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Finally!!!!. My first C-Band Digital signal!!!!. The Word Network on 91W and since it uses 1/2 FEC it locks with only 59-60 on my CS 6000. BTW apparently I have the LNBF rotated 90 degrees off since both Ku and C-Band polarisations are inverted , I will have to rotate it later when it stops raining. The LNBF has an arrow at the end that I lined up with the 0 mark of the holder (this is a motorised 90 cm Dish) but looks like it has to be 90 degrees off, who knows the logic behind that eh?. Yes there is light rain and even with the 90 cm Dish it works. MTA mux is borderline but works beautifully. No signs of Univision's TP right next to The Word yet , ahhhh!!!

The CS 8100 (the CS 6000 is in the bedroom slaved of this one) locks it at just 1% but if I select FEC 1/2 in the manual scan then it jumps to 25%. CS 6000 does not have the capability to set the FEC , it always uses Auto when scanning in. Not even in the livingroom where the CS 8100 is I can get any other C-Band signal off this 91W bird. No switches used.

The end output is for KU and the one on the "box" is for C-Band

Wow!! Heavy Rain with ThunderStorm now and even the QPSK tp's on Bell 82W went down but still the C-Band signal , The Word, on 91W is working perfectly. It just cut the audio very rarely during the heaviest part of the storm. I managed to tweak the lnb better and now signal Q is around 40% but still this is the one and only C-Band signal I can get with this 90 cm motorised dish. I guess FEC 1/2 helps a lot. After the rain I will try with another 90 cm Dish (non flimsy like this Fortec Star which also has minor bumps from a previous Storm) to lock to the Univision signal on the same bird.

BTW , during mid night , the signal started to pixeleate and became unwatchable at some point around 3 am, and Q went down from 25 yesterday to barely 4. No idea why since the weather was the same or slightly better. Maybe the sat drifted away at night time and gets closer to the center of box during the day although I do not think this is a daily process , it takes several days for the sat to drift away. Usually Center of Box days are that , days during the month (reported with specific hours) and not hours within a day, every day.

So far I am very happy with this Gospell C/Ku LNBF although to be fair this is my first C band LNBF so I have no reference to compare with others.

Well , maybe I was right , maybe it acctually drifted away during midnight. As per this public info from Intelsat , the sat operator, http://www.intelsat.com/isdocs/ephemeris/i_iar_c_91.00_G-17_20090806_000000.txt for Galaxy 17 @ 91W , the sat acctually drifts away every day during aproximately the same time. Center of box info is monthly usually because ir refers to a very very small polygon +/- 0.005 degrees width/height. August 17 & 18 around 800 hours (I guess GMT) are the perfect days to aim and secure the dish properly for this 91W bird. But anyways I am not going to wait that long nor my dishes are comercial high precision adjustments dishes anyways so I will try tomorrow weather permitting.