Thread: G3 help

I pay for programming on 4 birds.
G3
W5
G0
C3
(G1-167 for updates)

Now I am having problems with G3
Everything was working fine until the middle of the night on Friday the 6th and on Sat morning I could not get anything on G3.



I have tried to find it because I thought maybe the wind blew the dish/jack around but I can't get any quality at all (quality 1). The signal alternates between 100 and 10.
I thought maybe a tree got in the way, but overnight?
All the rest of the system works great. All channels all birds except G3
I can't even get "you have to have a subscription to get this channel" Just nothing, like it's not there
I got a rehit this morning and it made no difference

Originally Posted by Greg Mueller

I have tried to find it because I thought maybe the wind blew the dish/jack around but I can't get any quality at all (quality 1). The signal alternates between 100 and 10.

I'm getting Signal 100 Quality 99 so G3 is working here. Every so often my 922 is off a few counts and I have to move the dish over about 7 to ten clicks to regain best signal. Most of the time I have to move it to the west.

What size dish?

What happens when u press options 605 and goto the C menu (I think its the C Menu) for your true EBNO reading?

Originally Posted by ikki

What size dish?

What happens when u press options 605 and goto the C menu (I think its the C Menu) for your true EBNO reading?

10' dish

Not sure what EBNO means
Looked at the C menu and don't see that

From Iceberg;

"Options 6-0-5 right arrow to Diagnostic C. IN the right corner there is a + - number. The higher the + number, the more signal you have. It will stay at -3.0 to start"

"The key thing with these DCII boxes is they are PAINFULLY slow to react when aiming a dish. "

Hopefully that will help

Third line down on the far right side I have a +9.8

We've had rainy weather this weekend and I am starting to get into the trees way over there. I guess the rainfade + wet trees might do it.
During windstorms I would lose lock occasionally when it was working.

Maybe I'm just below the signal lock threshold?

Time for a chainsaw?

You might look at your TDT count too. Go to diagnostics screen G to see what the TDT (Transponder Data Table) count is, when it reaches 1920 strange things can happen.

To get to the diagnosis screen do options 6, 0, 5 and push the left arrow
key once to get to diagnosis screen G. In the middle of the top line is a
four digit number.

It's 1748


I did a spread sheet on my Sats and their positions and how many counts I have between and I should be sitting right on G3

Pesky trees I bet

I would think that with a EBNO reading of +9.8 you should be getting something.

From Iceburg

The higher the ebno, the less amount of rain fade you have. In most cases these are the "guidelines"
+3.5 to have a signal
+3.5 to +5.0 to keep a stable picture...rain fade very possible
+5.0 to +6.0 nice solid picture but rain fade is possible
+6.0 to +8.0 strong signal
+8.0 to +10.0 really strong picture
+10.0 and above....highly unlikely the signal would ever go out