I'm using a Fortec Star Platinum NA receiver with a 6ft dish and get the following readings on 83 deg from Southeastern PA:
TP 3 11775 V 4234 Q40/46%
TP 22 12140 V 30000 Q53/60%
TP 23 12160 V 30000 Q53/60%
TP 11735 H 4444 Q0%
Electro,
I don't know how similar the meter scales are between your Fortec Star Platinum and my Fortec Star Dynamic, but I am reading the following quality from these TPs:
11735 (H) 35-44%
11775 (H) 77-91%
11838 (H) 56-65%
12140 (V) 52-60%
12160 (H) 53-64%
I do wish my Dynamic's meter indication was a little more stable than this. It is difficult to obtain a really good reading with it jumping around like this. You might try adjusting the dish alignment with an in-line meter or another receiver that does have a more stable indication if your Platinum's meter is as jumpy as mine.
The dish I am using is a 1.2 M GeoSatPro, INVACOM QPH-031 LNBF, Fortec Star Dynamic receiver and about 300 feet of cable. I am near Omaha, NE.
The signal I am getting from the RTN (RTV) TP isn't much over the threshold for my Dynamic (I think that the threshold is around 32%).
Your quality readings from the HughesNet TPs aren't too different from mine, but with the difference in our dish sizes, I think you should be getting some better results here, and especially with TP 11735 since it is currently reading nothing at all.
As others have also mentioned, I suspect that your dish is not aligned as well as it can be. But, remember that TP 11735 is well known to be much weaker that the others on AMC 9. I have struggled with peaking my dish and LNBF just to muster what I have currently and keep it there ever since RTN moved here from 123.0W.
I would play around with peaking the quality signal with one of the other TPs to max them out, and then recheck 11735. Hopefully you can pull up the signal on 11735 so that it is detectable and then peak on it.
RADAR
