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I was trying to set up my receiver to search for the AMC-9 KU INFO
card on this transponder. Instead of the test card I found what
appeared to be a crime scene feed, a long shot of a huge home
somewhere, with police cars all over the place, newsmen with cameras
passing in front of camera. At the end of the feed there was a color
bar slate with the following:

WCAU NBC-10
Philadelphia, PA
AMC-9


What I'm wondering is if I got the transponder programmed right, I am
using a Uniden Supra and just put a dual feedhorn on the feed, and
this was my first KU NTSC reception with this setup.

My question is, since Lyngsat shows this transponder as an AMC-9 INFO
CARD, could this transponder have been used for a feed instead of a
test card? Thee is nothing but noise up there now, is there usually
an info card up there? Any other KU NTSC open channels? I'm trying
to align the big dish since it was hammered in Katrina and Rita.

Jim

I was trying to set up my receiver to search for the AMC-9 KU INFO
card on this transponder. Instead of the test card I found what
appeared to be a crime scene feed, a long shot of a huge home
somewhere, with police cars all over the place, newsmen with cameras
passing in front of camera. At the end of the feed there was a color
bar slate with the following:

WCAU NBC-10
Philadelphia, PA
AMC-9


What I'm wondering is if I got the transponder programmed right, I am
using a Uniden Supra and just put a dual feedhorn on the feed, and
this was my first KU NTSC reception with this setup.

My question is, since Lyngsat shows this transponder as an AMC-9 INFO
CARD, could this transponder have been used for a feed instead of a
test card? Thee is nothing but noise up there now, is there usually
an info card up there? Any other KU NTSC open channels? I'm trying
to align the big dish since it was hammered in Katrina and Rita.

Best thing you can do is get a FTA/DVB receiver to slave in and you
will find any sat with no problems, and have access to wildfeeds and
such like the old days.

I have a Pansat 2500A and plan to slave in the Pansat as a future
project. Is there any site out there that gives you the particulars
of how this is done? From what I understand, you use the main
receiver, in my case a Uniden Supra, to move and point the dish to the
correct satellite. After this you switch over to the DVB receiver to
surf transponders. It would have to be a foolproof switching setup to
keep from messing up one or the other receivers.

I think with a multipole relay you could switch the feedhorn polarity
servo signals between the Uniden and the Pansat and a RF switch to
switch the RF input from the KU LNB, is there anything else that needs
to be switched? I think the Viddo/audio outputs would have to be
switched along with the others.

I guess what we need is for Pansat or some other to make an "all in
one" analog/digital receiver, just like there is now a linear/Circular
Ku feedhorn now available. "One receiver/feedhorn setup to rule them
all....."

Jim






Best thing you can do is get a FTA/DVB receiver to slave in and you
will find any sat with no problems, and have access to wildfeeds and
such like the old days.

I have a Pansat 2500A and plan to slave in the Pansat as a future
project. Is there any site out there that gives you the particulars
of how this is done? From what I understand, you use the main
receiver, in my case a Uniden Supra, to move and point the dish to the
correct satellite. After this you switch over to the DVB receiver to
surf transponders. It would have to be a foolproof switching setup to
keep from messing up one or the other receivers.

I think with a multipole relay you could switch the feedhorn polarity
servo signals between the Uniden and the Pansat and a RF switch to
switch the RF input from the KU LNB, is there anything else that needs
to be switched? I think the Viddo/audio outputs would have to be
switched along with the others.

I guess what we need is for Pansat or some other to make an "all in
one" analog/digital receiver, just like there is now a linear/Circular
Ku feedhorn now available. "One receiver/feedhorn setup to rule them
all....."

Best thing you can do is get a FTA/DVB receiver to slave in and you
will find any sat with no problems, and have access to wildfeeds and
such like the old days.

you need:

2 - 1 port power pass high frequency splitters-1 x c and 1 x ku band
1 -2 way diseqC sw.
cables

you connect the c and ku lines in from the dish to the 1 port power pass
splitters.Then the power pass side is connected to the c and ku inputs on
the Big dish receiver.....the non-powered side of both splitters connects to
the diseqC sw. which is connected to the DVB receiver.Then you enable the
sw. in the DVB receiver's menu and specify ie: port A = C band and port B
=ku..... for ea. satellite....and start scanning in channels....the analog
receiver controls polarity.

you need:

2 - 1 port power pass high frequency splitters-1 x c and 1 x ku band
1 -2 way diseqC sw.
cables

you connect the c and ku lines in from the dish to the 1 port power pass
splitters.Then the power pass side is connected to the c and ku inputs on
the Big dish receiver.....the non-powered side of both splitters connects to
the diseqC sw. which is connected to the DVB receiver.Then you enable the
sw. in the DVB receiver's menu and specify ie: port A = C band and port B
=ku..... for ea. satellite....and start scanning in channels....the analog
receiver controls polarity.

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:32:45 -0500, "Valdivar"
rebelleader68@hotmail.com> wrote:

you need:

2 - 1 port power pass high frequency splitters-1 x c and 1 x ku band
1 -2 way diseqC sw.
cables

Hey, this would work also. :)


you connect the c and ku lines in from the dish to the 1 port power pass
splitters.Then the power pass side is connected to the c and ku inputs on
the Big dish receiver.....the non-powered side of both splitters connects
to
the diseqC sw. which is connected to the DVB receiver.Then you enable the
sw. in the DVB receiver's menu and specify ie: port A = C band and port B
=ku..... for ea. satellite....and start scanning in channels....the analog
receiver controls polarity.


I find the diseq switches sometimes stick. How about you?
Nothing like ruining a good blind scan!

I also don't use blocking splitters so any one IRD can power the
LNB's. I guess that depends on your particular setup.