History, biography @101w low signal

[walrus1957]

I am using a 76cm dish and a Coolsat 5000 receiver, most of the day bio and history are running 95% signal quality, as night approaches the quality begins to drop and at its low is around 68%. This has not been enough to cause pixelation, but if there is even a slight shower or heavy cloud cover I loose signal.

Isn't 101W the bird with the odd skew? If so has anyone tried adjusting the lnb slightly to see if the quality greatly improves when the level drops at night? I wonder if the satellite has a slight wobble to the orbit and this particular transponder is skewed more than the others? Just a quess, think I might test this theory out tonight when I notice the quality dropping.

 

[phlatwound]

.....Isn't 101W the bird with the odd skew?....

Walrus, 103W Ku is the known oddball.

 

[Mr Tony]

yep 103 is the oddball skew

 

[putney]

STL, Mo _ 90.6w

1:19pm, clear

JSC322 Ku Lnb

Primestar 84e

cnx duo

95 quality with a threshold of 30

that's as good as it gets!

 

[gillham]

Well that mux is 75-76% quality right now, up from 66-67% last night. The signal is noticeably stronger on the BLSA. I forgot there was a 1500 sample limit on my overnight scan so it overwrote the info before I stopped it.

I'll attach the BLSA output from just before noon PDT to my previous post so they are more easily compared by flipping back and forth.

 

[Mr Tony]

75 quality right now at 2:30 CDT

 

[gillham]

Quality is down to 70-71% here at 3:40pm PDT.

 

[tvropro]

Guys post reports when it goes bad, time etc. A maximum point of the day is good but without the weakest time also it don't help. What's weird is I'm seeing different down peaks times in different parts of the country. This just becomes more of a mystery

I start noticeable fall off at 5pm CST and come back up by 2am in NE Illinois.

 

[phlatwound]

Southwest Missouri, 6:30 PM CDT, clear skies

Setup #1:
90cm 3ABN
WSI single 521 LNBF (the light blue one)
Visionsat IV200
DG380 motor

73-76% Q (threshold is around 20%)

Setup #2:
90cm Fortec Star
Techsat TrackerII single LNBF (the red one)
Coolsat 6000
STAB HH90 motor

87-88% Q (threshold is around 63-66%)

Setup #3:
1.2m Prodelin
Techsat TrackerII single LNBF
Coolsat 6000
BV H-H mount

91% Q

 

[tvropro]

29-31Q right now 6:32pm CST. Seems a bit higher tonight for this time.

 

[1inabillion]

Still in the 90s here on both setups In KC the cs5k on my setup has a threshold of 63 the Cs6100 on my setup has a threshold of 24

 

[Mr Tony]

7:00 here in Mpls
67-69 bouncing

 

[PALL MALL]

8:41PM EST

87-88% Q CS5K

 

[Mr Tony]

still bouncing 67-69

 

[roosman]

still bouncing 67-69

Jumping 63-64 in Thunder Bay ( 6hrs north of minneapolis)

 

[putney]

8:13pm StL, Mo

55Q threshold 35Q

 

[phlatwound]

8:30 PM

My Setup#2 just started doing the "Coolsat bounce" (goes from 87%-70%-87%).

Love these CS 6Ks but they sure have a wacky Q meter.

 

[1inabillion]

Still in the 90s on history & Bio Ch with steady readings @ 8:40 PM

 

[gillham]

Just got back home and checked quality. Pretty solid 66% right now. Threshold of 63 or so. Video is solid.

 

[jlhphotec]

Solid 82 here in central AZ...