Tom Mountford
Regular Member
- Joined
- Nov 18, 2004
- Messages
- 25
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- Age
- 42
- Website
- www.mediatart.co.uk
- My Satellite Setup
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1.2m motorised dish
Technomate TM1000-CI
Scientific Atlanta 9225
Scientific Atlanta 9661
Sony UVW Beta SP VTR
- My Location
- Norwich, Norfolk, UK
I’m a feedhunter having limited success. I use the SatcoDX website to get the transponder list for a satellite and manually add the transponders to my Technomate TM1000-CI (it took me a while to realise I needed to do that!!!). Here’s the FIRST problem, 95% of the transponders I program in receive no signal whatsoever even though SatcoDX shows me I am well within their footprint, and from the strong signal of other transponders I know the dish pointing must be spot-on. So if the transponder isn’t in use by a feed does it still broadcast black and sync to enable a receiver to find it… or is it totally ‘switched off’ and simply not going to show up in any scan? Do I need to program all the transponders into the receiver then at intervals re-scan for new channels to find ad-hoc broadcasts, saving the frequency to my favourites whilst it’s there?
Here’s the SECOND problem, of the transponders that do receive a signal the Technomate only finds some of the channels that should be broadcasting on them. Example: Eurobird-1 28.5E, Frequency 11.426GHz. My receiver finds 11.426GHz with a decent signal of 69%, and SatcoDX lists eight channels: OBE TV, Chart Show TV, POP, Tiny POP, Channel S, The Vault, TTV and BT Tower test card. All eight are MPEG2, SR 27500, FEC 2/3… in my mind the Technomate should find all eight channels but the BT Tower test card doesn’t show up. I’m getting the same problem with most of the transponders I programme in, channels that should be there just don’t show up???
Any advice???
Tom
Here’s the SECOND problem, of the transponders that do receive a signal the Technomate only finds some of the channels that should be broadcasting on them. Example: Eurobird-1 28.5E, Frequency 11.426GHz. My receiver finds 11.426GHz with a decent signal of 69%, and SatcoDX lists eight channels: OBE TV, Chart Show TV, POP, Tiny POP, Channel S, The Vault, TTV and BT Tower test card. All eight are MPEG2, SR 27500, FEC 2/3… in my mind the Technomate should find all eight channels but the BT Tower test card doesn’t show up. I’m getting the same problem with most of the transponders I programme in, channels that should be there just don’t show up???
Any advice???
Tom