Have a good question does anyone else a problem on 99w C band the PR mux I can't get today is there anyone else having the same problem? I lost the PR mux and the KWCY both of them go out.
Dan Rose
Dan Rose
99w c band?
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You made me turn the TV on.... All my channels on 99W are working fine. look for another thing to blame...
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Its not the size of my my dish its what kind of reception you get. Lot o the times comes in at 70% Q with no problems just thought if any one else had the same problems?
Dan Rose
Dan Rose
Did the gardeners run into your dish again...or cut your coax?
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Edit: actually, if you are running on your new short C band LNBF, I would put the old one back on line as a quick test.
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Edit: actually, if you are running on your new short C band LNBF, I would put the old one back on line as a quick test.
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ummm yes it is
The fact you have a smaller dish (1.2m) you need optimum conditions to keep the signal. Any change will screw it up quicker than if you had say a 6 or 8 footer
If it "is not the size of your dish" then my local NBC would use a 1.2m dish to get the NBC feeds instead of a 15 foot dish
The problem with your small dish is that when pointed at 99w it can see 101w and 97w. So any feeds that come up on the same frequencies on neighboring satellites will give you trouble. You might be able to nudge your dish left or right to see less of the problem feed but some of your other 99w channels will lose Q. Right now I don't have a C band LNB on my 1.2m but when I did KCWY would go away for a few hours or up to a full day once a week.
With my home minibud (GEOSATpro 1.2M with C1) on 99w the Lesea, VI/PR and AFN muxes and a few GDMX channels usually come in quite reliably. KCWY about 50% of the time and the rest of the transponders are too low to lock. Recently, the VI/PR mux signal has been marginal and is often too low to lock.
I noticed in the past, that the signal also decreases during weather events at the uplink. For larger dishes, this attenuation results in lower signal quality, but on smaller dishes, the signal drops below the noise threshold and the signal disappears. It is all about the dish size. If the surface of the dish is not reflecting adequate signal from the desired satellite, the receiver will not be able to lock.
I noticed in the past, that the signal also decreases during weather events at the uplink. For larger dishes, this attenuation results in lower signal quality, but on smaller dishes, the signal drops below the noise threshold and the signal disappears. It is all about the dish size. If the surface of the dish is not reflecting adequate signal from the desired satellite, the receiver will not be able to lock.
I think I saw that you use a conical scalar. Perhaps a gust of wind or rainstorm or perched bird tilted it a bit one way? I wonder if you went out and fiddled with it ever so slightly if it might come back in. These mini-BUDs are extremely temperamental
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I don't have a miniBUD , but this seems to tell the story.Dan said:
I went out and messed with it a little bit those micro buds are very particular on what sat you are on but the c band signal is so broad. You could be 8 degrees off from satellite that you want and you still get a signal 99w in particular.
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