Thread: AMC 6 Frustrations

Anyone have any suggestions for me? I get 59% quality on the stations on AMC 6, but no picture. I get the odd pixel and some chirping sound. I used to get it easily before. Other sats, with 45% quality I have solid picture with my Fortec Star Lifetime Ultra. What could be wrong here?

can you nudge your dish with the receiver? Try one bump to the left or right. AMC was finicky for me a couple days ago, but it cleared up without me doing anything.

I find the nudge to be very forgiving on AMC6, I can move it one either way, and it still hold close to steady at 59 either way. Can't get it higher, but am puzzled why this level isn't sufficient. On G10R, 45% would produce a solid picture. Its possible that elevation is out slightly. Yet I get SB6 that has Ohio News on it very strong and steady. That used to be weaker for me than AMC6's signals.

Note: I changed to an XtremeII Lnb. I deleted the channels and rescanned just in case it was a slight frequency problem. No improvement. I do get a religious channel on there very strong signal and perfect picture.

ONN is usually stronger for me than anything on AMC6, but other than the other day, AMC6 has had no issues for me.

I no longer have my Fortec, but it does seem weird that 59% quality is not enough all of a sudden.

No wet trees in the LOS or anything ? What happens if you got back to the old LNB?

You are right, ONN is stronger for me as well, its around 74% quality. I wish I knew exactly what the numbers were on AMC6 prior to the changes I've made. I releveled my pole and played around with the dish and motor elevation. Its hard to read precisely the motor elevation on an SG2100. The pointer cast into the housing is a little odd looking, its an arrow head, but its hard to tell exactly what its pointing to. So, its possible to be off half a degree I'd say.

You are not alone in frustration with AMC6! As was discussed last month when you raised the same issue, it appears the problem must be with the source or transmission. While my AMC6 LNB is off-centre, AMC6 has always been a very strong satellite, and usually on the mux you are talking about I get in the 60s on my Pansat. However, if the quality drops to around 45 (like it did tonight) I get serious pixelation. Usually a 45 is good, on any other satellite, and I don't have any problems unless the quality drops to around 25 (and some are fine even lower).

Solution? Don't know, but I have deleted the channels, deleted the transponder, and re-scanned without any improvement.

Sounds like elevation problem, I'm getting 67/60 on those SatOps channels, and on most of the
news feed channels too on AMC6, with this 1m primestar. No problems with that sat for me lately, thankfully. Could be some erratic sat problems I just happened to have missed.

also take into consideration the FEC. if its a 7/8 or even a 5/6 FEC, you need more signal to keep it stable.

Most KU is 3/4 FEC but that little bit can make a difference. Example is AMC1 C-band

I can get TLN mux & Ion mux with a 30-35 quality...but DWTV (which has a 7/8 FEC) I need a 60 on the Pansat for stable picture