[radiobob]

Well, all the hard work and great advice have finally paid off: I'm at last able to get something or other on about 10 satellites. Judging from some reception difficulties more toward the middle of the arc, I've still got some more tweaking to do, but that's okay.

Here's the question du jour: recognizing that different transponders operate at different power levels, some signals are rock solid while others on the same satellite (or one only a couple of degrees away) are marginal or unusable...is this still just an alignment issue?

For example, Gospel Network on AMC6 (72W) is so strong it makes my teeth hurt. I've honestly never seen 75% signal and quality before. On the other hand, Ohio News on SBS6 (74W) is unwatchable with 71% signal and 2-5% quality (clearly we need more bits to get pix).

Likewise, on G10R (123W), the Pentagon pumps out 76% sig/35% qual and KFDF is 73% sig/23% qual, while KTWO is 76% sig/0% qual and nothing comes in on the 11720 cluster of stations. The Viewsat seems to need about 10-15% quality level before the dropouts become too bad.

So, how do I get more fire down the wire? More wrench-twisting tweaking ceremonies? More sheet metal?

Bob