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robinhood
January 17th, 2001, 08:13 PM
Finally, got my coveted hughes gold plus system...

been following all the info and the scramble of channels that are there and everywhere...100's, 200's, 300's, 400's, 500's, 600's, 700's, 800's...no 900's...they are scattered in the 400, 2900's 01-99

this is the set-up, Single dish with dual(single)LNB for multi room set-up...no a/b switches...straight in to the IRD...set-up menu...oval dish...three lnb's

get reading from all three birds...101(in the 90's)--- 110---(in the 90's)---119(in the high 80's)

Now my question is...Is it possible that there is signal overrun with a setup like this? Thus, leading to the scramble effect on the channels?

The channels are there but they are not in their proper local on the menu or coming through the IRD...

Could this be why we have noggin on the Jchannel...LA WB on three channels...and so on...

If this is the case then to relieve the scrammble and receive the proper channels with the guide would be to set a seperate dish coming to the a/b switch, right?

Would you still get channel over-run(scramble)?

Or do we simply need more tier data on our aktivator/activation scripts? To allow todo stationonis?

smack
January 17th, 2001, 11:09 PM
You are still getting signal from only one satellite. By telling it you are rigged for two or three satellites, you expand the channel guide. The channels are in the wrong place because they would normally be replaced by a channel from another satellite.

FWIW

Scott

robinhood
January 18th, 2001, 08:42 AM
Thanks smack, I was thinking it was something along those lines...

All thing considered to eliminate these problems would be to set the second dish to proper local...

another question, how far apart should these dishes be apart or is there a guideline?

smack
January 18th, 2001, 09:38 AM
I don't think there's any practical minimum. The new elliptical dish has the three LNBs within 10" of each other.

If you have any questions about the two-dish setup, shoot a note to gsd103...he's good at that stuff.

Good Luck!


Scott

robinhood
January 18th, 2001, 09:52 AM
Thanks a bunch, smack... http://www.dsschat.com/forum/images/icons/icon10.gif