Hi all,
I have a strange problem. Here is my setup:
southwest Germany location
85 cm dish with 2 LNBs, one on Astro, one on Hotbird
Diseq switch on dish mount. HB is channel 1, Astra is 2
(crappy) motor drive with manual buttons - no control from receiver
Humax 5400 with reasonably recent ToH
Here is the problem. I installed two LNBs to avoid using the motor,
which is loud and unreliable. I can get plenty of stations from
Hotbird, but only a few from Astra. By looking at these few, I found
that the receiver was only finding Astra stations with the lowest
Symbol Rate (SR), specifically 22000 5/6. I could not even manually get
signal from known transponders with higher SR (i.e. 27500 3/4).
I moved the dish over to point the other LNB at Astra, and the
receiver had no problems finding high SR stations. For what it's
worth, I have also sometimes noticed that it takes some time for
signal to come through when I switch between stations on different
satellites, and sometimes I need to pick a third station to "force"
the switch.
In principle, I can do more tests, like switching LNBs, cables, etc.
but it involves climbing up on the roof - zero fun.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance...
I have a strange problem. Here is my setup:
southwest Germany location
85 cm dish with 2 LNBs, one on Astro, one on Hotbird
Diseq switch on dish mount. HB is channel 1, Astra is 2
(crappy) motor drive with manual buttons - no control from receiver
Humax 5400 with reasonably recent ToH
Here is the problem. I installed two LNBs to avoid using the motor,
which is loud and unreliable. I can get plenty of stations from
Hotbird, but only a few from Astra. By looking at these few, I found
that the receiver was only finding Astra stations with the lowest
Symbol Rate (SR), specifically 22000 5/6. I could not even manually get
signal from known transponders with higher SR (i.e. 27500 3/4).
I moved the dish over to point the other LNB at Astra, and the
receiver had no problems finding high SR stations. For what it's
worth, I have also sometimes noticed that it takes some time for
signal to come through when I switch between stations on different
satellites, and sometimes I need to pick a third station to "force"
the switch.
In principle, I can do more tests, like switching LNBs, cables, etc.
but it involves climbing up on the roof - zero fun.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance...