Thread: AMC6 OK today?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

dont know why but usually it gets fixed soon

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

regards

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!