103W/SES3 Ku?? Is It Hot?

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Lone Gunman

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Reason I ask is because I've been scanning it in each night now for the last 4 days or so and tonight I'm getting duplicate channels/TPs?? Had to move the dish about 5 clicks west to get a lock too. Also got some new channels that I've never seen before so I'm thinking that 103Ku is broadcasting from both satellites right now?

Anyone else seeing this?
 

Lone Gunman

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Hummm, just did another scan and only got 6 TPs and 9 channels? Last night I got 13 TPs and 17 channels, but some of those were duplicates. Things that make you go "hummm"!
 

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I scanned last night and got some wild feeds. Scanned before I went to bed and back to normal.
 

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If you dont skew the LNB properly (to the goofy skew) you will get duplicates...mainly the vertical TP"s will show twice
If the LNB is skewed the -26 then you wont have that issue
 

Babadem

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If you dont skew the LNB properly (to the goofy skew) you will get duplicates...mainly the vertical TP"s will show twice
If the LNB is skewed the -26 then you wont have that issue
You took the words out of my typing fingers, Ice. That was my experience when I used my motorized dish to get 103.0°W. With my fixed 1.2M dish adjusted to the odd ball skew all channels come in fine.
 

Lone Gunman

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If you dont skew the LNB properly (to the goofy skew) you will get duplicates...mainly the vertical TP"s will show twice
If the LNB is skewed the -26 then you wont have that issue

Never skewed that one on that 10 footer before and it's odd that this is the first time I've ever gotten this from a scan? Oh well, hopefully they'll have SES3 in place soon and all this crap will be history.
 

Martyn

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I'm pulling in all the NBC channels at about 75 percent with no skew change on a 1-meter dish with the Satellite AV PLL LNB and MicroHD.

Is this perhaps a sweet spot at which the signal from a non-skewed LNB is enough for the receiver, but not quite enough to register on the alternate polarity?

On my old 32-inch dish, I could barely receive NBC West/Mountain and nothing from East/Central without skewing the LNB, and even then it was super weak.
 

Lone Gunman

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I can get those NBC channels with my 10ft Winegard and an Openbox S9 but can't get them with the 7.5ft SAMI unless I skew the LNBF. Both my systems have DMX 741 LNBFs on them.
 
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