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Originally Posted by rleehamn
I was trying to match the lnb; but then I realize my lnb wasn't in that range. Somehow when I bought the lnb I had it in my head that I got the one that would cover the most out of what I've selected. But when I went out and read the range off the lnb, I found out that I was dead wrong.
If I would of look at the lnb first to see if it would have cover 11250 first then I would of known what was going on. Like I said I had it in my head that the lnb I got would work.
Thanks
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It's not really the "range" of the LNB that is the issue. Your lnbf covers the frequency just fine. The frequencies that you are trying to "cover" are the 12200 to 12700 band, and the range of your lnbf is
10.7 - 12.75 GHz, so the range of the lnbf isn't an issue. The 11250 is not something you're trying to "cover" with the LNBF, the 11250 is just one of several local oscillator freqs used by different LNBFs, and you need to match your receiver settings to these values.
Anyway, the reason that you are having problems picking up NASA is NOT due to range, but it's due to the fact that you have a linear polarization lnbf rather than a circular polarization.
It is still possible that you might be able to tune this channel if you mess with the polarization. I'm not sure what kind of "scan" you did, ie a transponder scan, a satellite scan or a blind scan, but I'm guessing that you did a satellite scan, because a blind scan would have come up with some scrambled channels rather than nothing as you indicated. Anyway, I would recommend that you do a transponder scan using the 12370 frequency. However I would first create a new 12370 transponder which has the opposite polarity from that listed in your transponder list for that satellite. Ie if your transponder list has a 12370 R, create a 12370 L . Then do a transponder scan on both these transponders. There is a possibility that if you previously did a satellite scan, which scanned 12370 R, that perhaps 12370 L might work. If this doesn't work, you can still possibly get the channel by turning your lnbf a bit in it's mount, but this would mean you'd be degrading all your other channels, so you probably won't want to do that.
I've been able to tune the NASA channel with a linear lnbf in the past, but not always. It seems to depend on what interferrence you get from other transponders on the sat. THe best way to get that channel is to pick up a used
DTV dish (I've picked up several of these free), and aim this at the 119 sat.