At 0512 this morning, transponder 15 on 61.5 went to 0. Everything else seem fine. Anyone else experiencing this?
Transponder 15 on 61.5 gone!
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Now, it's miraculously back on with a signal strength of 50 which is about average for me. (I've been compulsively checking since my 1000.4 was installed 2 weeks ago).
Come on E-XV!
Come on E-XV!
Ok, this can't just be a coincidence. This phenomenon occurred at 0512. For years, my receivers have inexplicably tuned to 101 at 0512 every morning.
See this post from 2008: http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-ne...using-odd-behavior-622-722-a.html#post1582657
For a few days last month, I thought the behavior had stopped, but it continued to happen, and sometimes the screen would just go black for about 3 seconds instead of tuning to 101.
As stated, two weeks ago, I had a 1000.4 installed. The auto-tuning to 101 continued to happen. Again, this is happening on 2 different receivers. There are no auto-tune's set.
When this happened this morning, the image broke-up and stuttered for about 5 seconds before finally going to the signal lost screen (specifically 61.5 xponder 15), then the "locals lost, don't call us" placeholder. I immediately started checking key transponders on all 3 sats and everything was optimal except for xponder 15 on 61.5 which was 0.
What the heck is happening at 0512 every morning?
See this post from 2008: http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-ne...using-odd-behavior-622-722-a.html#post1582657
For a few days last month, I thought the behavior had stopped, but it continued to happen, and sometimes the screen would just go black for about 3 seconds instead of tuning to 101.
As stated, two weeks ago, I had a 1000.4 installed. The auto-tuning to 101 continued to happen. Again, this is happening on 2 different receivers. There are no auto-tune's set.
When this happened this morning, the image broke-up and stuttered for about 5 seconds before finally going to the signal lost screen (specifically 61.5 xponder 15), then the "locals lost, don't call us" placeholder. I immediately started checking key transponders on all 3 sats and everything was optimal except for xponder 15 on 61.5 which was 0.
What the heck is happening at 0512 every morning?
Transponder 15 has nothing on it . It is always 0. At least till the new sat launches today and goes in service. This 5:12 thing happened to me at first when I got my 722k last year. Every day at that time my recording for Msnbc Morning Joe would stop at 5:15 am. It would cut off and stop and the recording would say : stopped by user 1. I eventually set a manual recording for the same show to start and it stopped the problem. I don't have this problem on my 922. My update time is set for 1:30am, so I know it wasn't the reason. Eventually I set a regular timer once again for Morning Joe and it worked without stopping. I never figured out why it did this , but there were others who saw this same behavior on their receivers too.
It's a spotbeam, so you may not be getting it or even needing it, but I do. Perhaps it's just my poor understanding of it, but my local HD LiL's come from transponder 15 (spotbeam 16). When I check it on the point dish screen, the word transponder changes to "spotbeam". Also according to the The List, it is being used. My HD LiL's are channels 6383 to 6387.
No. Transponder 15 is a spot beam, so depending where you are... 15 is fine here, but I'm in a different beam.
My bad. I guess 15 is a spotbeam, but I never get anything on it. But the information about the 5:15 in the morning is still valid.
I see that your 722k was stopping a recording, but was it automatically tuning to 101?
It's just been almost amusing that at 0512 every morning, mine would automatically tune to 101 with the exception of a few times in which it would just go black for a few seconds. Then this morning, it actually loses signal. There was no "acquiring satellite" message, just "signal lost" followed by the locals placeholder.
For years, I've just assumed my 622 was possessed until I discovered it happens on my 722 as well. And now this. Weird.!sadroll
Since TP 15 is a spotbeam transponder, Echostar 15 will not help anything with the spotbeams problems you might be having. E12 will still provide spotbeam service at 61.5.
I don't even know if it's related. I never have problems. It's just @ 0512 every morning. Does it make sense that a spotbeam problem would consistently happen every morning at 0512? Just weird.
I usually have problems around 11:30 pm every night with TP 15 going in and out. I don't stay up any later so I'm not sure how long the problem lasts but everything is OK in the morning. I am on the fringe of the spotbeam so I don't know if that causes the problem but everything is fine up until then.
I don't recall it happening when the Morning Joe show was stopped. I have seen the 101 channel come up if I lose an ota channel due to lack of signal. The main thing is that I backed up my 1000.4 sat dish with a side sat for 129 and most of the time it records the Morning Joe off of 129 now. So no more problems with stopped timers.
No . I have the eastern arc dish + 129 on my side sat( 1000.2 with lnb adapter ). Most of the time the receiver defaults to 129 sat on hd channels except for those that are exclusive to 72.7 since I don't have 110 any longer in the mix. My sat locals for Houston are from 61.5. I don't have any problems with ota timers not working properly like they did before when I had both 129 and 61.5 in the matrix, since my sat locals are coming from Houston and my ota locals are from Beaumont.
