Problems receiving satellites

[bobkat]

Sorry I didn't realize this thread got hijacked by the guy wanting to know about the star choice lnb. Shawnfoo: create another thread!! do not post here anymore.

Good point. I didn't realize he had hijacked this thread. I created another thread with all the Starchoice related posts.

kat

[dumb&dumber]

Sorry to be so long in getting back to you.
We followed the instructions in your excellent post., thank you.

The first question that arose - in my receiver software it lists AMC 3 at 87 and also AMC 3/C at 87. On the AMC 3 there is no TP 12110 but when I went through the transponders I can get a green signal on several TP. On the AMC 3/C there is a transponder 12110. When set manually to this transponder there is no quality and poor signal, even by moving the dish. I did adjust it to the AMC 3 manually, and got channel WDSU from new orleans amongst them.
So my question is , if I can receive the station WDSU, (the TP is 12190) is there a way to tell which satellite I am receiving.
Also, when advise me to find AMC3, how do I know if I have found it, and not another satellite?

Thank you again

[rainman]

yes wdsu is on intelsat 8 which is next to amc3. rainman =D>

[alfi]

Sorry to be so long in getting back to you.
We followed the instructions in your excellent post., thank you.

The first question that arose - in my receiver software it lists AMC 3 at 87 and also AMC 3/C at 87. On the AMC 3 there is no TP 12110 but when I went through the transponders I can get a green signal on several TP. On the AMC 3/C there is a transponder 12110. When set manually to this transponder there is no quality and poor signal, even by moving the dish. I did adjust it to the AMC 3 manually, and got channel WDSU from new orleans amongst them.
So my question is , if I can receive the station WDSU, (the TP is 12190) is there a way to tell which satellite I am receiving.
Also, when advise me to find AMC3, how do I know if I have found it, and not another satellite?

Thank you again

dumb&dumber

In AMC 3/C, C stands for C-band and to get this sat you will need a big dish, 6 ft or bigger. Choose only sats with K or Ku.

Alfi

[dumb&dumber]

Hello again, thanks for all the input. We are having relative success. Followed the instructions and got AMC3, cannot get signal on 12110 on AMC 3 but is available on AMC 3/C
Continued on, using USALS, blind searched and got AMC 3 , no radio stations but got 27 TV channels, most of them are subscription,. Channels we got include Bloomberg affiliates, Channel 300, to 304, newsource main, live events, entertainment REQUE, market source, channel 5 washington, no PBS which lyngsat shows to be free.
Moved over to Galaxy 10R, seems to duplicate channels when scanning. Total number of channels are 26, no radio stations, about half the channels are duplicates so about 13 unique channels, most are subscription.
Channels found on this satellite start with channel one, then channel two, channel three VBA, channel 4, then EES, channel 5, TV2 11804V, TV1 11804V, test channel, volkswagen GALXE, volkswagen GALXE FR, voldwagen GALXE E etc

Where are the other channels that are listed in the lyngsat for these satellites, especially PBS, the TP listed dont pick up quality signal. When scanned I can pick up the above channels but not all those listed.

We can switch from one satellite to the other, numerous times, but not tried any other satellites as we dont seem to be getting the full amount of channels yet.
Is there something we are not doing?

Thanks again for everyone's help, is Druze Tito out there?

[kevision]

Hello again, thanks for all the input. We are having relative success. Followed the instructions and got AMC3, cannot get signal on 12110 on AMC 3 but is available on AMC 3/C

AMC3/AMC3C is the same satellite. They are separated in your reciever becuase, as mentioned, one is for Cband channels (C) and the other is for KU. For some reason, you have a KU frequency (any 5 digit freqency) programmed into the Cband side. I'd delete the entire satellite (AMC3C) to avoid additional confusion.

Continued on, using USALS, blind searched and got AMC 3 , no radio stations but got 27 TV channels, most of them are subscription,. Channels we got include Bloomberg affiliates, Channel 300, to 304, newsource main, live events, entertainment REQUE, market source, channel 5 washington, no PBS which lyngsat shows to be free.

That's AMC3. I just scanned it too and did not get the PBS stations. There was a thread somewhere about people losing those, but I wasn't paying attention. It's weird.

Where are the other channels that are listed in the lyngsat for these satellites, especially PBS, the TP listed dont pick up quality signal. When scanned I can pick up the above channels but not all those listed.

Lyngsat is not the most up to date resource (though it is relatively current), so that list will, im most cases, not match what you scan. I have a giant wall blocking my view to G10, so I can't confirm what you have there. Try some more sats. If you are consistantly not getting everything you think you should, then you might need to tweak the elevation very slightly.
You are very very close though to locking this all down.

[kevision]

ha! i just followed my own advice and very slightly adjusted the elevation on my dish. PBS is there. maybe at lower power than before, but good enough quality.

[DruzeTito]

Hello D and D...

i am glad to hear you have success. If you can get some channels on G10R to AMC 3 then you are definitely getting closer to track the arc perfectly. Have you tried Intelsat 5 ? And yes.. the pbs channels on AMC 3 are weak as hell even with my 90 cm dish. That is why you need to do your best with millimeter tweaking (mostly the dish elevation) to get it decently. I don't know which receiver you had but anything over 40 percent quality i think is decent.

[dumb&dumber]

Hello again, been having fun over the holidays, showing friends what we can get for free! Trying to improve things - AMC3 , visual good but no sound on most of channels, is there a trick to getting sound? Thank you.

[kevision]

The PBS stations on AMC3 use digital audio. you will need an AC3 (dolby digital) receiver to hear these. see the end of this thread for more info:

http://sadoun.net/viewtopic.php?t=5364&highlight=