Howdy all,
I got bored yesterday so i took some RG6 and connected up the c band lnba on "Vader Killer" (my daughters knickname for my BUD). I did not connect the actuator or polarity servo as i dont have the proper cable and the ground is frozen solid, so no way to bury said cable even if i did have it.
I then grabbed my faithful sat finder, loosened up the mount, and swung the dish around by hand to see what i could find for a signal. After about 30 seconds of swinging the dish around i hit a very strong signal, so i tightened down the mount and went inside to blind scan and see what i had found.
Well it appears as if i hit three sats all at the same time. Blind scan found channels that are on Anik f1, Anik f2 and Solidaridad 2. I thought that was pretty neat, but not exceptional as these sats are within 6 degrees of each other.
I really like the Newsworld news channel that is on anik f1, it beats CNN hands down IMHO. One thing i noticed is that the CTV Red / Green/ Blue channels all had test patterns showing with no programming
Here is the problem: all of the channels that my satworks scanned in are showing up as having a 5 digit transponder code. Kinda wierd, as these channels are only available on c band, and i only have a c band lnba on my BUD right now. Notice this is a LNBA with downconverter, not a modern c band LNB.
All of the channels (C band) I scanned in off the BUD have a signal quality of ~ 90%. When i try to manual scan a cband transponder with values found on lyngsat i get nothing at all, no quality, no video, no audio, even tho blind scan is finding channels off of the same transponder.
Anyone have a clue as to what is happening?
I got bored yesterday so i took some RG6 and connected up the c band lnba on "Vader Killer" (my daughters knickname for my BUD). I did not connect the actuator or polarity servo as i dont have the proper cable and the ground is frozen solid, so no way to bury said cable even if i did have it.
I then grabbed my faithful sat finder, loosened up the mount, and swung the dish around by hand to see what i could find for a signal. After about 30 seconds of swinging the dish around i hit a very strong signal, so i tightened down the mount and went inside to blind scan and see what i had found.
Well it appears as if i hit three sats all at the same time. Blind scan found channels that are on Anik f1, Anik f2 and Solidaridad 2. I thought that was pretty neat, but not exceptional as these sats are within 6 degrees of each other.
I really like the Newsworld news channel that is on anik f1, it beats CNN hands down IMHO. One thing i noticed is that the CTV Red / Green/ Blue channels all had test patterns showing with no programming
Here is the problem: all of the channels that my satworks scanned in are showing up as having a 5 digit transponder code. Kinda wierd, as these channels are only available on c band, and i only have a c band lnba on my BUD right now. Notice this is a LNBA with downconverter, not a modern c band LNB.
All of the channels (C band) I scanned in off the BUD have a signal quality of ~ 90%. When i try to manual scan a cband transponder with values found on lyngsat i get nothing at all, no quality, no video, no audio, even tho blind scan is finding channels off of the same transponder.
Anyone have a clue as to what is happening?
