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I prefer to deal from facts, not speculation. But while we are speculating, I had a less sinister thought in mind. D9S is only licensed until July 31 2024, when it is sceduled to go to disposal orbit. D16 is going to pick up those spotbeam frequencies as national transponders, we think. They...

I have successfully used the dithering method to align DIRECTV dishes for years, as a hobbyist. A cheap analog or digital meter is all you need. With a SWM LNB, you cannot have it connected to a receiver. The receiver will start commanding the built in SWM switch to tune to many transponders...

They'd also have to replace all the HR34/H44/HR44 out there.

In order to go HEVC only, they would have to replace every existing Hx2x receiver out there and switch all Genies to headless server mode as they all came out before chipsets capable of natively decoding HEVC were available and are not powerful enough to software decode HD HEVC video. That...

Possibilities that: come to mind for a "Space Event": a Meteorite Debris (Space Junk) Thruster malfunction Power system malfunction Perhaps a need to meneuver out of position to avoid one of the first two. If there was some sort of collision, these satellites have a lot of redundancy and...

If its the entire satellite I would suspect a station keeping maneuver went wrong pointing the antennas away from earth. There is a lot of redundancy in the spacecraft like power busses, maybe a few spare transponders, etc. A complete failure is unlikely but has happened in the past.

A single port LNBF with voltage polarity selection isn't the best choice to share with 4 tuners. This type of LNBF can only output one polarity at a time. If one tuner selects a horizontal polarity transponder, the other three tuners will only have horizontal polarity transponders available...

Arlo and All, I followed your instructions and got the following…. Receiver>Switch in>0 Khz port out. Use the C band lnbf on that port and check you get a signal. (Yes) Swap the ku coax and use the 0 kHz port. Power it back up. Can you get signal on for ku? (No) Put your C band coax on...

They launched a satellite with higher powered transponders around 2000 or 2001 and moved signal meter from 0-100 to 0-125. They didn't want to adjust it and have people think they lost signal strength. At least that's what Charlie claimed on a chat back in the day, and the peanut gallery agreed!

What you see above you is DIRECTV’s standard power inserter. It’s little changed from the version that debuted with the SWM-5 in 2007. It’s not a terribly high tech piece of equipment; it’s really just a power supply with an internal splitter in it to let you pass signal through if you want to...

I have a dual power bypass splitter to try.

You know, after 12 years of shepherding this blog, I can’t believe I haven’t written a simple, concise guide to seeing if your LNB is bad. I’ve written several articles that come close to the subject, but I guess I never wrote something that takes you through simple steps to try to find out if...

Reelz on a 10' bud here in NY in the rain has a great signal. 11.7db on my meter. NASA at 15.8db.

Seems the power level on that transponder has dropped a bit. I got Reelz here on an 8.5' dish at 9.7db but I am getting some breakups.

Well, since I don't have access to a microwave spectrum analyzer I'm somewhat limited. I think my XR-3 has a spectrum analyzer though. I've never used that function before though. Not a big deal because the cost of these LNBFs are "petty cash" for me. I don't know if a regular LNB will get the...

The issue with the T90 model in North America is that the gain is equivalent to a 76cm dish. Many years ago, I experimented with a T90 and wasn't satisfied with the performance. It was fine for stronger transponders, but not adequate for weaker transponders. No doubt that the T90 is fine in...

How about a Good Samaritan from across the state :) I'm in Southwest FL and here is what I get with my setup: AMIKO_Mini_4K_S2X_1.0.56, Channelmaster/PrimeStar 1 meter H2H dish, DMS International ASC321-2 Universal KU LNBF, 0.5dB noise, 55dB gain 12.145 V 84%Q excellent 12.120 H 80%Q good...

hi, i'm the author of the post you are refering to. Right now getting 14.8 dB on 12145V, 11.9 on 12120H and 11.5 dB on 12080H, using the Inverto Home Twin LNBF. Those are what I get with perfectly clear sky. Numbers are usually slighly better in the winter (lower overall thermal noise? lower...

Hi I would need the help of a good Samaritan!!! I'm struggling to lock the transponder 19 at SES3 (12080 H 29970 3/4). The Transponder 22 is a piece of cake (12145 V 20000 3/4). With this last one I get a SNR of 93% 14.2 dB, AGC of 100%. But for transponder 19, after a fine manual tuning of...

This document is available in PDF Format! Click here to download! DIRECTV’s AIM meter is intended for installation professionals. If you’re a DIRECTV tech, you’ll generally get several hours of online training before going out into the field to use one. It comes with comprehensive instructions...

Your description is typical for the 5G N77 interference. Minor satellite signal corruption errors are corrected by the FEC, until a point where the error correction is no longer aequate. This results in loss of signal until the FEC gathers enough signal redundancy to once again decode the...

I believe the 5G interference has finally caught up with me. Since 5G started, I have only had issues with 3.7GHz feeds. Oddly, I could even lock a 3.425GHZ channel on 115w without any interference. But just yesterday I found out I cannot watch anything on 113w-135w without severe interference...

I just double checked and tuner B is disabled. I think the power had been boosted prior to my moving the 1.2m. I'm chalking it up to operator error. I at first thought maybe I was "seeing" to much of my fence but seems not. Yesterday I noticed that I had a bit of movement at the bottom of the...

FYI, signal strength on the PBS mux at 12140 on 99W used to be very weak, but went up by about 4dB a few weeks ago, and is now quite easy to receive, so that might explain the different result. As for the horizontal problem, well I have to mention that I encountered a possibly similar problem...