Is G18 goofy or is it me?

[Mr Tony]

Is G18 123W having issues?

When I put the dish back up a couple months ago *roof got replaced) the signals werent the best across the board...so a slight elevation on the dish fixed all of that

I get good numbers across the board but G18 is a real dud. Only thing I seem to get is the VA transponder (11732)...all the rest are minimal or not there

125W is real good. Montana at max, PBS HD around 70, the other PBS mux at 77 and on 121 they all read good too

Is it the satellite or are those 2 sats so strong that even if I am off a hair they still read good signal?

 

[Larobpra]

The 3CTV channels have been gone for 3-4 weeks now. UWTV seems real weak. Getting the VA mux OK. The 2 religious channels are watchable here but almost borderline SQ. So it might be something with the sat.

edit: Just noticed this was post # 1000!

 

[photoman76]

I get the following on my Prof 7500 and 90 cm Fortec:

VA 60 Q
UWTV 44 Q
Daystar 100 Q
KBS World 100 Q
Peace TV 100 Q
FSTV DVB-S2 44 Q
IP Data Mux 11880 V 30000 100 Q

Seems pretty normal to me.

 

[carlospr43]

hey photo
can you post the Tp info for FSTV DVBs2?? I don't have it
Thanks

 

[Mr Tony]

interesting that photman shows good signal yet he is on the west coast if I remember correctly (closer to the sat longitude wise)

both myself and lar are further east and having issues

hmmm.....anybody in the midwest or east showing good signal?

 

[beavs2112]

hi iceberg i'll be happy to check after the 4pm football games are done.

 

[stanleyjohn]

g18 seems to be working well for me.Checkout feed area of this forum for something interesting on g18

 

[crossbow]

Im near Ottawa Canada 45N 75W and getting it fine 11730, 11830, 11965, 12077, 12113, 12134 on a 2104D DVB, 37 inch D/W dish. Not really much there to watch though.

 

[Mr Tony]

sounds like I have some fine tuning to do tomorrow

 

[beavs2112]

Peace TV 80% Q UWTV 80 %Q Daystar 66%Q 12180 63%Q

congrats La on your 5000th

 

[carlospr43]

I picked UWTV back with good quality. This sat is going up and down, by the way good College football UW right now

 

[turbosat]

Getting good signals here on my .90 primestar.....87=90 strength/99 quality on the Icon on all the previously listed channels. Maybe varying power levels earlier....?

 

[Mr Tony]

well even the old FTA vet can have amnesia...checked it that night, saw the issues and posted right away

checked last night and everything is back to normal...all signals show up

whoops

 

[turbosat]

Must be that atmosphere! Been getting some strange reception on my police scanner the last 3 days or so. Im sure it messes with satellite signals somewhat also.

 

[Larobpra]

All coming in good here now too except I still get nothing on the 3CTV TP. Is anyone getting that one?

 

[rv1pop]

Iceberg,
Is it possible that the signal FROM Seattle was washed out in the rain at the uplink? I do not know where the uplink is, but my little sis said they had up to an inch an hour of rain for 2 - 3 days --- in heavy showers, not continuous. Also some trees down in the Montlake Cut, which is near UW, might have been in way of uplink, or taken out power. The path to the shell house was supposedly blocked by trees.
POP

 

[Mr Tony]

pop
everything but that VA channel was out so it wasnt just one Tp

 

[rv1pop]

OK, Thanks for the additional insight. More on my plate to try to learn.... Next time I am in Seattle I will try to hook up with some of my old enrineering buddies and see if they know about, or know who to contact at UW and find out where the uplink, etc., is, and what they uplink. There was a microwave link between NWCN and UW at one time, but I do not know which way the link went. The last time I worked around any of that was about 1988 or so when TBN moved KTBW from University Place in Tacoma to Federal Way.

I thing I do know, the back up power at UW was at a center location, so if Seattle City Light went down on the supply feed the campus would all come up together from the back up. BUT, if there was a power feed issue on campus, there was a big chance it would take some time to bring it up; therefore my thought about trees (and power lines) down in the cut, near the shell house. (If you have never watched the racing shell (boats) races you may not know what I am talking about, and not place to explain on this thread.)

 

[John Popper]

that's a weakish satellite on my end. I have never been able to get the VA mux, UW is borderline most of the time, right now I'm only getting Daystar, Peace TV and the scrambled KBS