installation blues..relocated dish:zero quality

[petrai]

I had my dish installed in a provisional fashion, on a piece of plywood on my roof, found a reasonable signal (high 80s) quality (80s), and was happy for two years. I finally put in a fixed mast, thought to get a few more channels with a dead level setup, but alas now I have a red bar in the 70s for signal and zilch in quality, I think the position is fairly dead on, and the location is just a foot above its previous incarnation...I have a Fortec dvb 786v3, universal lnbf, 30 inch dish, and would like to find telstar 5 again, any ideas where Ive gone wrong.

[bobkat]

Its just a matter of patience. Take the receiver and a small TV set up on the roof and align the dish again. Also make sure the settings have not changed in the receiver; like L.O. frequency = 10,600 MHz. Also make sure you are on an active transponder on T5.

Check out lyngsat ---> http://www.lyngsat.com/ia5.html

kat

[petrai]

bobkat, I think I have pretty much nailed the satellite location using a sat finder, which agrees with compass bearings and my markings indicating the angles on the previous installation, the receiver defaults to tp16 for telstar 5 and the frequency appears to be accurate viz a viz the lyngsat listings...could I have blown out the "flux capacitor" (you add the technical term excuse the ad lib) in the lnbf by connecting and disconnecting the cable with the system live? Are there any other things I am ignoring... I had no problem picking up a weak green before in this location and now I am still in the red here. thanks petrai

[bobkat]

Originally Posted by petrai

...could I have blown out the "flux capacitor" (you add the technical term excuse the ad lib) in the lnbf by connecting and disconnecting the cable with the system live?

I have never porked an LNB by disconnecting the cable with the receiver on but I guess its possible. Try another LNB.

kat