Thread: No Go Shaw Direct on 100cm dish

As everyone suspected (some sooner, some later), my old-school quad-a-like was set up with Shaw Direct as a new xKu system.

D'OH!!

Glad its working now

Way to go Othea !!

Had a situation this afternoon, when I brought a 22k switch to my friend and wired everything in. He's had a single stack system for about 12 years or so. I noticed they had changed the v-code to a quad. After my friend was trying different things on the phone with Shaw (he's in his seventies), I learned that they wanted him to take his other receiver out of his wall unit and try it downstairs. It was then when I grabbed the phone. He asked who I was? I said I'm Dave, I brought the switch! HaHa
This guy had never even heard of a 2x2 22k switch LOL. After a few minutes, I finally convinced him that my friend still had his old sytem and not a new LNB/dish.

His exact words were "V code change? Oh, okay that's easy".
Within three seconds, I watched the vcode change, and six seconds later it said map download complete!

Happy Holidays everyone!

Catamount

Looks like this is the answer to my troubles as well...

Helping a Canadian friend here in Mexico trying to get his 505 working with the older 75E at his house in Mexico..

Exact same symptoms as described by Othea - vcode is 4323..

Will confirm that it all shakes out as expected

THANKS !!!

Here is an update w/ numbers.

one WSI 90-99cm dish
two standard JSC321S lnbfs, 22k switch
clear weather
ch#: signal/ Ecb
ch002: 95%/8.0 -- ch009: 75%/3.6 -- ch023: 90%/6.7 -- ch039: 80%/4.6 -- ch041: 95%/8.0 -- ch042: 95%/7.6 -- ch043: 62%/5.1 -- ch045: 95%/7.7 -- ch046: 82%/5.0 -- ch047: 95%/7.6 -- ch056: 95%/8.0 -- ch057: 95%/7.6 -- ch059: 94%/7.6 -- ch063: 94%/7.5 -- ch069: 85%/5.7 -- ch070: 98%/10.0 -- ch075: 84%/5.4 -- ch076: 83%/5.3 -- ch077: 84%/5.3 -- ch078: 83%/5.2 -- ch080: 83%/5.3 -- ch092: 83%/5.3 -- ch095: 80%/4.6 -- ch110: 95%/8.0 -- ch117: 96%/8.3 -- ch118: 96%/8.0 -- ch119: 96%/8.2 -- ch120: 96%/8.2 -- ch132: 80%/4.6 -- ch133: 96%/8.1 -- ch172: 96%/8.4 -- ch173: 95%/7.7 -- ch182: 94%/7.7 -- ch194: 97%/8.7 -- ch224: 92%/7.0 -- ch269: 77%/4.1 -- ch280: 85%/5.6 -- ch291: 83%/5.2 -- ch299: 95%/7.9 -- ch300: 95%/7.6 -- ch302: 77%/4.1 -- ch303: 94%/7.5 -- ch320: 94%/7.5 -- ch321: 94%/7.5 -- ch322: 95%/7.8 -- ch323: 94%/7.5 -- ch324: 90%/6.6 -- ch380: 89%/6.2 -- ch381: 94%/7.5 -- ch382: 88%/6.2 -- ch383: 94%/7.5 -- ch384: 94%/7.5 -- ch385: 94%/7.5 -- ch387: 88%/6.2 -- ch388: 90%/6.6 -- ch391: 90%/6.5 -- ch700: 97%/9.4 -- ch701: 98%/10.5 -- ch702: 97%/9.4 -- ch705: 93%/7.3 -- ch706: 93%/7.3 -- ch710: 97%/9.4 -- ch714: 97%/9.5 -- ch720: 97%/9.4 -- ch722: 98%/10.5 -- ch723: 97%/9.5 -- ch730: 95%/7.8 -- ch748: 97%/9.4 -- ch750: 97%/9.4 -- ch751: 97%/8.6 -- ch752: 97%/9.3 -- ch754: 97%/9.4 -- ch755: 97%/9.4 -- ch756: 97%/9.4 -- ch757: 97%/8.8 -- ch758: 97%/9.5 -- ch760: 98%/10.5 -- ch762: 98%/10.6 -- ch785: 97%/9.5 -- ch769: 94%/7.3 -- ch770: 97%/8.7 -- ch771: 95%/7.7 -- ch772: 97%/9.5 -- ch773: 97%/9.4 -- ch775: 98%/10.5 -- ch777: 97%/9.4 -- ch789: 94%/7.5 -- ch888: 96%/8.2

Othea,

Thanks for the Data. My quick review is you've got a mixed bag here. (Off the top of my head I can't convert Advanced to Classic Channel line-ups, and therefore the correct Birds / Transponders.)

But while ch760: 98%/10.5 is awsome, others like ch009: 75%/3.6 are on the marginal side if the weather turns bad. I think it's cool you've got 'em both simultaneously off a single round dish.

I took about an hour to adjust the dish and lnbfs and managed to improve the signal quality a bit.

Not much has changed on F2 (a few decimals or one or two percent here and there), but F1R is now better. Here are a few of the indicative numbers:

ch2 96%/8.2
ch9 94%/7.4
ch39 92%/7.0
...
ch70 98%/10.3 (F2 channel, so marginally better)
ch 75 96%/8.2
...
ch132 92%/6.9
...
ch280 95%/7.9
...
ch762 98%/10.8
etc.

I haven't checked all channels (and don't intend to), but Shaw Direct on 100cm is now a "Go".

Othea,

Your tweaking looks good. Glad to see Channel ch9 up to 94%/7.4. Of course it's all about compromise at the end on a single dish. HD channels need a bit more signal strength / ecbno to hold a decent picture, so a little drift toward optimizing F2 is good => as that's where the current HD channels are.

By the way, did you post a photo of your Dish / LNB configutation somewhere? It would be interesting to see how you put it together.

This is my first time to post images - hope they turn out ok.


(By the way, if you look closely at the support arms you will see that I bent them slightly to correct a minor error in the focal depth when I received the dish a couple of years ago. The focal depth for Anik F1R and F2 does not seem to be particularly sensitive, unlike most FTA satellites).