AMC6 OK today?

**Jim S.** · 11-29-2009 02:31 PM

Is the you-know-who mux on AMC6 coming in strong for everyone today? I'm trying to peak my 18" dish on that bird after it got moved during a storm and I have GBN coming in good and two feeds coming in stronger than I ever though possible, but not a blip on the quality meter for the mux no matter how much or which way I nudge the dish. I always found that it peaked at a different spot than GBN for some reason (adjacent-bird interference probably), but not getting it at all is making me question my sanity

**DJ Rob** · 11-29-2009 02:33 PM

It's coming in perfect here.

**Jim S.** · 11-29-2009 03:17 PM

Thanks, I don't have a clue what's going on with my system then. It used to work fine on the 18" 99% of the time.

**Raysat67** · 11-29-2009 03:18 PM

Ditto.

**Iceberg** · 11-29-2009 05:31 PM

signal low maybe?

But its working fine here in Minneapolis on a 30" dish

**tamuin** · 11-29-2009 05:51 PM

It's funny that you mention this, I have been having some problems with the NBC mux on AMC6 too.

Sometimes I can pick up GBN fine, but not the NBC mux. I find that having the motor move off of AMC 6 and then back to AMC 6 seems to fix the problem.

One odd thing about my problem is that the GBN signal is the same (in terms of signal strength and quality) no matter what.

I have a 90cm motorized dish and the NBC mux comes in strong Q=75~85.

No problem with anything else, I can hit all of the ku sats from 30W to 129W.

**Jim S.** · 11-29-2009 06:14 PM

Maybe it's just below the threshold of receivability for some reason, this is an 18" dish after all. But it's weird that it was coming in pixelated in the rain a few days ago, til the wind started. Now the sky is clear and I can't even tell that the transponder is there. The signal meter goes up like one point, and the quality never moves off 0. I've got non-permanent feeds on that bird blasting in stronger than I've ever had. Stronger than GBN, in fact.

It's not that much of a big deal because I have subscription TV -- although once in a while they'd put Universal Sports on and I don't have any other source for that. It's just that I hate not knowing what's wrong.

**mikelib** · 11-29-2009 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by Jim S.

Is the you-know-who mux on AMC6 coming in strong for everyone today? I'm trying to peak my 18" dish on that bird after it got moved during a storm and I have GBN coming in good and two feeds coming in stronger than I ever though possible, but not a blip on the quality meter for the mux no matter how much or which way I nudge the dish. I always found that it peaked at a different spot than GBN for some reason (adjacent-bird interference probably), but not getting it at all is making me question my sanity

Jim,
Check out this post: http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air...uestion-2.html (Ohio News Net question) I was on AMC 6 yesterday with an 18" dish and a 500 dish, the pictures will show you the SQ of the mux.
Mike Lib

**turbosat** · 11-29-2009 07:37 PM

Jim S, I have the opposite problem! Can't get the GBN channel, haven't seen it in weeks, so I thought maybe it had gone off the satellite. Everything else is fine (this is a .90cm dish). Maybe its just the curvature of the earth or something lol. There's just some combinations of freq and SR my receivers seem to be blind to.

**Jim S.** · 11-29-2009 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by mikelib

Jim,
Check out this post: http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air...uestion-2.html (Ohio News Net question) I was on AMC 6 yesterday with an 18" dish and a 500 dish, the pictures will show you the SQ of the mux.
Mike Lib

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.