Recent G10R Problems

[Mr Tony]

<div class="bbWrapper">MyNetwork will be a dumping ground for Fox shows (since Fox owns it)</div>

 

[techpuppy]

<div class="bbWrapper"><b>Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggghhhhhh!</b><br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> I&#039;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.<br /> <br /> Does anyone have any ideas? I&#039;m about ready to put the receiver in the refrigerator to see if heat is the problem. Make your own jokes.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></div>

 

[Mr Tony]

<div class="bbWrapper">techpuppy<br /> <br /> I don&#039;t know but it may be the unit. I have had my Coolsat on since 6:00 tongiht on G10 with NO issues<br /> <br /> 6:00-7:00 had WNGS on (11720)<br /> 7:00-9:00 flipping between WNGS and KFDF (12114)<br /> 9:00-11:00 had WMQF on (11800) for Smackdown<br /> <br /> turned off at 11:00</div>

 

[Tron]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="" data-quote="Sassan" data-source="" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> Sassan said: </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> I am getting almost nothing on G10 here. I have tried to rescan it several times, but all I get is the Research Channel. Weather is not a factor here either. I would assume its not alignment, because a) everything else is coming in fine on all other channels, and b) I am getting some of the channels on G10.<br /> <br /> Other ideas? </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Possibly a polarity issue? Research is horizontal, nearly everything else on G-10R is vertical.</div>

 

[Mr Tony]

<div class="bbWrapper">As Tron noted, Research is H (and very strong)<br /> Everything else is V polarity</div>

 

[techpuppy]

<div class="bbWrapper">I finally resolved this problem this afternoon and tonight. I&#039;m still not sure what was the cause, but at least I have my channels back.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> The end result was (quality readings)<br /> <br /> 12104 went from 58 to 54<br /> 12114 went from 72 to 62<br /> 11720 went from 42 to 52<br /> 11800 went from 63 to 56<br /> 10235 went from 63 to 57<br /> <br /> These readings were all taken during clear, cloudless days. I&#039;m not sure why they didn&#039;t all go up or down consistently. Even though I have generally lower quality, I&#039;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&#039;m getting intereference from the DishNetwork satellites unless I aim slightly to the west. I&#039;m guessing.</div>

 

[jh98]

<div class="bbWrapper">Equity occasionally has technical problems, too. Once during the past week, all their Univision eastern/central time channels were in &quot;freeze frame&quot; for some reason. The other channels were normal.</div>

 

[Tron]

<div class="bbWrapper">Hmmmmm.... notice that the one transponder that improved in quality was 11720. That transponder is the one that has cross-pole issues with Echo&#039;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!</div>