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Thanks to Valdivar and others that have responded so far. I have my own
sidecar which works just fine on all channels, however, this second
sidecar with which I am having trouble is for some relatives of ours.
As with my own sidecar, I have only used the Sat In and Sat Out
connections between the C-band receiver and the sidecar, using the
C-band receiver to move between satellites.
Here is what I have been able to observe so far:
When I go on C4, for channels 100, 102, 107, 108, 109, I get 2 green
lights and the authorisation status says NS (since I am not subscribed)
which seems ok. The dish polarity can be either Horiz or Vert. But when
I go to channel 400 and above, the light goes red and there is no
picture. The authorisation statuses are NS for channel 400, S for
channels 601, 602, 603 and NS for channels 860, 861, 867. The screen
typically says it’s looking for the channel. When I toggle back to
Analog the lights go green and toggling again to Digital makes the one
light go red. When toggling back and forth, I seem to get a picture for
a split second before the light goes red and the screen goes black. It’s
as if I don’t have a strong enough signal. My receiver is a Uniden
SQ560. When I spoke to the fellow who originally installed my C-band
system, he indicated that my system has electronic skew control that is
adjusted automatically.
On the upper problem channels, it looks as if the polarity must be Horiz
for odd C-band receiver channels and Vert for even C-band receiver channels.
On G0, I get 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 110, 111, 112, 117 and all the
music channels in the 800’s.
On G1, I can get channel 602 but not 100 or 102.
On C3, I get channels 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 110,110, 112, 117, 806,
807 ok, but I can’t get 601 or 616.
I have similar problems on satellites W1, W4 and T7 where some channels
work and others don’t.
Has anyone seen or heard of such problems? I checked with Motorola and
they said I had the latest software. All they would say was that I
needed to adjust the skew, but playing with the skew for my c-band
receiver doesn’t seem to have any effect at all.
Valdivar mentioned that some sidecars had a bug regarding the polarity –
is there a fix?
I would greatly appreciate any ideas or suggestions at this point since
I don’t know what else to do.
Thanks.
j-m
Thanks to Valdivar and others that have responded so far. I have my own
sidecar which works just fine on all channels, however, this second
sidecar with which I am having trouble is for some relatives of ours.
As with my own sidecar, I have only used the Sat In and Sat Out
connections between the C-band receiver and the sidecar, using the
C-band receiver to move between satellites.
Here is what I have been able to observe so far:
When I go on C4, for channels 100, 102, 107, 108, 109, I get 2 green
lights and the authorisation status says NS (since I am not subscribed)
which seems ok. The dish polarity can be either Horiz or Vert. But when
I go to channel 400 and above, the light goes red and there is no
picture. The authorisation statuses are NS for channel 400, S for
channels 601, 602, 603 and NS for channels 860, 861, 867. The screen
typically says it’s looking for the channel. When I toggle back to
Analog the lights go green and toggling again to Digital makes the one
light go red. When toggling back and forth, I seem to get a picture for
a split second before the light goes red and the screen goes black. It’s
as if I don’t have a strong enough signal. My receiver is a Uniden
SQ560. When I spoke to the fellow who originally installed my C-band
system, he indicated that my system has electronic skew control that is
adjusted automatically.
On the upper problem channels, it looks as if the polarity must be Horiz
for odd C-band receiver channels and Vert for even C-band receiver channels.
On G0, I get 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 110, 111, 112, 117 and all the
music channels in the 800’s.
On G1, I can get channel 602 but not 100 or 102.
On C3, I get channels 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 110,110, 112, 117, 806,
807 ok, but I can’t get 601 or 616.
I have similar problems on satellites W1, W4 and T7 where some channels
work and others don’t.
Has anyone seen or heard of such problems? I checked with Motorola and
they said I had the latest software. All they would say was that I
needed to adjust the skew, but playing with the skew for my c-band
receiver doesn’t seem to have any effect at all.
Valdivar mentioned that some sidecars had a bug regarding the polarity –
is there a fix?
I would greatly appreciate any ideas or suggestions at this point since
I don’t know what else to do.
Thanks.
j-m
/www.grisoft.com).
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