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Old 07-21-2006, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by wejones
Re freq, as Rainman says, the receivers are all a bit different, and also your LNBF will drift a little bit.
But since your freqs are showing 11715 and not 10715, then my guess was wrong, so it must be like Rainman said, that you just don't have enough signal strength, although it is very strange that you can get 99% quality on Tips, and not have enough signal for PBS. I don't get that good a signal on the two channels you're getting, yet I have no problems at all on PBS.
Only other thing I can think of is signal loss in the coax, as this often tends to affect the higher freqs. How long is your coax, (although length is seldom a problem unless it's over 200'), and what kind of coax is it? If you have reasonable quality RG6, this shouldn't be a problem either, unless you got water in the coax or something, however if by chance you're using cheaper cable, like RG59, and have a long length, then I could see you losing the higher freqs.
One other thing, that I've seen on the Ultra, is that if you did the Power Scan using the "Symbol Range"="FULL", then sometimes it will miss transponders.... at least mine does. I usually do a scan with the high setting, and then again with the low setting, and it usually finds things.
The other thing you should do, is go into the TP scan (transponder scan). Check to see if the PBS transponders are already in memory, if not, back out, and go to edit TP/SAT , and edit the transponders by selecting NEW, then enter the data for the PBS transponders. After you've done that, go back to TP scan, or if the transponders were already there, then select one of those transponders in TP scan, and see if you get signal and quality. If you get quality, then hit OK, and it should scan in. If you don't get quality, then you still have problems, either with coax or alignment or something.
Thank you for the response. My cable is less than 75 feet, (closer to 60 feet) as I have been trying to get my HH90 motor to work porperly. So, I have been very concerned with the cable I have. It has good gold plated connectors with weather shields, it is also an RG6 cable. One thing you mention which I also wondered about was doing a transponder scan and to experiment with the settings there. If this yields no results then I feel it must also be an issue with dish setup. But it blows my mind that I am getting such good quality (no joke it's at 99% on the Tips and Patient Channels) on some transponders, but nothing on all of the tps with PBS. One more thing: It makes me wonder about the dish set up as it is now on my HH90 motor and, (when it wants to cooperate)can get most sats east and west of my true south sat. I have good signal on G10R 123W and AMC6 72W. Of course everything in between works pretty good, except for the thing I really want, the PBS stations on AMC 3. My true south sat Galaxy 11 at 91W was fine tuned to mid 70s on quality, with some tps going up higher. I'm afraid if I miss with my fine tuning to hit AMC3 I will screw up the arc and lose the other sats.
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