Thread: Need Help with RTV

I'm using a Fortec Star Platinum NA receiver with a 6ft dish and get the following readings on 83 deg from Southeastern PA:

TP 3 11775 V 4234 Q40/46%
TP 22 12140 V 30000 Q53/60%
TP 23 12160 V 30000 Q53/60%



sadly.....

TP 11735 H 4444 Q0%

I'm thinking that TP 3 is so strong that its knocking TP1 out. Anyone in or near SE PA picking this channel up?

Any suggestions or assumptions would be much appreciated?

Many thanks!

Try turning the LNB while on one of the other transponders to get more signal.
Also try entering the transponder by hand then scan the transponder which you may have already done?

Good luck

Try entering the APID and VPID manually in your receiver if it will allow that.

Do you have the LNB skew set properly? Are you using a linear LNB? I would think that a 6 footer would give Q=100% on TP22 and 23 (Hughesnet data). I get RTN with Q= 40 to 50 here on a .75m dish on my Pansat 9200 meter (threshold around 30).

GL, Eric

I'm in s-ontario across detroit & i got both rtn on 30" dish, universal lnb, on
cw700. Q=46-52%
I'm hopping to have them on bad weather too.

I agree with Oldford, you should be getting higher quality on the other TPs. The dish is probably not optimally aimed, or as mentioned above, skew may be off.

Hang in there buddy, It's difficult to find. What LNB are you using? If you have not yet looked into it I would certainly recommend a DMX522 from Galaxy Marketing
DMX522 Dual Ku Band Ku LNB LNBF for Free To Air FTA with 0.2dB Noise Figure | JSC322

They're cheap & they are worth their weight in gold. Wait they are gold

Originally Posted by Electro960

I'm using a Fortec Star Platinum NA receiver with a 6ft dish and get the following readings on 83 deg from Southeastern PA:

TP 3 11775 V 4234 Q40/46%
TP 22 12140 V 30000 Q53/60%
TP 23 12160 V 30000 Q53/60%
TP 11735 H 4444 Q0%

Electro,

I don't know how similar the meter scales are between your Fortec Star Platinum and my Fortec Star Dynamic, but I am reading the following quality from these TPs:

11735 (H) 35-44%
11775 (H) 77-91%
11838 (H) 56-65%
12140 (V) 52-60%
12160 (H) 53-64%

I do wish my Dynamic's meter indication was a little more stable than this. It is difficult to obtain a really good reading with it jumping around like this. You might try adjusting the dish alignment with an in-line meter or another receiver that does have a more stable indication if your Platinum's meter is as jumpy as mine.

The dish I am using is a 1.2 M GeoSatPro, INVACOM QPH-031 LNBF, Fortec Star Dynamic receiver and about 300 feet of cable. I am near Omaha, NE.

The signal I am getting from the RTN (RTV) TP isn't much over the threshold for my Dynamic (I think that the threshold is around 32%).

Your quality readings from the HughesNet TPs aren't too different from mine, but with the difference in our dish sizes, I think you should be getting some better results here, and especially with TP 11735 since it is currently reading nothing at all.

As others have also mentioned, I suspect that your dish is not aligned as well as it can be. But, remember that TP 11735 is well known to be much weaker that the others on AMC 9. I have struggled with peaking my dish and LNBF just to muster what I have currently and keep it there ever since RTN moved here from 123.0W.

I would play around with peaking the quality signal with one of the other TPs to max them out, and then recheck 11735. Hopefully you can pull up the signal on 11735 so that it is detectable and then peak on it.

RADAR

Originally Posted by Auric

Hang in there buddy, It's difficult to find. What LNB are you using? If you have not yet looked into it I would certainly recommend a DMX522 from Galaxy Marketing
DMX522 Dual Ku Band Ku LNB LNBF for Free To Air FTA with 0.2dB Noise Figure | JSC322

They're cheap & they are worth their weight in gold. Wait they are gold

I'm using the GeoSat CK1 C/KU Band LNBF, bought from Sadoun,
GeaoSat Pro C KU Band Prime Focus LNBF

.

I did try turning the LNB a little and happy to report that I now have 13%, LOL. Not enough to lock though. Perhaps the LNB is not aligned properly, I'll check that next.

Also, my LNB setting is set at UNI in opposed to 10750.

Thanks for all the responses and suggestions :-)