It worked on the 4DTV for several months and on the ASC 1 when I first installed it! I am hoping that the splice ( x-2 witch equals 6 butt connectors ) has allowed water intrusion!
I began this thread because of a sticking relay in my ASC 1, Brian has taken care of me on that! I had forgotten all about me having spliced that CAT 5 cable! If I had remembered this fact, I never would have mentioned this problem before replacing the cable!
Tomorrow I will be replacing the motherboard and connecting the new CAT 5 wire. The relay problem will take a few days to verify a fix because it is very intermittent. The losing signal problem is beginning to be more weather related, so that could take a few days also. I promise I will post the results because I hate posts like this that the original poster just left us all hanging!
I had my friend take pictures yesterday, Monday, It turns out that they were not needed!
The tap at the relay fix quit working on Saturday morning and of course my friend was missing again! I was able to replace the motherboard in the ASC 1 but I ran out of time and was not able to connect the new unspliced CAT-5 wire. Even through I had run the dish west to 0000 before the replacement, all I could find was a printout of the TVROSAT sat chart that I had written my assigned numbers on! That was a big help, but I still had to go find all my sats again!
That was easy until 121, I just could not find it! It did not matter what I did!
I had to get out my calculator and crunch some numbers! My far west sat is G-15 at 133.0 W at a count of 0179 on the ASC 1, AMC-11 at 131.0 at a count of 0194, G-13 at 127.0 at a count of 0221.
I had not fine tuned yet, these numbers could change after doing so, ( and they will be different from what you are using for equipment! )
but it was enough for me to use 27 counts for 4 degrees between sats and 10 counts for 2 degrees! After doing this 121 was right there at 0259!
Today was cold with a mist falling all day. The ASC 1 is working just fine, but I am still losing signal at times, the wetter it is outside the worse the problem is!
Wed is supposed to a lot warmer but with more rain! I do not know when I will be able to try the new CAT 5 cable!
And I confess, I did not run the new wire, a customer that thought I had undercharged him ran it!
He just knew how to use a shovel to make a 3 or 4 inch trench to bury my cables in! When I told him not to bury the cat wire he made tell him why! He then had to have my new wire to bury at the same time!
I just could not bring myself to tell him that by putting all those wires together like that in the same trench may not work,
The CAT 5 may have worked for me all this time because the wires were never run together!
Now they will be when I finally connect the cat 5 cable! If the weather ever cooperates?
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