Anyone have problems with some G19 channels?

[shibby191]

Been having issues with a few channels on G19. Not all of them mind you but some. Mainly the 3 news channels (Russia Today, Al Jaz, etc) and a few of the religious channels the signal quality won't lock and bounces between 60ish and 0. But others like Safe and TBN come in solid around 60. Everything on AMC is rock solid between 70 and 95.

I have the new DVR and just manually ran the new update yesterday evening.

Just wondering if anyone else is getting this issue.

[wescopc]

They are coming in fine here in Oregon.
Bob

[MikeC]

Did the new update have any effect? I am not positive (that the update made the difference) but it seemed to (I am in Michigan, BTW). If I scroll through all the Glorystar channels now, they all come in with no breakup. Not long ago, most of the G19 channels broke up too much to watch (depending on the day; some days were better than others).

Mike

[shibby191]

No, the update has not helped. I had thought the update would fix it. I'll unplug the box and reboot it tonight and see if that helps.

[elder]

The update was a fiasco for me. GLC was broadcasting in Arabic and I kept waiting for the translation which never came. I went out to a meeting, returned in time for my favorite program which is Light of the Southwest. It was five minutes til start time and still Arabic. I punched info and saw that it was the other GLC which used to really also be GLC on TP12060. I tried a single TP search and my DVR-1100c wouldn't lock on TP12177. Finally with one minute to go I tuned the LO to 10752 it locked and I went directly to a single TP scan and recovered TP12177, but GLC came in as channel 2036. I logged on the forum to complain and found that I now need to perform another OTA. Too bad GLC is no longer on TP12060 as it locks easily on my system.

[Glorystar1]

Sorry, but the "fiasco" did not result from the update. GLC channel was scheduled to be shut down on the old transponder on January 1st and Glorystar receivers were updated to tune the new transponder.

The uplinker reverted the GLC channel back to the original transponder. Glorystar issued a new channel update as soon as we found out about the channel change. A new channel list is now in the OTA stream.

Your receiver will be automatically updated tomorrow evening or you can perform an "update now" in the OTA menu to force the receiver to update now.

[elder]

I accept blame for not paying attention. For a considerable period of time I had both GLC locations on my favorite list and when 12177 failed to lock, or if I was setting a timer I would choose the more reliable 12060. Then one day not so long ago 12060 went Arabic and I deleted it from my favorite list. I was just asleep at the wheel and missed the fact that the update chose the wrong one, both still carried the GLC label. I forced an update (I still don't think I have ever received more than one auto-update) and all is well.

[shibby191]

Rebooting the receiver didn't help. I'll check the dish to see if it's come out of alignment but strange that only some on G19 won't lock. But you never know!

[elder]

shibby191, I am wondering if your problem is not related to my mystery problem with TP 12177? I don't often watch the three channels you mention, but noticed they are not always there so decided to take a peek this morning. Al Jaz wasn't there but the other two were . I performed the test Brian had me do with TP 12177. I went to Channel Search, selected TP 11999 (Al Jaz), selected LNF and began to detune the LO from 10750. . . when I got to 10746 I got a lock and it held down to 10741.

In the past with this test on TP 12177 it was concluded that I had a bad LO. However, I now suspect a more subtle and mysterious receiver problem as I am on the third LNBF in the G19 position and the problem is not consistent.

[shibby191]

Thanks. Last night I made sure I had the latest OTA update from the other day (1.10 I think) and unplugged the receiver. I repeaked the dish a bit, mainly just the LNB bracket tilt as it was a little loose. Booted back up and things were a bit better but still problems on a handful of channels. Mostly on just one or two transponders. I plan to make a list of each channel and on what transponder as I think the pattern is just on a couple.