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Have been having trouble with some TPs, various satellites lately. Finally had the time to play around with the system, checking connections, switches, power supplies, etc. All seems good. Dish pole still vertical to less than 1/10 of a degree so that's good. Brought out the step ladder to check the LNBF, played around with skew, focal distance, angle to the dish, etc, no real improvement... if not made it worse. Just by chance I decided to turn the LNBF upside-down from where it was set and presto! Signals back where they should be. Really odd...
Nothing was found in the LNBF throat other than a bit of dust inside the cover which I cleaned off before moving the LNBF assembly. The heat sink now faces about 10 o'clock instead of 4 before.
Was using 4100 H on 97W to check, was having trouble with this TPp as well as one on 101W. They are both coming in fine now better than 13dB s/n (was 11-12 before).
Funny how things work sometimes...
Nothing was found in the LNBF throat other than a bit of dust inside the cover which I cleaned off before moving the LNBF assembly. The heat sink now faces about 10 o'clock instead of 4 before.
Was using 4100 H on 97W to check, was having trouble with this TPp as well as one on 101W. They are both coming in fine now better than 13dB s/n (was 11-12 before).
Funny how things work sometimes...
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Hi Brian,
Agreed, motorized systems are somewhat compromised. Tuning for one polarity and transponder frequency will affect others. So far though I have not seen any problematic signal drops, and many are higher than before, so as KE4EST suggests the dish might be just a bit warped causing a better focus from one side or another, this is an old fiberglass dish and passes the string test, but may have some surface abnormalities from being in use for 20+ years in the elements.
If it was worse I would consider switching out the fiberglass dish with the solid aluminum Andrews dish I have not set up yet, but this minor tinkering seems to have the original 10-footer working well once again.
Think I have mentioned before regarding setting focal depth, polarity, and scaler position. This can be an extremely delicate operation when trying to maximize several TPs over the whole C-band spectrum; lots of measuring and re-adjusting and re-measuring to optimize the weakest signals without over-compromising stronger ones. It takes time and patience to get it all working...sometimes at least. It's good time spent though, the results are quite rewarding!
I may have mis-labeled this thread... suggesting a "problem" with the C2PLL LNBF, where the issue was really with the whole setup as a receiving antenna system, and how the parts work together as a unit. I certainly don't mean to pick on the LNBF. I actually think it works better than the Chaparral feedhorn/LNB corotor I was using previously... that is; more consistent signals over the band than I could achieve with the corotor. Expensive PLL LNBs might have worked too, but this is so much simpler and cheaper!
Agreed, motorized systems are somewhat compromised. Tuning for one polarity and transponder frequency will affect others. So far though I have not seen any problematic signal drops, and many are higher than before, so as KE4EST suggests the dish might be just a bit warped causing a better focus from one side or another, this is an old fiberglass dish and passes the string test, but may have some surface abnormalities from being in use for 20+ years in the elements.
If it was worse I would consider switching out the fiberglass dish with the solid aluminum Andrews dish I have not set up yet, but this minor tinkering seems to have the original 10-footer working well once again.
Think I have mentioned before regarding setting focal depth, polarity, and scaler position. This can be an extremely delicate operation when trying to maximize several TPs over the whole C-band spectrum; lots of measuring and re-adjusting and re-measuring to optimize the weakest signals without over-compromising stronger ones. It takes time and patience to get it all working...sometimes at least. It's good time spent though, the results are quite rewarding!
I may have mis-labeled this thread... suggesting a "problem" with the C2PLL LNBF, where the issue was really with the whole setup as a receiving antenna system, and how the parts work together as a unit. I certainly don't mean to pick on the LNBF. I actually think it works better than the Chaparral feedhorn/LNB corotor I was using previously... that is; more consistent signals over the band than I could achieve with the corotor. Expensive PLL LNBs might have worked too, but this is so much simpler and cheaper!
I didn't take it wrong. No worries!
Understood what you found and why your solution improved the reception. Thought that I would turn your finding into a learning moment for others.
Understood what you found and why your solution improved the reception. Thought that I would turn your finding into a learning moment for others.
I've noticed that a 71/2 foot dish is marginal on SES1. For MeTV HD, I have never got a signal level above 50/49, which stays locked with no breakup unless there's thick cloud cover or hard rain. I've rolled one of my 10 footers to SES1 and had similar signal levels. Using the same 71/2 foot Unimesh dish, I can park it on Galaxy 19 and have a 90/85 signal level on all the channels. I have channels on Galaxy 16 that really shouldn't be locking with a signal level of 55/45.
THIS, COZI and a couple other channels are as low as 50/45 and they stay locked even in bad weather. All the other channels on SES1 and Galaxy 16 are in the 85/75 range, and some of them are the same polarity as the weaker channels. I've even seen channels like H&I be at a 55/50 level for several hours, and go to 85/75 later in the day. All the other channels in the MUX are much higher.
Even the other H&I feed is much higher than the other one. I believe a lot of it has to do with power levels at the provider, and the age of the satellite and atmospheric conditions. I've seem some weird things happen, especially with the equinox changing. I've even seen channels with a 90/85 signal level break up for no apparent reason. With levels like that, you'd think there would be no break up, but it happens.
I'm about to embark on a new adventure. Just ordered a Linkbox 9000i. We'll see how that goes.
Can't rule out terrestrial interference being an issue too. I just found out a tower was installed a few months ago due south of me maybe 3 miles away and they are using wimax to distribute broadband to their customers. Talking to a buddy today at one of the government departments that organizes RF spectrum and they have had complaints from one of the other local service providers, as well as from the municipal airport nearby. Looks like the tower is almost in line with the runway??? Unreal!!
Might have to rent out my cutting torch...
Might have to rent out my cutting torch...
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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This thread is a place to discuss the 4K events that appear on channel 540. We are getting, at this point, one college football game a week. Let's hope there is more coming.
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Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
As I recall you have the Flex package. Do you sub to multisport? -02 is FS1 and -03 is ESPN. -01 is Fox so you would get that if you sub to locals.Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
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On Tuesday, I recorded the first episodes of the new season's NCIS shows on CBS (Dish provided, not OTA). The new New York series and Origins will both do Auto Skip, but the original, now season 24 does not. What's stranger, when I do a search for NCIS, Origins and New York show the current recording and the next episode it will record, but the original show only shows the current recording and some other channel showing the very first episode of season one. It makes no sense. When I set up the timers, I was able to use search for Origins and New York, but for the original, I had to scroll ahead in the guide until last Tuesday when the show was airing. Then set the timer from there. You can see its timer type is DVR where the other two are Seek. What am I missing?
Thanks!
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I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.
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Hard getting used to the new younger Gibbs, Mark Harmons son had the right look but I understand he didn't want the role.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
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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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Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?
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Starting a thread klang !
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
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One episode into season 4 that dropped today...
