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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1037484" data-attributes="member: 176704">Funny issue with the Free Sat 7HD yesterday - so please can anyone explain the following:On Saturday, CH came over, sorted out the dish alignment issue (turned out it was the Elevation and not the Declination that was &quot;off&quot;, even though I had set the former to &quot;my latitude&quot; according the scale on the motor!), and then ran a new CT125 cable from the dish to the receivers in the&nbsp; &quot;Office&quot;, following by some comparative testing on Signal Strength , Character Noise and Bit Error Rates with both existing and new cables - and got the levels much better with the new cable.Later, I had little difficulty in getting the Dakar 1 &amp; 2 channels on the TM5402 M3, but the audio levels were, as previously, very low, so yesterday afternoon I switched to the Free Sat and - after having a lot of trouble finding the Dakar channels (had to delete 10E and reinstall it, manually add the relevant transponder numbers and then rescan the satellite) - I got them working at good levels.HOWEVER, for the first 5-10 minutes on Dakar 1 &amp; 2, the picture was an almost totally blank &amp; weird &quot;pink&quot; colour except at the top edge, then it very gradually cleared and stabilised, and was fine after that - even when I tuned away from that channel or even to another satellite and then back again, the picture cleared almost immediately every time.I realise that it can take a short time for a receiver to stabilise on a channel, but what I saw yesterday seems an unusually long period.NB: didn't see the same effects on any other channel on 10E or elsewhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1037484, member: 176704"] Funny issue with the Free Sat 7HD yesterday - so please can anyone explain the following: On Saturday, CH came over, sorted out the dish alignment issue (turned out it was the Elevation and not the Declination that was "off", even though I had set the former to "my latitude" according the scale on the motor!), and then ran a new CT125 cable from the dish to the receivers in the "Office", following by some comparative testing on Signal Strength , Character Noise and Bit Error Rates with both existing and new cables - and got the levels much better with the new cable. Later, I had little difficulty in getting the Dakar 1 & 2 channels on the TM5402 M3, but the audio levels were, as previously, very low, so yesterday afternoon I switched to the Free Sat and - after having a lot of trouble finding the Dakar channels (had to delete 10E and reinstall it, manually add the relevant transponder numbers and then rescan the satellite) - I got them working at good levels. HOWEVER, for the first 5-10 minutes on Dakar 1 & 2, the picture was an almost totally blank & weird "pink" colour except at the top edge, then it very gradually cleared and stabilised, and was fine after that - even when I tuned away from that channel or even to another satellite and then back again, the picture cleared almost immediately every time. I realise that it can take a short time for a receiver to stabilise on a channel, but what I saw yesterday seems an unusually long period. NB: didn't see the same effects on any other channel on 10E or elsewhere. [/QUOTE]

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