Direct TV causing hum in audio system

Thanks for all your input. I think I'll start by grounding the dish to the same location as my power outlets. One thing that worried me, as I move the cable coming down from the dish, it occassionally sparked when touching other component. Is this unusual? Treyhoss, I read your post, did you ever fix your problem?

Thanks,

Yes, I did. I found I had unaccounted for a grounded (3-prong) plug on the same circuit. I put a cheater plug on that and the hum was eliminated. I would try the cheater plugs before anything else since it is so inexpensive. My fix ended up costing <$2.00 - of course this was after I spent almost $100 on the MAGIC! Good luck

Had the same problem guys!

The issue is that these darn dish people DO NOT RUN a ground from the dish to the house ground. This is MUXT HAVE!

I hae seen over 50 systems since it took me months and $100's of bucks to fix mine too!

Everyone with hum, make sure that your house polarity is correct, and that all equipment has a solid ground.

good luck!

Thanks for the expertise. I've been having the same problem in connecting my Dish Network to the A/V system, but only when I hook up my Toshiba S-VHS VCR to it. Using my naive knowledge of electric wiring, I thought it would be a bad choice to put "cheater" plugs on all or many of my system's AC power cords. Is there any danger to using the plugs? I'm also using a Panamax 1000, but I haven't had any luck using the coax inputs on that.

Enjoy the Experience.

I believe the satellite box sends a DC signal back to the dish to alter the horizontal/vertical polarity of the receive horn. If you put something in the line, such as back to back 75/300 Ohm transformers, you block the DC signal going back to the dish so the dish never changes its polarity. I presume that is why Treyhoss lost half his channels with the Mondial thing. As mentioned in an earlier post, make sure the dish is grounded to the main electrical ground.

Best regards,
Dave