaced the broken box with the old downstairs box, it worked great
no trouble) and the same thing!! It has a blank screen no info no
nothing. I will say again that we took the old box ( same model as
the one which broke the week before) upstairs and put the new one DTV
sent us downstairs. So my question, what could be going wrong with my
set, the boxes, or whatever upstairs that would cause two boxes to
have the same trouble two weeks on a row(after two heavy rains)? Or,
could it be that since they were both purchased at the same time they
just both lasted about the same amount of time( you know like light
bulbs)? I have a hard time believing this , but are they that
disposable? Please anyone, can you help?!

PJ

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The boxes might need to be reset by disconnecting power for 5 min, then
reconnecting. If that doesn't do it, then try rescanning your channels. If
that doesn't fix it, I'd look at the dish connections and wiring. What model
are the boxes?

And, you might have trouble changing the location of the boxes, Directv has
the info of each box, you may need to let them know you're moving one of
them.



"PJ" <strbuk@stny.rr.com> wrote in message
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> I am not sure this is even the forum for this, but here goes. I have a
> two receiver system ( DTV) and have had no trouble with it, until last
> week. Last Sunday after an extremely heavy rainstorm ( just a
> coincidence I think) the upstairs receiver stopped working correctly.
> It would only receive a few channels and got very little of the system
> signal. It was not the connections ect, it was the box which somehow
> went on "the fritz". This AM I turned on the upstairs TV ( oh we
> replaced the broken box with the old downstairs box, it worked great
> no trouble) and the same thing!! It has a blank screen no info no
> nothing. I will say again that we took the old box ( same model as
> the one which broke the week before) upstairs and put the new one DTV
> sent us downstairs. So my question, what could be going wrong with my
> set, the boxes, or whatever upstairs that would cause two boxes to
> have the same trouble two weeks on a row(after two heavy rains)? Or,
> could it be that since they were both purchased at the same time they
> just both lasted about the same amount of time( you know like light
> bulbs)? I have a hard time believing this , but are they that
> disposable? Please anyone, can you help?!
>
> PJ