No signal at all from satellite, what to do?

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About a week ago, the signal from our satellite started to jump in and
out. Signal going from 80% to 0 and back again. Some hours later it
stayed at 0, have been like that for about a week now.

We have had similar problems before, but then it never stayed at 0
permanently, just kept jumping. Was rather random when it happened,
could last for many hours up to days before it went back to normal.

What kind of problem is this? We have tried with another reciever, but
the same problem there, so it must can't be the reciever. The dish is
not out of allignement either. Must be somewhere in between, a bad
connection somewhere perhaps? What is the most likely cause and what
should we do to fix it?

Thanks

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If you can, run a cable directly from the dish to the receiver. You might
want to unplug the receiver when you make or break connections. If that
doesn't work, it might be the multi-switch. If there is a connection
problem somewhere, it might be a connector has come off the cable, just pull
on them and see if any are loose. If you have a wall plate you connect the
cable to, remember there is a connection behind the plate so you might need
to pull out the plate to check it.

Have you noticed anything that might be blocking the signal, like a tree or
a building in the line of sight to the satellites?

Clark