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I have observed the following several times in the past, when using my Fortec receivers (Lifetime, Ultra, Mercury), and posted about it in other forums, however I just observed it happening with my Diamond for the first time, and I figured out a way to bypass the "problem".
Well, what I've observed, is that with some receivers, when a satellite is set up to have a DiseqC port number, that if I am on a transponder that isn't strong enough to lock well, or a transponder that doesn't exist anymore, that the receivers seem to go into some un-documented search mode, whereby it will try different DiseqC port numbers trying to find the port that might have the transponder you've selected.
I know that this sounds absurd, but I first discovered this when I had 3 different dishes all tuned to the same PBS transponder, all connected to different ports of a DiseqC switch. I was trying to aim one of the dishes at the time, but was unable to get a good signal. So I decided to go outside and play with the alignment a bit. I connected a meter, and started playing with the aim of the dish a bit. After a bit of playing, I completely lost signal on the meter. Completely gone, like it wasn't getting any voltage. I went inside to see if somehow the receiver had gotten into some lockup mode or something. To my surprise, I had a solid lock on the channel I was trying to tune. Went outside.... no voltage. Confused, I disconnected the coax from the LNB. Went inside, still receiving the channel. Switched channels, and then back.... NOTHING..... then after a while...... BLINK... and the channel popped in.
I eventually verified that after not being able to lock the transponder with the parameters I had entered, the receiver was switching ports randomly on my DiseqC switch, which just happened to be on the same channel, and when it got a lock, it just stayed there. !?#$%#^@
I later found that if I used my Channel master meter that has a little indicator light that lights when it senses a 22KHz DiseqC signal, and if I lifted up on the dish enough to pull the dish off a transponder it was locked to, that as soon as it lost lock, that it would try sending out DiseqC signals, perhaps thinking that the switch had gotten a spurious signal and gone to another port. Stop lifting the dish, the DiseqC signal stopped. I think in this case, it was sending out the right DiseqC signal. But apparently the receivers would eventually try other port numbers if it wasn't able to find the signal on the right port. Really weird behavior. I eventually discovered that this was a way of telling if I was on the correct satellite while out at the dish with no TV. Ie if the little 22KHz light stopped blinking on the meter, I knew that I was on the right satellite, because when it stopped blinking I knew the receiver inside was LOCKED.
Anyway, as mentioned, yesterday I noticed my Diamond 9000 doing something similar. What I was doing, was trying to tune a transponder using a receiver that was slaved to my Diamond through the passthru. I didn't have any current channels saved on the Diamond on the sat in question on the polarity I was trying to tune, so I tuned the Diamond to a non-existant channel with the proper polarity selected. Went to the slaved receiver, and tuned in the transponder I was looking for. The problem, however, was that the transponder would lock, but with bunches of errors. I went back to the Diamond, and tried to adjust the dish position a bit. While I was adjusting the dish, my reception on the slaved receiver was rock solid.... no errors. As soon as I'd save and exit out of the adjust page, I'd start getting all sorts of errors on the slaved receiver.
Finally, it dawned on me that when I was in the setup page adjusting the dish position, etc, it wasn't trying to change the DiseqC settings, but as soon as I'd exit the dish position adjust page, it would start sending out DiseqC port signals, which were apparently messing up the reception on my slaved receiver. I don't know if the DiseqC signals were affecting the signal coming from the LNB, affecting the signals getting through the switch, or somehow getting into the slaved receiver, or perhaps the Diamond somehow shuts off the slaved port when it's sending diseq or something, but whatever the reason, I was losing reception on the slaved receiver every time the Diamond would send DiseqC signals.
Anyway, I found that the simple solution was to tune to the non-existant channel, then go in and turn off the DiseqC port selection to the OFF state, so that it wasn't selecting a port anymore. This may have worked only because I was on port 1, and off was right next to 1, so it just stayed on 1. If I had been on port 2, it might not have worked, because I would have had to go through 1 to get to OFF.
Anyway, if anyone ever tries using the passthru of a DVB receiver hooked up to a DiseqC, and you have trouble on the slaved receiver, you might check to see if the master receiver is on a transponder with a solid lock.
Well, what I've observed, is that with some receivers, when a satellite is set up to have a DiseqC port number, that if I am on a transponder that isn't strong enough to lock well, or a transponder that doesn't exist anymore, that the receivers seem to go into some un-documented search mode, whereby it will try different DiseqC port numbers trying to find the port that might have the transponder you've selected.
I know that this sounds absurd, but I first discovered this when I had 3 different dishes all tuned to the same PBS transponder, all connected to different ports of a DiseqC switch. I was trying to aim one of the dishes at the time, but was unable to get a good signal. So I decided to go outside and play with the alignment a bit. I connected a meter, and started playing with the aim of the dish a bit. After a bit of playing, I completely lost signal on the meter. Completely gone, like it wasn't getting any voltage. I went inside to see if somehow the receiver had gotten into some lockup mode or something. To my surprise, I had a solid lock on the channel I was trying to tune. Went outside.... no voltage. Confused, I disconnected the coax from the LNB. Went inside, still receiving the channel. Switched channels, and then back.... NOTHING..... then after a while...... BLINK... and the channel popped in.
I eventually verified that after not being able to lock the transponder with the parameters I had entered, the receiver was switching ports randomly on my DiseqC switch, which just happened to be on the same channel, and when it got a lock, it just stayed there. !?#$%#^@
I later found that if I used my Channel master meter that has a little indicator light that lights when it senses a 22KHz DiseqC signal, and if I lifted up on the dish enough to pull the dish off a transponder it was locked to, that as soon as it lost lock, that it would try sending out DiseqC signals, perhaps thinking that the switch had gotten a spurious signal and gone to another port. Stop lifting the dish, the DiseqC signal stopped. I think in this case, it was sending out the right DiseqC signal. But apparently the receivers would eventually try other port numbers if it wasn't able to find the signal on the right port. Really weird behavior. I eventually discovered that this was a way of telling if I was on the correct satellite while out at the dish with no TV. Ie if the little 22KHz light stopped blinking on the meter, I knew that I was on the right satellite, because when it stopped blinking I knew the receiver inside was LOCKED.
Anyway, as mentioned, yesterday I noticed my Diamond 9000 doing something similar. What I was doing, was trying to tune a transponder using a receiver that was slaved to my Diamond through the passthru. I didn't have any current channels saved on the Diamond on the sat in question on the polarity I was trying to tune, so I tuned the Diamond to a non-existant channel with the proper polarity selected. Went to the slaved receiver, and tuned in the transponder I was looking for. The problem, however, was that the transponder would lock, but with bunches of errors. I went back to the Diamond, and tried to adjust the dish position a bit. While I was adjusting the dish, my reception on the slaved receiver was rock solid.... no errors. As soon as I'd save and exit out of the adjust page, I'd start getting all sorts of errors on the slaved receiver.
Finally, it dawned on me that when I was in the setup page adjusting the dish position, etc, it wasn't trying to change the DiseqC settings, but as soon as I'd exit the dish position adjust page, it would start sending out DiseqC port signals, which were apparently messing up the reception on my slaved receiver. I don't know if the DiseqC signals were affecting the signal coming from the LNB, affecting the signals getting through the switch, or somehow getting into the slaved receiver, or perhaps the Diamond somehow shuts off the slaved port when it's sending diseq or something, but whatever the reason, I was losing reception on the slaved receiver every time the Diamond would send DiseqC signals.
Anyway, I found that the simple solution was to tune to the non-existant channel, then go in and turn off the DiseqC port selection to the OFF state, so that it wasn't selecting a port anymore. This may have worked only because I was on port 1, and off was right next to 1, so it just stayed on 1. If I had been on port 2, it might not have worked, because I would have had to go through 1 to get to OFF.
Anyway, if anyone ever tries using the passthru of a DVB receiver hooked up to a DiseqC, and you have trouble on the slaved receiver, you might check to see if the master receiver is on a transponder with a solid lock.
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Comcast is the first to report, with a massive 274,000 loss in video subscribers.
In the 3Q of 2016, Comcast had 21.42 million video subscribers and was the #1 provider, now at 10.39 million and is the #3 Provider, YTTV is #2 ( who also surpassed DirecTV-8 Million and Dish-under 5 Million), Charter/Spectrum is #1.
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In the 3Q of 2016, Comcast had 21.42 million video subscribers and was the #1 provider, now at 10.39 million and is the #3 Provider, YTTV is #2 ( who also surpassed DirecTV-8 Million and Dish-under 5 Million), Charter/Spectrum is #1.
Comcast Just Lost 274,000 TV Customers & 144,000 Internet Customers In Just Three Months | Cord Cutters News
Comcast Corporation reported its third-quarter 2026 results on October 22, showing continued erosion in its domestic residential broadband internet and video customer bases as competitive pressures intensified across the connectivity market. The company recorded a net loss of 144,000 domestic...
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Daisy Ridley to Star in New Take on 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' at Paramount+
I'm not usually a fan of remakes but the description provided in the article does intrigue me.
I'm not usually a fan of remakes but the description provided in the article does intrigue me.
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Don't know if any of you have watched this series yet, it would be interesting to see if you feel this review was accurate. It was very humorous to listen to however.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tsDO3y8I2c
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I'm surprised Walmart hasn't banned this guy from all of their stores. He has been on their CASE the past few months.
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f3zr37ekgKM?feature=share
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Didn't see a thread like this so I figured why not start one. This is about natural supplements. If you aren't into supplements, fine, but please let those of us who do want to discuss this discuss it.
The first one I wanted to mention has been a real life changer. I'm 62 and still do all of my own install work at my business....also do all the yard work at the house. A few years ago I started noticing that I was losing my range of movement, it was even getting hard to bend over and lace up my boots. Almost got stuck in an attic because I couldn't get turned around once the work was done. Didn't think much of it and figured with age comes stiffness that was only going to get worse as time went on.
It was then that I stumbled across a video which was discussing rotator cuff tears and why they were to prevalent these days. Turns out, the culprit is a simple deficiency in MANGANESE which is key in keeping your tendons flexible. Most anti-biotics strip your body of any manganese it might have had which is why certain anti-biotics, especially those in the Cipro family. I actually knew a man who had two tendons tear while on that stuff.
Went to Amazon and ordered some manganese. Now it took a while, it wasn't instant, but gradually I have regained all of my flexibility. I can bend over and touch my toes while standing with no pain and putting on my boots is no longer a chore.
Pretty cheap too. The bottle I ordered was a 200 ct for under $13. They said to take double the normal dose for the first month because most people are severely lacking, then go to one a day.
The first one I wanted to mention has been a real life changer. I'm 62 and still do all of my own install work at my business....also do all the yard work at the house. A few years ago I started noticing that I was losing my range of movement, it was even getting hard to bend over and lace up my boots. Almost got stuck in an attic because I couldn't get turned around once the work was done. Didn't think much of it and figured with age comes stiffness that was only going to get worse as time went on.
It was then that I stumbled across a video which was discussing rotator cuff tears and why they were to prevalent these days. Turns out, the culprit is a simple deficiency in MANGANESE which is key in keeping your tendons flexible. Most anti-biotics strip your body of any manganese it might have had which is why certain anti-biotics, especially those in the Cipro family. I actually knew a man who had two tendons tear while on that stuff.
Went to Amazon and ordered some manganese. Now it took a while, it wasn't instant, but gradually I have regained all of my flexibility. I can bend over and touch my toes while standing with no pain and putting on my boots is no longer a chore.
Pretty cheap too. The bottle I ordered was a 200 ct for under $13. They said to take double the normal dose for the first month because most people are severely lacking, then go to one a day.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
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IS Amiko MIRA 3 any good ???
Can you recommend the best to cover all bases. NO BEEPS on certain channels 101w (NEWSMAX ,NEWS NATION), a clock that keeps working STEADY for timed recording ,solid unit with good lifespan. My Amiko died AND my Linkbox has NO Favorites Button and BEEPS on many channels. Picking up 105 west with a NEW SHED IN THE Way with 6 foot Cband ..95 percent quality ...unbelievable.
Can you recommend the best to cover all bases. NO BEEPS on certain channels 101w (NEWSMAX ,NEWS NATION), a clock that keeps working STEADY for timed recording ,solid unit with good lifespan. My Amiko died AND my Linkbox has NO Favorites Button and BEEPS on many channels. Picking up 105 west with a NEW SHED IN THE Way with 6 foot Cband ..95 percent quality ...unbelievable.
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Can't help but wonder if a worker overlooked checking the harness. I rarely ride a roller coaster anymore but when I do I check the harness myself pretty aggressively.
Can't imagine what the son is going through.
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Can't imagine what the son is going through.
Dad levitated and bled then fell to his death from coaster
Eyewitnesses have shared fresh details of the horrific accident that happened at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday afternoon.
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UPDATE: Six Flags is adding seatbelts to all 9 rollercoasters
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Six Flags adds important safety feature after teacher died
Hassan Kariem, 42, was killed at the theme park in Austell earlier this month, after he was thrown from his seat on the Goliath rollercoaster. Four others were injured.
Finally ....UPDATE: Six Flags is adding seatbelts to all 9 rollercoasters
Six Flags adds important safety feature after teacher died
Hassan Kariem, 42, was killed at the theme park in Austell earlier this month, after he was thrown from his seat on the Goliath rollercoaster. Four others were injured.
Season 2 order already in hand:
'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1
I've not been optimistic about this show based on what I've read so far. Seems to be aimed at a younger audience. Interesting though that Tatiana Maslany will have some sort of role.
'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1
I've not been optimistic about this show based on what I've read so far. Seems to be aimed at a younger audience. Interesting though that Tatiana Maslany will have some sort of role.
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I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.
Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home thoughI don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.
Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though
You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ...
