AMC6 OK today?

[Jim S.]

I haven't noticed any issues with AMC6, however the following post on Satforums might be related to issues above.

http://forums.satforums.com/SatForumMaster/index.php?msg=15862.1

Could you summarize that for me? The forum required registration, and when I did register, I couldn't navigate the site for some reason. The link takes me to the login page even though I tell it to remember that I'm logged in, and I tried looking at the forums myself but every forum link takes me to the same forum. I have no idea what's going on.

 

[Blindowl1234]

Signal back to normal for me this afternoon and evening....Blind

 

[Jim S.]

After being utterly dead for the past week for me, the goofy thing came back tonight in the middle of a snowstorm. I swear I didn't touch anything. Of course, being an 18" dish, it didn't survive the snowstorm for very long. But at least I know for certain it's not my LNB or cables.

 

[MrMars]

Could you summarize that for me? The forum required registration, and when I did register, I couldn't navigate the site for some reason. The link takes me to the login page even though I tell it to remember that I'm logged in, and I tried looking at the forums myself but every forum link takes me to the same forum. I have no idea what's going on.

It said AMC6 is having solar panel issues and NASA is moving to AMC3 Cband Transponder 15 on 1/16/2010

 

[mikelib]

After being utterly dead for the past week for me, the goofy thing came back tonight in the middle of a snowstorm. I swear I didn't touch anything. Of course, being an 18" dish, it didn't survive the snowstorm for very long. But at least I know for certain it's not my LNB or cables.

Jim,
I do not have a permanent dish set up, I use a motorized 90 cm on a tripod that I carry in and out of the garage and I have a 500 dish that also carry in and out of the garage. 72W is one of my favorite satellites and one of the first one I tune in when I am working around the garage. I usually use the 500 dish, and today the signal on the NBC mux was just at the threshold of my receiver. I did a blind scan and was able to receive 4 feeds with decent SQ. I don’t know what happen to the MSNBC mux all summer long I was getting good SQ at least 10 to 15% above threshold. I have the 500 dish mounted on a lazy susan and I was able to tune 72, 74 and 79 without changing skew or elevation. Now it seems that I have increase the elevation a little through out the day to keep the mux locked in at the receivers’ threshold. If I have time and the weather holds up I am going to change the LNB and realign the 500 dish to see if I can improve the signal quality of the MSNBC mux.

 

[freewave]

Dose anyone know why the audio is missing on channel one of the nbc mux on amc6? It seems to me I was getting audio on all channels just a few days ago.

Thanks freewave

 

[Mr Tony]

known issue...been like that for a few days

dont know why but usually it gets fixed soon

 

[freewave]

Thanks ice thought I might be the only one with that problem.

regards

 

[turbosat]

Nothing on AMC6 NBC mux working here

Now I can believe that satellite is getting weaker, for the first time nothing will lock on my 1m dish. OOPS IM A LIAR-it just popped in and locked.
Raining steady here but until this morning I hadn't seen a time when my 1m wouldn't lock something on that bird. Maybe they'll move everything over to 74!

 

[bobsav2001]

NBC SAT MUX CH3

The Weather Channel is on AMC 6.
Is this new ????

 

[Larobpra]

Nothing new. It comes and goes at various channels on the mux, usually when there's heavy weather like the east coast is getting today.

 

[chapelrun]

Question about NBC MUX CH 1

I have all 4 channels on 72W - AMC 6 but lost sound on MUX Channel 1.

Used to have sound on this channel but lost it maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago.

All other channels have sound when they have a picture.

Anyone else have this problem?

 

[Larobpra]

Others have commented on it. It's not just your setup.

 

[Mr Tony]

the uplink for that mux might be in NY or DC and they are getting pounded with snow

noticed signal low today

 

[GrumpyGuy]

The mux transponder is very low for me today, hardly even there. Last night it was fine.

Other known active transponders on AMC6 seem to be unaffected.

 

[Jim S.]

Maybe the uplink site is snowed in. I haven't been able to get the mux for quite a while now on my undersized dish, but today GBN is also gone. I still seem to be getting an average number of feeds from the usual suspects though.

 

[Mr Tony]

signal is back to normal now

 

[Jim S.]

Has the power level on AMC6 Ku dropped across the board tonight for anyone else? I haven't had the mux for a while on my 18" dish (I really gotta get a bigger 2nd dish, or motorize the 30"), but yesterday and today GBN kept disappearing too. Lots of feeds were still up though. But now tonight I have nothing, no fixed channels, no feeds. I'm only getting a signal strength reading on two frequencies, 11742 and 12195. Both of them show a high quality reading on my Coolsat but no channels will scan in. I tried TSReader on my Twinhan card and the first one shows 3Mbps of null packets and the second one won't lock. I went out and shoved the dish over to 74W and I got ONN and three feeds, so the LNB is fine. Then I put it back to 72W and I still only get the above two signals. I DON'T think they're spurious signals coming from the LNB, the switch, or the receiver, or else they wouldn't show a quality reading, right?

 

[Jim S.]

GBN just came back up, pounding in at 91S/78Q. Nothing else yet though.

 

[turbosat]

11890 ----60/92
12053V --73/99 color bars on ch1 &4 nothing on other 2
12144V --90/99 GBN

weather is messing with you Jim

edit: those were on the .90Meter dish just now 11pm C