So we got the LNBF adapted to fit his dish. I aimed it at 95w and tuned it up as good as I could on the Chinese channels. I also checked positioning the LNBF by sliding it forward and backward until I got the strongest signal. I am reasonably confident that it’s as good as it’s gonna get.
So then I went in and checked RTV on Dad’s S9 and it was showing a 86% / 70% which I believe is a pretty darn good reading. He has always had trouble getting RTV, it’s been weak and goes out often. Unfortunately I didn’t check the signal strength before.
Another thing.. Before this, Dad was getting the PBS channels on 125w… They were a bit weak and sometimes they would drop out so they weren’t totally reliable. But they usually worked.
?Next up I THOUGHT I was loading a list of US satellites into the tuner. Apparently it was more than that, it overwrote the firmware with a different version. Much different. Now I may have to figure out how to change it back to what it was, the way it worked before was how my dad was used to it and he doesn’t like change. He also despises that remote control, he’s going blind, literally, and it’s very difficult for him to see the white on white buttons. It’s extremely annoying. I hate the S9 remote too. It’s HORRID! Whoever designed it deserves to be punched in the throat. HARD..
Anyway, once it overwrote the firmware and satellites list it rebooted and it was like brand new. I had to set up the USALS lat/lon stuff all over then select the ku satellites and start a scan.
I did a whole sky scan and then dumped the list to a thumb drive, plugged it into dad’s old XP laptop and try to edit the channels into something more user friendly.
As I was looking at and comparing the channels it found with published channels on Sathint.com I noticed that all the frequencies were waaaaaaaaaaay wrong. WUT???
I went back to the tuner and realized that it had defaulted to a universal LNB rather than the 10750 LO of the new S1PLL… Ooooopsy…
I figured that my best bet was to just reload the tuner like I had done earlier so that everything would reset to default then set it up all over again but this time be sure to also set the LO for EVERY satellite.
What sucks is there is an option to “Set USALS for ALL satellites” but there’s not option to “Set LNB LO for all satellites”.. How annoying ! And HOURS of time lost.
By now it was almost 5pm. I started a new scan of the whole sky with everything set properly and went home. My dad called me about fish and told me it had finished scanning.
I told him to press OK then EXIT a buncha times until it got out of the set up menus. Then he navigated through the massive list of like 600+ channels until he found LPBHD on SES-2 so he could watch his nature program.
I told him I would have to come back tomorrow to edit the channels into plain English and set up favorites lists for him. It’s sooooooo much easier to do that on the laptop than using the remote. Ugh!
So anyway, the biggest problem I have is that I can not at all find ANYTHING on 125w. NADA…
I found the Dish welcome slate on 121w and the SCOPUS NET channel on 123w. If I can find these channels it seems to me that I should also be able to find the stuff on 125w. I mean come on, 123 is a hair away from 125, right?
I found stuff on pretty much all the sats, it all seems to come in really well but nothing on 125.. What am I doing wrong? I used the tuner to aim at 125 then went to the dish and using my meter I tried to wiggle the dish side to side, up and down to find PBS World which is not S2, my meter won’t tune S2 or MPEG4 stuff at all so all I can do is search for PBS World. Or am I wrong? Is World now also S2?? It used to not be.
I put the tuner on 125 and set it for “Accurate Scan” and also tried the “Blind Scan” and still nothing.
I went in to the mode where you can scan individual frequencies and I tried to scan for the published PBS frequency of 12180/V/30000 and there was just nothing there..
Is it just me? Or did PBS on 125 go bye bye? I could have sworn it was working on my dad’s tuner just yesterday. I’m so burned out that I can’t think anymore. One thing I did notice though is that the last time the stuff for PBS on AMC-21 was updated was 2010, 3 years ago.. Certainly something has changed since then? Yes no?
?
ALL DAY LONG my dad was sitting there asking me “What is that?”, “What does that say?”, “What does that do?”, “What are you doing now?”, “What channel is this?”, “What do those numbers mean?” and so on.. ALL. DAY. LONG..
I was trying to explain everything I was doing to my dad when half the time I had no idea. I was just pressing buttons and hoping for a result most of the time. I am not expert. I love my dad but playing 2,000 questions all day was a bit much…
Anyway, I’m desperate for advice on finding the mysterious missing PBS stuff. Dad never was able to get the Montana channels so those aren’t a real concern and the ones on SES-2 can mostly fill in for the ones on AMC-21 with the exception of PBS World (he’s lukewarm on World) and the OETA channels. OETA produces some unique stuff that he likes and he’s all into Oklahoma stuff anyway (I have children/grandchildren there)..
If he can’t get OETA anymore he’ll really be grouchy and I’ll be in the dog house until I can fix it.
?Thanks!
So then I went in and checked RTV on Dad’s S9 and it was showing a 86% / 70% which I believe is a pretty darn good reading. He has always had trouble getting RTV, it’s been weak and goes out often. Unfortunately I didn’t check the signal strength before.
Another thing.. Before this, Dad was getting the PBS channels on 125w… They were a bit weak and sometimes they would drop out so they weren’t totally reliable. But they usually worked.
?Next up I THOUGHT I was loading a list of US satellites into the tuner. Apparently it was more than that, it overwrote the firmware with a different version. Much different. Now I may have to figure out how to change it back to what it was, the way it worked before was how my dad was used to it and he doesn’t like change. He also despises that remote control, he’s going blind, literally, and it’s very difficult for him to see the white on white buttons. It’s extremely annoying. I hate the S9 remote too. It’s HORRID! Whoever designed it deserves to be punched in the throat. HARD..
Anyway, once it overwrote the firmware and satellites list it rebooted and it was like brand new. I had to set up the USALS lat/lon stuff all over then select the ku satellites and start a scan.
I did a whole sky scan and then dumped the list to a thumb drive, plugged it into dad’s old XP laptop and try to edit the channels into something more user friendly.
As I was looking at and comparing the channels it found with published channels on Sathint.com I noticed that all the frequencies were waaaaaaaaaaay wrong. WUT???
I went back to the tuner and realized that it had defaulted to a universal LNB rather than the 10750 LO of the new S1PLL… Ooooopsy…
I figured that my best bet was to just reload the tuner like I had done earlier so that everything would reset to default then set it up all over again but this time be sure to also set the LO for EVERY satellite.
What sucks is there is an option to “Set USALS for ALL satellites” but there’s not option to “Set LNB LO for all satellites”.. How annoying ! And HOURS of time lost.
By now it was almost 5pm. I started a new scan of the whole sky with everything set properly and went home. My dad called me about fish and told me it had finished scanning.
I told him to press OK then EXIT a buncha times until it got out of the set up menus. Then he navigated through the massive list of like 600+ channels until he found LPBHD on SES-2 so he could watch his nature program.
I told him I would have to come back tomorrow to edit the channels into plain English and set up favorites lists for him. It’s sooooooo much easier to do that on the laptop than using the remote. Ugh!
So anyway, the biggest problem I have is that I can not at all find ANYTHING on 125w. NADA…
I found the Dish welcome slate on 121w and the SCOPUS NET channel on 123w. If I can find these channels it seems to me that I should also be able to find the stuff on 125w. I mean come on, 123 is a hair away from 125, right?
I found stuff on pretty much all the sats, it all seems to come in really well but nothing on 125.. What am I doing wrong? I used the tuner to aim at 125 then went to the dish and using my meter I tried to wiggle the dish side to side, up and down to find PBS World which is not S2, my meter won’t tune S2 or MPEG4 stuff at all so all I can do is search for PBS World. Or am I wrong? Is World now also S2?? It used to not be.
I put the tuner on 125 and set it for “Accurate Scan” and also tried the “Blind Scan” and still nothing.
I went in to the mode where you can scan individual frequencies and I tried to scan for the published PBS frequency of 12180/V/30000 and there was just nothing there..
Is it just me? Or did PBS on 125 go bye bye? I could have sworn it was working on my dad’s tuner just yesterday. I’m so burned out that I can’t think anymore. One thing I did notice though is that the last time the stuff for PBS on AMC-21 was updated was 2010, 3 years ago.. Certainly something has changed since then? Yes no?
?
ALL DAY LONG my dad was sitting there asking me “What is that?”, “What does that say?”, “What does that do?”, “What are you doing now?”, “What channel is this?”, “What do those numbers mean?” and so on.. ALL. DAY. LONG..
I was trying to explain everything I was doing to my dad when half the time I had no idea. I was just pressing buttons and hoping for a result most of the time. I am not expert. I love my dad but playing 2,000 questions all day was a bit much…
Anyway, I’m desperate for advice on finding the mysterious missing PBS stuff. Dad never was able to get the Montana channels so those aren’t a real concern and the ones on SES-2 can mostly fill in for the ones on AMC-21 with the exception of PBS World (he’s lukewarm on World) and the OETA channels. OETA produces some unique stuff that he likes and he’s all into Oklahoma stuff anyway (I have children/grandchildren there)..
If he can’t get OETA anymore he’ll really be grouchy and I’ll be in the dog house until I can fix it.
?Thanks!
