Tandberg Service

[toddha]

Greetings all,
I just used my sm-2200 Trimax meter to better align my Glorystar dish. The professional installer that was sent out previously did a lousy job. In fact the LNB skewer was set at -20.0 degrees, when the specs say it should be set to -10.76 degrees in St Louis, MO.

Now my system is doing alot better, signal qualities are alot higher.
I did a POWER SCAN on the Fortec Mercury II receiver. And it found a new
transponder: 11945 on AMC-4

Satellite: AMC-4
Transponder: 11945
Polarization: Horizontal
Symbol Rate: 6672
Video PID: 308
Audio PID: 256 and 257
PCR PID: 8190
SID: 1

Hearing audio of a GOLF match. And heard references to scotland.
No video, unless its PAL, SECAM. my Mercury II only gets NTSC.
I guess I could hook up the sm-2200 meter. It claims to receive
any video: NTSC, PAL & SECAM.

Obviously not glorystar programming, but was surprised to see this
one. Perhaps a WILD FEED. I've never received a
WILD FEED before. It shows on the channel name: Tandberg
Service. Also shows: Tandberg under the NETWORK on my
DVR-1100c receiver.

Now that my glorystar dish is pointed """more""" correctly, maybe
there is even more I was missing. I now get FOX 64 on 11708 - AMC-4 and
PIT-AZCAR on 11779 - G-25. I never got these two before. This
is my first time gettings them both.

Here are some of my new signal quality readings:

Mercury II DVR-1100c
FOX 64 32-40% 51-52% (never received before)
PIT 31-37% 51% (never received before)
Tandberg 45-51% 67-69% (never received before)
Hope Ch 71-76% 88-90% (just started a few days ago)
3ABN 83-88% 98-99%

I did not spend too much time up on the roof, too hot for me.
So not much fine tuning done. That Hope Church Channel is on
11916/H/3100 with the following specs:

Video PID: 3160
Audio PID: 3120
PCR PID: 3160
SID: 1

showing as PowerVU encryption, but I am getting audio-video.
The NETWORK for 11916 shows as: EUROPE on my DVR-1100c.
Previously on 3ABN, I was only getting readings in the 50-60%
range. So my dish was previosuly WAY-OFF on alignment. I'm
shocked I was able to get anything at all with the SKEWER set
to -20.0 degrees rather than the -10.76 it should been fixed at.
Just goes to show ya ; you want something done right, do it
yourself.

I'll get up there again ; very early in the morning, before the sun
rises over the tree level on the east, and fine tune the dish alittle.
Since the DISH is now pointed correctly, should not be too
much more trouble.

 

[toddha]

signal quality readings now...

Greetings all,
Sorry, the last message did not read well.
So here it is again:

Mercury II DVR-1100c
FOX 64 32-40% 51-52% (never received before)
PIT 31-37% 51% (never received before)
Tandberg 45-51% 67-69% (never received before)
Hope Ch 71-76% 88-90% (just started a few days ago)
3ABN 83-88% 98-99%

should be:

- FOX-64 is 32-40% on Mercury II ; 51-52% on DVR-1100c
- PIT is 31-37% on Mercury II ; 51% on DVR-1100c
- Tandberg is 45-51% on Mercury II ; 67-69% on DVR-1100c
- Hope Ch is 71-76% on Mercury II ; 88-90% on DVR-1100c
- 3ABN is 83-88% on Mercury II ; 98-99% on DVR-1100c

Sorry abt that. The message editer squashed all of the
seperated text together.

 

[Glorystar1]

The two satellites are at different elevations so it is extremely important to have the dual clamp set to the correct angle so the LNBFs are in the proper position to catch the reflected signals. In St. Louis, the elevation angle is less than one degree between the two birds.

In another thread last week on the SatelliteGuys site, another equipment provider suggested that a bracket skew setting was not necessary. As you probably have noted as you made adjustments, even a small change of the dual clamp skew angle resulted in a tremendous difference in the signal quality. A zero setting would have provided a similar result as it would have been off by 10 degrees in the opposite skew direction.

Remember that you can peak the Signal Quality reading even more by adjusting the individual LNBFs in or out to match the dish FD and rotating each slightly to optimize the skew difference for each satellite.

Check out the New Glorystar Channel: University Network thread for yet another Christian channel available on Galaxy 25!