EX ELECTRONIX EXPRESS SF-95 Meter for Directv

Package shipped on a Monday, and I received it the following Wednesday.This tool was completely dead on the system I needed it for; wouldn’t power on. I tried it on a known good working system, dish that is perfectly aligned, and it powers on, but shows no (0%) signal strength.The coax cable that comes with the tool is far too short. There's no phone number or email for support.Overall this was a poor purchase on my part, but after reading reviews for this, and similar tools it's a crapshoot to receive one that's in good working order.

It worked as advertised

I could not line up my DirecTV satellite antennae, so I bought this meter, at a better price than I could find on e-Bay or anywhere else ( by about $35.00!). I still could not get it to work, so I called in a professional installer. It turned out the problem was elsewhere, but I was most impressed with the meter, and so was the technician. He said it worked better than his did, and after fixing the real problem, used mine to line up to the satellite. When I told him what I paid, he said he was going to replace the one he had, and order this one! We had 80 mile an hour winds come through this week, and of course, they blew my antennae off target. Lined it back up in minutes!

This thing seemed to work at first.... I did the adjustments, lowered gain (ATT) etc, followed the book. But when connected the receiver, it was a dud - I thought it would be alright cuz my receiver is giving me headaches so I connected a very old DTV receiver I kept just for antenna alignment and sure enough it was not pointed right.What I did ? I set up my wife's phone in front of the TV and made a Whatsapp video call to my own phone and went up to the roof again. This time my setup worked wonders and confirmed that I had to reposition the antenna.So I'll probably return this... or not as the overhead work is too much.Recommended ? NOT recommended.

Last year, when I needed to align my DirecTV SWM LNB antenna, I studied DirecTV's tech training for installing a SWM system, then bought an ASL-1 alignment splitter for less than $30. When the SWM LNB is powered up without any receiver connected, it puts signals from the 101 satellite out in one frequency band and the signals from 119 in another. The ASL-1 splits these into two different ports. When using my friends expensive alignment meter, I noticed that I wasn't using any of it's fancy features, just a signal strength meter, using the DirecTV procedures for alignment and dithering. I bought this and can align an HD SWM LNB in no time with this inexpensive meter. Feed the 18 volt output of the ASL-1 into one side and the output of either the 110 or 119 into the other port of this device, and follow the DirecTV "dithering" procedure. You will have pinpoint alignment.Feeding the 21 volts from the power inserter into this would probably fry it, so an ASL-1 is necessary just for power.