I have a GlobeCast TV SE830-x that is about 2-3 years old. The unit came w/ a dish and LNBF.
We bought it so my wife could watch BNV-TV fta broadcasts ... It worked fine through GlobeCast, and then also afterwards when Globecast dropped BVN-TV, it also worked fine (I had to go up on the roof and reposition it - for the last year we have had a good signal strength and good signal quality via AMC4 at 101W).
Out of the blue it stopped working. Symptoms:
Signal Strength 0
Signal Quality 0
Known good cables - triple checked.
No lightning strikes/storms that correspond to problem. Also, no visible or known damage to either receiver or dish/lnbf.
Tried resetting to factory defaults and reprogramming settings.
Went up on roof w/ known good cables and TV to double check things.
Questions:
1. Is there a way I can determine whether it is the LNBF or the Reciever? ...something easy?
2. Does transponder # matter? The GlobeCast receiver I have doesn't me to enter a transponder # of 21. Only 1 & 2 are available. The original insstructions I followed specifed TP1, not TP21. Previously TP1 worked fine, but now in the LyngeSat site I see it listed w/ TP21. Is this transponder buisiness a "red herring"?
3. If I need to replace either the LNBF or the Receiver, and I still want to get FTA programming, via AMC4, are there a few cost effective solutions you can point me to that are known to work w/ AMC4? Ideally I'd like to keep the dish that I have already, and replace only what is faulty.
thanks for your time
davy
We bought it so my wife could watch BNV-TV fta broadcasts ... It worked fine through GlobeCast, and then also afterwards when Globecast dropped BVN-TV, it also worked fine (I had to go up on the roof and reposition it - for the last year we have had a good signal strength and good signal quality via AMC4 at 101W).
Out of the blue it stopped working. Symptoms:
Signal Strength 0
Signal Quality 0
Known good cables - triple checked.
No lightning strikes/storms that correspond to problem. Also, no visible or known damage to either receiver or dish/lnbf.
Tried resetting to factory defaults and reprogramming settings.
Went up on roof w/ known good cables and TV to double check things.
Questions:
1. Is there a way I can determine whether it is the LNBF or the Reciever? ...something easy?
2. Does transponder # matter? The GlobeCast receiver I have doesn't me to enter a transponder # of 21. Only 1 & 2 are available. The original insstructions I followed specifed TP1, not TP21. Previously TP1 worked fine, but now in the LyngeSat site I see it listed w/ TP21. Is this transponder buisiness a "red herring"?
3. If I need to replace either the LNBF or the Receiver, and I still want to get FTA programming, via AMC4, are there a few cost effective solutions you can point me to that are known to work w/ AMC4? Ideally I'd like to keep the dish that I have already, and replace only what is faulty.
thanks for your time
davy