Rock solid signal even in rainy conditions right now with a circular LNB. S9 reading only wavering 74% to 75%.
By the way, for those hunting for ITC, there are 6 "green icons" on 61.5W. Have been there for days...just waiting to be discovered.
Anik F3 @ 118.8W
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By the way, for those hunting for ITC, there are 6 "green icons" on 61.5W. Have been there for days...just waiting to be discovered.
That is what I was afraid of after reviewing the requirement for receiving those channel. I said it once, and will say it again, I really need the microHD receiver to do all the things that I am misisng with those two semi-dinosaurs receivers of mine.
try manually entering 11898 v sr 20000
then scan.You get cnn and ch100 with the 6 mini pics.
Nope. When use linear LNB, no signal. When use circular, can't go that low in frequency.
Works fine here wit S10 and Azbox 95% SQ on 11898v 20000 on Circular LNB
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What kind of circular LNB are you using that goes down to 11898 MHz? Mine cuts off at 12200 MHz at low end. I am lucky to get the 3 nets at 12185 just below cutoff.
My lo is at 10750
No quality on that transponder.At 10700 I get quality,but it then shows scrambled on the Phoenix channels and no cnn.
So,I'm sitting at 10750 watching Fox coming in strong.
So---Do you have the pid info on this transponder.It's no doubt needed to get this "hidden" channel if it is available nation wide.
I'm also using a s10
No quality on that transponder.At 10700 I get quality,but it then shows scrambled on the Phoenix channels and no cnn.
So,I'm sitting at 10750 watching Fox coming in strong.
So---Do you have the pid info on this transponder.It's no doubt needed to get this "hidden" channel if it is available nation wide.
I'm also using a s10
DMS Model 922 DSS 10750 LO Dual Output LNB for 119/118.8
$19.89 free shipping from Hypermegasat.
Hypermegasat.com, Dish LNBs
None of our sponsors list it. It's up on E-bay sometimes for about the same price.
It will tune from the lower Ku 11.7 to the top of the DSS 12.7 in one pass, no 22k needed. Bolts directly on the arm of most Dish or DTV dishes. The neck will clamp in most 40 mm mounts. Will do all your circular Ku needs, toss your legacy Dish Net lnb in the junk box
$19.89 free shipping from Hypermegasat.
Hypermegasat.com, Dish LNBs
None of our sponsors list it. It's up on E-bay sometimes for about the same price.
It will tune from the lower Ku 11.7 to the top of the DSS 12.7 in one pass, no 22k needed. Bolts directly on the arm of most Dish or DTV dishes. The neck will clamp in most 40 mm mounts. Will do all your circular Ku needs, toss your legacy Dish Net lnb in the junk box
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Interesting things happened. But, as yet, no ITC. Head is swimming; need to sleep.
Persistence compensates for lack of genius. I did more testing in search of the elusive ITC signal on 11898.
The 11898 signal mixes with 11250 LO in LNB and produces an IF of 648 MHz. My Coolsat receiver LO setting of 10750 adds to IF of 648 MHz and should produce the received signal at 11398. But...a 12399 signal also coming into the LNB from another transponder produces an IF of 1149 MHz. This signal adds to receiver LO of 10750 producing 11899 and that is what actually gets scanned into the Coolsat instead. I checked 11398 but no signal there. I am receiving all the 12399 stations labeled 11898. Of course they are all scrambled.
I have my S9 input connected to the IF from the back of my Coolsat. I have another chance to get 11898. The 648 MHz IF enters my S9. If I set my S9 LO to 11250, this produces a signal on 11898. I scan this 11898 signal. The result is stations from the 12020 transponder. This is because the 12020 signal produces an IF of 770 MHz. The 11250 setting on the S9 LO results in the 12020 stations (770 + 11250 = 12020) being scanned in when I scan 11898.
I try again setting the S9 LO to 11200. Same result as for S9 LO of 11250. I try again setting S9 LO to 11050. No signal appears at 11898, but a signal appears at 11698. The scanned result is the same 12020 tp stations (770 + 11050 = 11820). I set the S9 LO to 10750, this produces a signal on 11898. I scan this 11898 signal. The result is stations from the 12399 transponder just like on the Coolsat, plus an extra 11 stations from somewhere (can't find their SIDs anywhere in documentation).
With these 12399 plus mystery 11 stations scanned in, I reset the S9 LO to 11250. The info screens for some of these indicate ITC channels. But no video since the receiver seems to know that some of these stations should be ITC, but the signals are not the correct signals.
I switched the roles of the Coolsat and S9 with the S9 controlling the LNB and Coolsat being slaved. Nothing significant found. The Coolsat nicely labels stations found with station name in text, so that's friendlier, but the S9 seems more liberal in seeing and scanning stations regardless which LO frequency is selected.
Bottom line: I can't trick these receivers; they are smarter than me. I guess I have to buy a wideband circular LNB as suggested by Pixl.
I just stick plastic in the lnb throat of a universal lnb and use that for 118w
The coolsat should get 11898v,watching on my coolsat 5k now.
The coolsat should get 11898v,watching on my coolsat 5k now.
I assume plastic in the throat affects linear operation on other satellites? I don't have spare signal to waste on linear. Coolsat 7000 will tune 11898 when using an LO of 10750 (10600 for universal LNB), but not when selecting 11200 or 11250 for a circular LNB.
1meter dish on linear I spun it around to 30w as a test.Strong tp's still get through strong but will scan 2x when doing a blindscan.Regular signal quality and a mirror @ reduced quality.On the coolsat 1 tp was still 87% quality but the mirror was 66%.Other tp's showed no signal at all.As a receiver test for 118w, plastic in the throat is good or if it's a fixed dish aimed at 118w.
I swapped the lnb from universal to old primestar standard linear and quality is solid,knock wood.
The weird thing is I have to set the tp as 12185v instead of 12185h to get a signal.
Same with cnn on 11898v to 11898h
12185 scanned in as H for me when I originally had a linear LNB installed. Maybe that's why I got such a poor signal with the linear LNB. I left the configuration that way after replacing linear LNB with circular.
Guys, do you know what Modulation Setting to use ie: DVB-S2 8PSK for PID entry of these 3 Channels (KNVX, KPNX, KSAV) on 12185 - H on 118.8W Anik F3? I found that this was critical to PID scanning in the CBC Channels on 107.3W Anik F1R. Any replies would be much appreciated.
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