to verify that it is 101 -put a dish receiver on it & move it 18º to see if 119 is there!! with appropriate elevation change
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We techs can't use that excuse, get to it!
Same here !
Unless it's lightning of course.
I was a mailman for nearly 30 years. I never got to say "hey boss it's raining, I'm not delivering any mail today!"
LoL, yea but when seibel or rio decideds to go down, then we sit our asses around doing nothing for hours..... Was last week insane for you guys too or just the NE. I had a no los for my first 8-12 that I literally could not cancel or put on hold until almost 10:30, and even then I didnt get another job dispatched till after 12. Then we all started seeing that lovely "Past Open" status.
Glad to know I wasn't the only one looking at "past open" last week. I spent nearly 4 hours doing nothing while they got all their crap together
It was a national issue, I needed to talk to ISS about a waiver, and they confirmed it was DTVs system nationally, not just Direcsat/mastec/insert HSP here.
Yeah I know, it was ok by me! Had a horrible storm (tornado and all) roll through during the outage. Our handhelds haven't been right since.
do you guys have the crappy verizon blue ones, or the nice sprint black ones? (although sprint service sucks unless your in a metro area)
We have the old school Verizon ones still. Sprint doesn't really have towers in our area so it's Verizon. We're still using the HH's you see in all the monthly training videos lol
Hello to all,
I was reading a bit from this post, probably not all in detail, but most of it, in what area was it achieved Wolfang (Vixens)? I mean not yours but the place you said you saw it working?
?What area from the caribbean?
I was reading a bit from this post, probably not all in detail, but most of it, in what area was it achieved Wolfang (Vixens)? I mean not yours but the place you said you saw it working?
?What area from the caribbean?
Hello Wolfang,
Hope you are well, we met long ago from DBSForums. This person is near the US, also I see a problem with this combination, I must first explain in detail how DirecTV uses the frequencies after
down conversion (LNB's):
| Voltage / Tone | Satellite | Transponders | Frequency on coax cable | |
| 18 VDC / 0 KHz | 99 W | 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 | 250 MHz to 750 MHz | CATV |
| 18 VDC / 0 KHz | 101 W | 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32 | 950 MHz to 1450 MHz | L- Band |
| 18 VDC / 0 KHz | 103 W | 2,4,6 | 1680 MHz to 2150 MHz | L- Band |
| 13 VDC / 0 KHz | 99 W | 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,19,21,23 | 250 MHz to 750 MHz | CATV |
| 13 VDC / 0 KHz | 101 W | 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31 | 950 MHz to 1450 MHz | L- Band |
| 13 VDC / 0 KHz | 103 W | 1,3,5 | 1680 MHz to 2150 MHz | L- Band |
| 18 VDC / 22 KHz | 103 W | 2,4,6,8,10,12,16,18,20,22,24 | 250 MHz to 750 MHz | CATV |
| 18 VDC / 22 KHz | 110 W & 119 W | 110 W: 8,10,12 / 119 W: 22,24,26,28,30,32 | 950 MHz to 1450 MHz | L- Band |
| 18 VDC / 22 KHz | 103 W | 4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24 | 1680 MHz to 2150 MHz | L- Band |
| 13 VDC / 22 KHz | 103 W | 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 | 250 MHz to 750 MHz | CATV |
| 13 VDC / 22 KHz | 119 W | 23,25,27,29,31 | 950 MHz to 1450 MHz | L- Band |
| 13 VDC / 22 KHz | 103 W | 3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 | 1680 MHz to 2150 MHz | L- Band |
If you understood well the frequency plan, we need to ask ourselves these questions:
How to combine catv with L - Band? easy a Diplexer...perfect but there's a catch, you need to locate a power inserter to feed the LNB.
so let's say in some way the person managed to combine 99 W (CATV) with 101 W with a Diplexer and a separate power supply for the CATV section or 99 W.
as you could observe 103 W has portions in upper frequency of L - Band there is no commercial device to combine 950 MHz - 1450 MHz with 1680 MHz - 2150 MHz you need to pay a special manufacturer to custom make a band pass filter
so you can combine and also you have the issue of powering the LNBf section that is receiving a specific bird out of an orbital slot.....
The LNB's needs to be tricked to use only the Ka portion of the 99W of one triple LNB you have to insert 18 VDC power so it stays in even transponders,
after that you need to extract only the Ka portion or 250 MHz to 750 MHz this could be done with a diplexer.
You can use the 18 VDC of the switch to power the Eagle aspen DTV 32+ for 101 W and get even transponders combined with other diplexer.
Do the same for odd or 13 VDC. For the other satellites or orbital slots your power inserter not only needs 18 VDC or 13 VDC bit it need a tone generator (22 KHz).
after all that you'll be missing:
103 W (1680 MHz to 2150 MHz) odd & even or 13 VDC and 18 VDC
103 W (1680 MHz to 2150 MHZ) odd & Even with 22 KHz tone
I would like to see those Ka levels....the picture you show there looks like a home made 1.8 m off set fed antenna......ka is much more difficult to achieve with poor antennas or not accurate efficient surfaces....
The person should be very close to the US (Northern part of Mexico, probably Jamaica, DR, Puerto Rico and probably you might have a shot in Belize) but no way southern that that.....specially with that kind of antenna.
The thing gets difficult not only because Ka is so weak or has very low spill over in fringe areas, but when using larger antennas the antenna boresight is smaller because the gain is higher.
In other words sharing the antennas surface is difficult when it has more gain (size) you have to be within or close to the satellites target to share the antennas gain, this can't be done when you are deep in fringe and require high gain
to achieve required locking levels.
If I red well you might be suffering this @ 101 W where you lock all even but some odd are missing.....what happens here is DirecTV 4S carries Even transponders and DirecTV 8 carries odd transponders
?as you are using a high gain antenna you have to share it's gain and aim between two satellites in order to achieve all even and all odd so you will have to weaken a bit your even levels to acquire more odd levels....
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Hi guys,
thank you for posting.
I am located in Belize, Central America.
Currently we have had two or 3 weeks with heat, high humidity (no wonder, it's August) but also very little cooling breezes.
Lately there has not been a cloudy day which would enable me to be out at the dishes w/o getting a heat stroke
I am still very interested in solving the problem . . .
I have my fully activated HR22 ready and also most other equipment necessary.
I do not have an AIM satellite meter but will order one soon.
I will read your posts right now.
Thanks, Wolfgang
thank you for posting.
I am located in Belize, Central America.
Currently we have had two or 3 weeks with heat, high humidity (no wonder, it's August) but also very little cooling breezes.
Lately there has not been a cloudy day which would enable me to be out at the dishes w/o getting a heat stroke
I am still very interested in solving the problem . . .
I have my fully activated HR22 ready and also most other equipment necessary.
I do not have an AIM satellite meter but will order one soon.
I will read your posts right now.
Thanks, Wolfgang
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