I only ask this because for years I've had a 7½ foot dish pointed at 99°W and never had any problems receiving anything from it until sometime around the middle of last year, then I started losing the weaker signals on that bird, although the big major network on that satellite still came in fine. Anyway, after losing the 16APSK signals on 97°W I repointed the 10 foot dish I had been using for that to 99°W and then everything came back and scanned in with no problem. I've noticed that others have reported more problems receiving signals from that satellite lately, so I am just wondering if maybe it's getting near the end of its lifespan and is losing strength, or if maybe something happened to one of its power sources and they had to cut power on some of the transponders.
If you go to https://satsignature.com/plot/america/galaxy-16 and look at the C-band horizontal side, it always seems like the transponders below 3900 MHz show considerably lower signal strength than the ones above 3900 MHz. The same does not seem to be true of the vertical side. Unfortunately two of the more popular C-band muxes on that satellite are in that frequency range. So that makes me wonder if maybe an antenna or a solar array or something was slightly damaged, or maybe knocked out of position slightly.
If nobody else were reporting problems I would be more suspicious of the LNB on the smaller dish, but it is not that old because I replaced the single output LNB that had been on it with a dual output one a couple of years ago, and it's always been one of my most reliable dishes until this last year. And that combined with the other sporadic threads I've seen where people have had issues with muxes disappearing on their equipment makes me wonder if something is up with that satellite (no pun intended).
If you go to https://satsignature.com/plot/america/galaxy-16 and look at the C-band horizontal side, it always seems like the transponders below 3900 MHz show considerably lower signal strength than the ones above 3900 MHz. The same does not seem to be true of the vertical side. Unfortunately two of the more popular C-band muxes on that satellite are in that frequency range. So that makes me wonder if maybe an antenna or a solar array or something was slightly damaged, or maybe knocked out of position slightly.
If nobody else were reporting problems I would be more suspicious of the LNB on the smaller dish, but it is not that old because I replaced the single output LNB that had been on it with a dual output one a couple of years ago, and it's always been one of my most reliable dishes until this last year. And that combined with the other sporadic threads I've seen where people have had issues with muxes disappearing on their equipment makes me wonder if something is up with that satellite (no pun intended).
