? ODD transponders on 101 sat ?

[wejones]

I'm curious whether anyone else has noticed any problem with the odd transponders on the 101 sat? I always have one of the music channels come on in the morning, but this morning it was all breaking up, and not locking on one of my 2 receivers, and was just barely locking on the other receiver. Reception was fine on the 119 sat, but I'm only subscribed to local channels on that, so only 1 (I think even) transponder. When the sun dried up the fog and warmed things up, both receivers locked again, however the signal strength on the odd transponders is only around 50, while the even transponders are all in the 90s. I've had one polarity go out completely before on one receiver only, when the LNBF power failed, but I've never seen the reception go out partially on one polarity like this with both receivers. I'm leaning toward thinking it's a LNBF problem.

[rainman]

thats what it sounds lke Bill. your lnbf maybe going bad try a hair drier on it and see if it has become temp senstive.

[wejones]

Well I had a chance to play with this today, and although I was sure that it wasn't, it turned out that the dish got knocked out of alignment. I may have knocked it with an extension broom I use to knock snow off dishes, but I'm almost guessing that some turkeys landed on it and knocked it crooked (we've got a bunch of wild turkeys that roam the area, and there were fresh turkey tracks in the yard.... boy do turkeys have BIG FEET, the prints are about 7" long.) For some reason, I never tightened the bolts down on the DTV dish, and it doesn't take much for the whole thing to rotate on the pole.

But anyway, I nudged the aim a bit to the west, and now all the sats/polarities are up in the 90s. It's strange though that when the thing was aimed wrong, that it seemed to affect the odd transponders more than even transponders.