AMC6 OK today?

**Jim S.** · 12-03-2009 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by B.J.

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

Could you summarize that for me? The forum required registration, and when I did register, I couldn't navigate the site for some reason. The link takes me to the login page even though I tell it to remember that I'm logged in, and I tried looking at the forums myself but every forum link takes me to the same forum. I have no idea what's going on.

**Blindowl1234** · 12-03-2009 09:59 PM

Signal back to normal for me this afternoon and evening....Blind

**Jim S.** · 12-08-2009 10:55 PM

After being utterly dead for the past week for me, the goofy thing came back tonight in the middle of a snowstorm. I swear I didn't touch anything. Of course, being an 18" dish, it didn't survive the snowstorm for very long. But at least I know for certain it's not my LNB or cables.

**MrMars** · 12-08-2009 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by Jim S.

Could you summarize that for me? The forum required registration, and when I did register, I couldn't navigate the site for some reason. The link takes me to the login page even though I tell it to remember that I'm logged in, and I tried looking at the forums myself but every forum link takes me to the same forum. I have no idea what's going on.

It said AMC6 is having solar panel issues and NASA is moving to AMC3 Cband Transponder 15 on 1/16/2010

**mikelib** · 12-08-2009 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by Jim S.

After being utterly dead for the past week for me, the goofy thing came back tonight in the middle of a snowstorm. I swear I didn't touch anything. Of course, being an 18" dish, it didn't survive the snowstorm for very long. But at least I know for certain it's not my LNB or cables.

Jim,
I do not have a permanent dish set up, I use a motorized 90 cm on a tripod that I carry in and out of the garage and I have a 500 dish that also carry in and out of the garage. 72W is one of my favorite satellites and one of the first one I tune in when I am working around the garage. I usually use the 500 dish, and today the signal on the NBC mux was just at the threshold of my receiver. I did a blind scan and was able to receive 4 feeds with decent SQ. I don’t know what happen to the MSNBC mux all summer long I was getting good SQ at least 10 to 15% above threshold. I have the 500 dish mounted on a lazy susan and I was able to tune 72, 74 and 79 without changing skew or elevation. Now it seems that I have increase the elevation a little through out the day to keep the mux locked in at the receivers’ threshold. If I have time and the weather holds up I am going to change the LNB and realign the 500 dish to see if I can improve the signal quality of the MSNBC mux.

**freewave** · 12-16-2009 11:17 PM

Dose anyone know why the audio is missing on channel one of the nbc mux on amc6? It seems to me I was getting audio on all channels just a few days ago.

Thanks freewave

**Iceberg** · 12-16-2009 11:18 PM

known issue...been like that for a few days

dont know why but usually it gets fixed soon

**freewave** · 12-17-2009 12:29 PM

Thanks ice thought I might be the only one with that problem.

regards

**turbosat** · 12-18-2009 10:03 AM

Now I can believe that satellite is getting weaker, for the first time nothing will lock on my 1m dish. OOPS IM A LIAR-it just popped in and locked.
Raining steady here but until this morning I hadn't seen a time when my 1m wouldn't lock something on that bird. Maybe they'll move everything over to 74!