I have EA. Today, I started losing signal on some of my locals. I went to a personal spreadsheet that I used to use to keep track of signal stengths. I haven't looked at in a year. Given the signal loss today, I started comparing signal strengths. There are transponders that formerly had readings, but today they do not. I assume there have just been changes to 61.5 since I last looked, and frankly I haven't kept up with those sorts of things on the forum.
So, to narrow down my search for which transponder my locals were on, I first first went to one of the locals that's giving me trouble this morning and went to menu-->6-->1-->1. Previously, this would bring up the sat and transponder where that channel was located. I noticed it took a good 30 seconds or more to find the satellite, but when it did, it said I had a strength of 61 (decent for EA). This is being called a spotbeam 24 on 61.5.
There's some cloud cover, but since I've gotten EA a few years ago, it's taken a lot more than that to lose signal.
Why can't I find my locals under EA on "The List"? I'm in the Dallas, TX DMA and one of the channels of concern is KXAS (6385 mapped to 05).
So, to narrow down my search for which transponder my locals were on, I first first went to one of the locals that's giving me trouble this morning and went to menu-->6-->1-->1. Previously, this would bring up the sat and transponder where that channel was located. I noticed it took a good 30 seconds or more to find the satellite, but when it did, it said I had a strength of 61 (decent for EA). This is being called a spotbeam 24 on 61.5.
There's some cloud cover, but since I've gotten EA a few years ago, it's taken a lot more than that to lose signal.
Why can't I find my locals under EA on "The List"? I'm in the Dallas, TX DMA and one of the channels of concern is KXAS (6385 mapped to 05).