I have recently been tuning a number of satellite receivers using a local signal across the bench. I had great difficulty tuning the 437MHz channels, using an upconverter which moved the frequency up 900MHz. Several receivers were seeing a very strong signal but would not decode a picture and store a channel. To cut a long story short, the signal seemed to be too strong and adding some attenuation allowed it to decode the picture and store a channel. It seems that with signal and quality indication over about 85%, some receivers won't add a new channel. I've not come across this before, it has foxed me for a couple of weeks, and I mention it here in case anyone else has this trouble or can explain why?
73 Shaun.
Tuning satellite receivers
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Re: Tuning satellite receivers
Hi Shaun,
Will look into your comments, had some issues having to re-scan the Openbox V8S after in use for a while, on 1249 DVB-S2 1M/S 3/4 Fec.
But must also take into account the Datv-Express quality on various slow laptops this end, lot's of variables
Thanks for the info, it could save us all some time, and the "too much signal" could go un-noticed.
Peter
Will look into your comments, had some issues having to re-scan the Openbox V8S after in use for a while, on 1249 DVB-S2 1M/S 3/4 Fec.
But must also take into account the Datv-Express quality on various slow laptops this end, lot's of variables
Thanks for the info, it could save us all some time, and the "too much signal" could go un-noticed.
Peter