Thread: AMC6 OK today?

Originally Posted by Jim S.

I've got a signal strength of 87 on that transponder on my Coolsat 7000, but I have a signal strength in the low 80s anywhere in the vicinity since it's almost my south satellite and the spacing is so close in that region.

In contrast, I have S 90 and Q 76 on GBN, and S 92 and Q 60 on the HD football feeds tonight. However I had my dish aimed before, I only had about half that on GBN. The feeds were stronger than GBN but not as strong as now. The NBC mux varied a lot, but it was usually stronger than GBN. The only screwy thing was that when I set up the dish the first time I peaked it on GBN and the mux was weak, so I peaked on the mux instead. But they were both always there except in rain, and I moved around in search of it quite a bit this afternoon with no results at all in a clear sky.

Maybe tomorrow I'll have to replace the ends on the cable in case I've got a short or water in it or something.

Your TS sat would be 74 West the ONN TV Channel the same as mine in NJ, I'll also check tomorrow, I will be working around the garage and putting up Christmas decoration so I wil plop the 500 outside so I can lsten to the market news on CNCB. I will use my Coolsat 5K so I can give you the coolsat quality meter reading and I'll loop in the Fortec Dynamic.
Mike Lib

Thanks for the offer, let me know what you come up with. When I was tinkering around yesterday I tried to get 74W on the 18" dish and I didn't have any luck, but I was kind of impatient since my main mission was to figure out what had gone wrong at 72W. Maybe the extra few inches of a Dish 500 vs a Dish 300 really do make a difference. If you've ever tried it, what does the 500 get you on 97W? The 300 only got me 6 transponders reliably.

Jim I tried getting 97 on my Dish500 dish a couple of weeks back, seems like I got about 110 channels (out of about 238 or so thats on that satellite). Not too shabby. I didn't spend a lot of time on that location, with some more fine tuning I might've done better-I was trying to get over to 105 but it got dark before I got to 103 so I gave up on it, and left it on 79 lol).

Originally Posted by Jim S.

Thanks for the offer, let me know what you come up with. When I was tinkering around yesterday I tried to get 74W on the 18" dish and I didn't have any luck, but I was kind of impatient since my main mission was to figure out what had gone wrong at 72W. Maybe the extra few inches of a Dish 500 vs a Dish 300 really do make a difference. If you've ever tried it, what does the 500 get you on 97W? The 300 only got me 6 transponders reliably.

Sorry too much rain today, I'm a fair weather FTAer, maybe tomorrow.
Mike Lib

The NBC mux transponder is very weak today, I am using the 500 Dish and the SQ is so low 25% that I can't even get a picture. I got GBN and at least 6 active feeds, some of the feeds are for CNBC and I can't get CNBC on the mux. This is very strange, all summer as I work around the garage I would plop the dish outside tune to the correct azmuith and the mux would pop right. I was watching the mux only last week with a fairly good signal, took pictures and posted them on another thread. I'm at a lost to explain it, maybe the FTA signal is affected by the winter season.
Mike Lib

A-ha, maybe it's not me then, maybe it's the signal and my Dish 300. When last I checked, I had GBN, two strong feeds, and a week feed. You have three more feeds, yet you still can't get the mux. Thanks for the sanity check. I'm glad I didn't mess with the alignment too much, as I'm getting better feeds than I used to.

mikelib I tried with my dish500 dish about3pm, for an hour, never did get those channels either. Was beginning to think the dish was looking into the top of a tree, but I was getting 3-4 good feeds, the GBN channel very well. Finally said to hell with it and put it back on 74. Does a great job on H2.

Originally Posted by turbosat

mikelib I tried with my dish500 dish about3pm, for an hour, never did get those channels either. Was beginning to think the dish was looking into the top of a tree, but I was getting 3-4 good feeds, the GBN channel very well. Finally said to hell with it and put it back on 74. Does a great job on H2.

I had the same resuts as you, I did manage to get a signal but the SQ was very low and it would pop in and out. It's what I call a peek-aboo signal. I moved back and forth between 72 & 74 caught a cooking show on 74, watch that while I was fixing Christmas Tree Lights. I'll try again tomorrow, I will use the 500 Dish and the 90 cm and see what I can get.
Mike Lib

I haven't noticed any issues with AMC6, however the following post on Satforums might be related to issues above.


http://forums.satforums.com/SatForum...hp?msg=15862.1