We're ready for the kids. In the last 3 years, we've had maybe 2 kids the first year only. Every year, I get to eat the chocolate bars after-the-fact. No reason to think this year will be different.
What am I Receiving?
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Looking at Satbeams.com your QTH is well within the AMC21 footprint for N. America with an 80cm dish.
I'm aware of that. This is why I tried hard this week to receive PBS tps. I am receiving AMC 21 very well: stable SQ 70% from Claro which uses DVB-S2 also. There is something different about the PBS tps. I will conclude that using only the actual signal power at a particular receive location is not enough to determine if you will or won't receive a tp. I have never seen tps that supposedly could be received with an 80 cm dish that were so difficult for me to receive. For example, 123W supposedly needs a 100 cm dish. I was able to find 123W quite easily and all tps blind scanned in with reasonable SQ.
Earlier, I thought I had an LOS problem. I don't think so. If LOS was an issue, I would never receive Claro at 70%. I might receive it, but SQ would be down or unstable. I could see as I panned my dish slowly east/west and up/down that I am dead centre on Claro. I then checked and I could tell by carefully watching how PBS affects the SL and SQ bobble head that I was also centred on the PBS tps.
Inverting the dish was a good idea since it allowed full freedom to pan the dish up and down to be sure I was centred elevation-wise. By the way, this autumn season seems to be the best time of year to search for new satellites. I think it's the dry air here when the weather is sunny that is delivering maximum SQ on all satellites.
Earlier, I thought I had an LOS problem. I don't think so. If LOS was an issue, I would never receive Claro at 70%. I might receive it, but SQ would be down or unstable. I could see as I panned my dish slowly east/west and up/down that I am dead centre on Claro. I then checked and I could tell by carefully watching how PBS affects the SL and SQ bobble head that I was also centred on the PBS tps.
Inverting the dish was a good idea since it allowed full freedom to pan the dish up and down to be sure I was centred elevation-wise. By the way, this autumn season seems to be the best time of year to search for new satellites. I think it's the dry air here when the weather is sunny that is delivering maximum SQ on all satellites.
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Have you tried a different LNBF? Occasionally a LNBF generates a harmonic or has other issues on a specific frequency that prevents receiving a transponder.
Sure have! I tried 3 different LNBs including my best PLL LNB. All gave the same results. You'll be happy to know I left the standard SL2 LNB in place since my PLL model belongs on my motorized dish and the Multistar universal performs very well except scans in frequencies 3 MHz high.
I'm going to drop this thread and start a more general thread with some questions that have come to mind as a result of this week's work.
I'm going to drop this thread and start a more general thread with some questions that have come to mind as a result of this week's work.
One thing for sure, the various TPs are all at different power levels, there is no consistency. The Montana PBS I do not get at all, a ZERO Q.
Montana is easy to get here, but I lose SD06 on wet rainy mornings before I lose Montana with the way my 1M dish is tweaked. Would think the only solution is a bigger dish, the guy from Montana PBS insisting 1.8M is the minimum recommended size.
I like that idea since I do feel I'm working blind. A USB sat tuner would be easy since you can see I use a laptop at the dish anyway when orienting. But...that means spending more $. Won't happen in the short term.
That's to be expected. On rainy days (like today!) even Claro has disappeared from SQ 70% to bobble head. I've been hit on the head so many times with the knowledge I should upgrade to a 1.2m dish. I tell anybody in these parts they should use a 1.2m from Day 1 and learn from my experience.
Now have my Star Choice 40" x 44" in place just to see if this slightly larger dish will give different results. Now receiving 11944 V 1481, 12018 H 5000, 11833 H 2893 (SCOPUS-NET-TECH). Can anybody confirm if these are on 123W or 125W? I think they are 123W, but I'm receiving them while centred on the Claro tp on 125W.
Not sitting in front of my receiver, but I have definitely feel like I've seen "SCOPUS-NET-TECH" on 123 before.
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Yeah those 3 tps are booming on 123W. This lil bigger dish is nicer, but still no PBS. Getting usual Claro well on 11980.
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