Free to air receiver- no name receiver - problem

[shahdad]

I set up telstar 5 for a familty member about a year ago

i got them a receiver that just says "free to air" on it and nothing else

its the one you have to enter in the tp's manually

what is happening is that it scans the inputed tps and picks up the ch but then after a day or two, it says no signal even though the tps are still there and there is a signal for each tp under the setup menu

now even more interesting, it picks up each tp but the polarization is the opposite for all of them. for example tp 11789 is suppose to be vertical, but it works only if u select horizontal.

the larger problem is that it the reciver stops working and says no signal even though there is one. so what i have to do, is go in, reset the receiver and redo all the tps and scans over again

i hope somone who knows this receiver can give some help

or anyone that can think of anything

thanks

 

[shahdad]

i forgot to add, its pointed to t5

and when looking from the back of the dish, the lnb is at 7

im located in vancouver bc, canada

ive tried putting the lnb at 4 and changed the polarization to vertical and horizontal but it wont lock, it will only lock on the opposite polarization at 7

i cant make sense of it

any help would be appriciated

 

[PSB]

Do you have a 2nd LNB you can try?

 

[brentb636]

Or do you have a VOM meter , so that you can check the 13v and 18v coming from the receiver, which selects the polarity ? You may well be able to get a decent receiver on ebay at a very reasonable price. My used Fortec classic was $42 US.

 

[PSB]

I would also snip off all cable ends and renew them, just in case.

 

[Hermitman]

If your LNB is the type that has a separate feedhorn, just remove the screws and rotate the LNB 90 degrees. That will fix your Horz/Vert problem.

 

[shahdad]

problem fixed

i hooked up my pansat to the lnb, used the meter on that to tweak it and get it at the highest possible strength.

rebotted the "free to air" reveiver, which seems to be a St-1000/2000 blackbird, entered in the tps all over again

and this time the polarization was correct as the pansat wont allow switcehs on polarization

scaned, got ch. and everything is up an at em

problem was basically that the blackbird for some reason would not accept the correct polarization and would only accept it at its opposite for each tp - and in turn would reset it self