Again, I wish that there was a "Troubleshooting" section of this forum, because there are a lot of topics that aren't really
installation related that there doesn't seem to be a category for.
Anyway, yesterday, I was trying to move my fixed Primestar dish over to a new sat to watch an NFL preseason game, and ran into a strange symptom.
I hooked up my Channel Master meter first in battery powered mode, found what I thought was the sat, then switched to the mode where it was powered by the receiver, and started peaking the sat, then found I was on the next sat over, so I went back outside, and moved over to the next sat. While peaking on the sat I found, suddenly the meter stopped registering, ie no squeal, and no signal reading. I thought this was strange, but thought perhaps it's battery had gone bad again, even though I was just using it in battery powered mode. So I switched over to the
SF95 meter. It too, had no signal at all. No squeal or meter reading, no matter how high the knob was turned. I assumed that somehow the receiver had stopped sending DC voltage to the receiver. So I went inside, and was surprised to see that the receiver was still receiving a relatively good signal on the transponder I was using to search for the sat. And yet still no indication of voltage or squeal or meter reading at the dish.
While inside, I started playing with the
DiseqC switch settings. I switched from port 3 (my Primestar dish) to port 2 (linear on my Fortec dish), got a signal on that dish. Then switched back to port 3. As soon as I did, even from inside the house, I could hear the squeal start coming from the SF95 out at the dish. I thought this was weird, but I went back outside, started playing with peaking the aim again, then again, I lost all signal on the SF95. Went inside, switched from DiseqC port 3 to port 2 and back to 3.... and again, the squeal came back. I think this happened a third time. I was in a hurry to get the thing set up so I could watch the NFL game, and eventually quit before getting a perfect signal, and never did spend the time to figure out what was going on. I thought that perhaps I had a bad cable somewhere, but why would the meter cut off completely but with no difference in S/Q on the receiver with respect to when the meters were indicating or not indicating a signal????
I'll probably go through the same thing next weekend before the next preseason game, and hopefully I'll spend more time trying to figure out what's causing this, but I'm curious whether anyone has any idea of what might be causing the above symptoms. Just doesn't make any sense that the LNBF would still be sending good signal to the receiver if it wasn't getting any voltage.
Linear Mode
