Originally Posted by Topper  Certainly seems a puzzler, I can see you are reasonably experienced in the hobby so I suspect we can rule out the obvious like a strand of braiding shorting things out, just a thought though is the central core long enough as it may be just a bit short for the SS.
I assume you are checking a frequency etc that does exist on 28.2 East |
Central core is long enough, thats one of the 1st things I checked. Im also trying it on frequencies I know exist & have active channels on them, also tried tuning to the frequencies that came up as having the strongest signal strength on my Technomate 5200D Reciever.
Something I forgot to mention in my 1st post was that back when I was running Windows XP I did hook the SS2 directly to my
Sky Minidish a few times & was able to recieve a signal via the same cables Etc... Im trying to use now. I also made up a 2nd cable tonight & connected that straght to the
Sky LNB & again no signal, hooked the same cable into my 80cm dish & it once again worked fine.
Little info on the Dish/LNB, I've got a 60cm Minidish with a
Sky Quad LNB with 4 outputs, 2 are been used by 2
Sky Reciever's, one of those has been plugged directly into my SS2 & having used that cable on my Pace
Sky reciever & my Technomate 5200D I know the cable's good & As I say above I have plugged the same cable into my SS2 before & got a signal under Windows XP.
The LNB I have looks similar to this one, I think its a Cambridge AE140 Quad LNB:
_http://www.selkirkshire.demon.co.uk/analoguesat/images/lnb.jpg
The thing thats really puzzling me is that I know all the hardware to be good, the SS2, cables, Dish & LNB are all fine so Id usually start looking at software problems, however since I can recieve a signal & pick up all the channels when I plug the SS2 into my other Dish I don't necisarily think it is a software problem, if it was surely nothing would work.
One final thing, something I did notice is that when Im hooking the SS2 upto the
Sky Dish I don't get a shock if I touch the metal F Connector of the cable, when I hook it upto my other indoor dish & touch the F Connector I do get a small shock. Could it be a possibility that for some reason there isn't any power going to/from the
Sky Minidish LNB? Howver thinking about it if that were the case why would it work with the other dish.
Anyway, if this can't be solved can anyone suggest another cheapish DVB-S (Or S2) PCI or USB card that is perhaps more compatible with Vista? I know this may not be the issue here but still could be worth buying a newer card thats more compatible with the OS Im running.