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Originally Posted by satnutwillb
Did you try setting it to 10750 on a linear sat? Try finding a known transponder on an echo sat.and use 11250 and do the same on a linear sat,but set the lof to 10750 and make small movements from side to side and up and down for the elevation and see if that does anything.Hope that helps until some of the more experienced members with that kind of set up get here.  |
Well, yes I did try for a linear bird (121W) using 10750 MHz LNB settings with no luck. I always try every TP.
To simplify ever more, and to check the
Invacom LNB itself, I connected the Invacom directly to my Pansat 3500SD. No motor, no switch just a direct LNB _ receiver connection. Now the signal strength (on the 3500SD's
installation antenna page) is a little higher and seems to stay around 65% - 70% and independent of dish position. The quality is always zero. There are two things for sure that I don't understand:
1. Why do I get a virtually constant sig strength of around 60 - 70% no matter where I point the dish? Is there some kind of 'background' radiation I'm picking up? I live in a remote mountain location and find this unlikely. At this point, the 3500's (STB) sig strength feature seem useless. Is it time to get a real coax based sig meter.
Sadoun was supposed to supply one with my M-3 bundled motorized dish/LNB/motor system purchase, but they never did.
2. If I ignore the Pansat 3500SD sig strength, should I only watch the quality bar when looking for birds? What exactly does the 'quality' bar indicate?
.............. I'll keep trying but I'm running out of things to try.