Hi,
I need some advice on strange problem that has cropped up. I have just upgraded my dish to a 1.1m triax (from a 90cm)and the signal strength has dropped dramatically on 13 and 28 east. In some cases it is coming up with bad signal eg Super Tennis on 13 east. Now here is the strange thing I have a VU Solo 2 plus box attached to the same dish and LNB and the signal strength has increased on all the channels (as you would expect from a bigger dish). Its a twin LNB so I swapped the cables from the VU plus to the technomate but the results are exactly the same! The dish is aligned correctly (as the VU Plus is working fine)and the cabling is also spot on (this was replaced when I upgraded the dish and motor. One other strange thing is that on the technomate when I had the 90cm dish I used to struggle to tune MUTV on 10 east but now this is showing around 84% - so this suggests the technomate is working well on some channels / satellites. I am genuinely confused as to why the signal has dropped on 13 and 28 east for the technomate but not the VU plus (on exactly the same channels). I was just going to buy a mk3 technomate (to replace the mk2) but I was worried of spending another £90.00 and the problem still being there. Just one other thing the techomate had patch 106 on it when it was installed and I did try to put another patch on it a few months ago which failed so I went back to the 106. I didn't check exactly how to do this and after restoring the 106 patch I had to keep keying in the pin number 0000 when going to the different menus (this wasn't the case earlier). I am wondering now if I have corrupted the technomate? Sorry for the long winded post but I just wanted to give all the information.
I need some advice on strange problem that has cropped up. I have just upgraded my dish to a 1.1m triax (from a 90cm)and the signal strength has dropped dramatically on 13 and 28 east. In some cases it is coming up with bad signal eg Super Tennis on 13 east. Now here is the strange thing I have a VU Solo 2 plus box attached to the same dish and LNB and the signal strength has increased on all the channels (as you would expect from a bigger dish). Its a twin LNB so I swapped the cables from the VU plus to the technomate but the results are exactly the same! The dish is aligned correctly (as the VU Plus is working fine)and the cabling is also spot on (this was replaced when I upgraded the dish and motor. One other strange thing is that on the technomate when I had the 90cm dish I used to struggle to tune MUTV on 10 east but now this is showing around 84% - so this suggests the technomate is working well on some channels / satellites. I am genuinely confused as to why the signal has dropped on 13 and 28 east for the technomate but not the VU plus (on exactly the same channels). I was just going to buy a mk3 technomate (to replace the mk2) but I was worried of spending another £90.00 and the problem still being there. Just one other thing the techomate had patch 106 on it when it was installed and I did try to put another patch on it a few months ago which failed so I went back to the 106. I didn't check exactly how to do this and after restoring the 106 patch I had to keep keying in the pin number 0000 when going to the different menus (this wasn't the case earlier). I am wondering now if I have corrupted the technomate? Sorry for the long winded post but I just wanted to give all the information.