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Okay, trying to watch M*A*S*H* tonight was like typing the name of the show with the asterisks. Is there any chance my pixelization/freezing/out-of-sync/stop action reception of the G10R multi-channel transponders is due to the processor of my receiver getting too hot? Does the processor have to work harder on transponders with multiple channels? My receiver does not have a cooling fan.
I've ruled out the cable, connections, dish aiming, and weather. Last night and tonight I had problems up until about 10:35 p.m. central. Then the problem went away, for a while anyway. (The receiver is on all of the time). I never have any problem with receiving KTWO even though my signal quality is lower on that channel.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm about ready to put the receiver in the refrigerator to see if heat is the problem. Make your own jokes.
Okay, trying to watch M*A*S*H* tonight was like typing the name of the show with the asterisks. Is there any chance my pixelization/freezing/out-of-sync/stop action reception of the G10R multi-channel transponders is due to the processor of my receiver getting too hot? Does the processor have to work harder on transponders with multiple channels? My receiver does not have a cooling fan.
I've ruled out the cable, connections, dish aiming, and weather. Last night and tonight I had problems up until about 10:35 p.m. central. Then the problem went away, for a while anyway. (The receiver is on all of the time). I never have any problem with receiving KTWO even though my signal quality is lower on that channel.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm about ready to put the receiver in the refrigerator to see if heat is the problem. Make your own jokes.
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I don't know but it may be the unit. I have had my Coolsat on since 6:00 tongiht on G10 with NO issues
6:00-7:00 had WNGS on (11720)
7:00-9:00 flipping between WNGS and KFDF (12114)
9:00-11:00 had WMQF on (11800) for Smackdown
turned off at 11:00
I don't know but it may be the unit. I have had my Coolsat on since 6:00 tongiht on G10 with NO issues
6:00-7:00 had WNGS on (11720)
7:00-9:00 flipping between WNGS and KFDF (12114)
9:00-11:00 had WMQF on (11800) for Smackdown
turned off at 11:00
Possibly a polarity issue? Research is horizontal, nearly everything else on G-10R is vertical.Sassan said:
I finally resolved this problem this afternoon and tonight. I'm still not sure what was the cause, but at least I have my channels back.
I tried using an inline satellite amp. No improvement. (100 ft. cable run). Then I ran new RG-6 cable. Still no improvement. I took a TV and receiver out to the dish and tried to peak the signal. I was still getting a lot of pixelization and audio chirps. The 11800 transponder has had the most problems for me. I managed to bring up the quality reading by about 4%, but still had problems. Then I found if I nudged the dish a little to the west my quality would drop a little, but the picture became steady. I still think that interference was a factor.
The end result was (quality readings)
12104 went from 58 to 54
12114 went from 72 to 62
11720 went from 42 to 52
11800 went from 63 to 56
10235 went from 63 to 57
These readings were all taken during clear, cloudless days. I'm not sure why they didn't all go up or down consistently. Even though I have generally lower quality, I'm not having any problems with reception. I did try moving the dish back for the higher readings, but the pixelization, chirping freezing would start up again. Perhaps my primestar dish is warped just enough that I'm getting intereference from the DishNetwork satellites unless I aim slightly to the west. I'm guessing.
I tried using an inline satellite amp. No improvement. (100 ft. cable run). Then I ran new RG-6 cable. Still no improvement. I took a TV and receiver out to the dish and tried to peak the signal. I was still getting a lot of pixelization and audio chirps. The 11800 transponder has had the most problems for me. I managed to bring up the quality reading by about 4%, but still had problems. Then I found if I nudged the dish a little to the west my quality would drop a little, but the picture became steady. I still think that interference was a factor.
The end result was (quality readings)
12104 went from 58 to 54
12114 went from 72 to 62
11720 went from 42 to 52
11800 went from 63 to 56
10235 went from 63 to 57
These readings were all taken during clear, cloudless days. I'm not sure why they didn't all go up or down consistently. Even though I have generally lower quality, I'm not having any problems with reception. I did try moving the dish back for the higher readings, but the pixelization, chirping freezing would start up again. Perhaps my primestar dish is warped just enough that I'm getting intereference from the DishNetwork satellites unless I aim slightly to the west. I'm guessing.
Hmmmmm.... notice that the one transponder that improved in quality was 11720. That transponder is the one that has cross-pole issues with Echo's 121w satellite next door. What you probably did was eliminate some cross-pole error on 11720 at the expense of a slight quality loss on the other TPs. Good trade off though!
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