[mythtvnz] Hello! And DVB-S woes...

[Neil Bertram]

Yes I turned the gain down and down until I had it as strong as I could.
The gain was on about -1 at that point.  I think just searching for
frequencies that should exist should work. Given that tuning the same
card with the same LNB to 1883V with dvbtune works for Steven, I think
it should probably work for me too...


Neil

Tim, Donna & Erin Gibson wrote:
> Neil
>
> When you aimed the dish with the satfinder did you turn it down and tighten 
> the aim to get the highest reading possible?  As i said before you really 
> need something more than a command to the card you've got to get your hands 
> on a receiver already with the channels etc in it to make you life a lot 
> easier.
>
> Tim
>
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:11, Neil Bertram wrote:
>   
>>> Neil - you have exactly the same LNB as me. Try the following on your PC
>>>
>>> dvbtune -t 1 -f 1883000 -s 22500 -D 0 -p v -m
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> dvbtune -t 1 -f 1883000 -s 22500 -D 0 -p h -m
>>>
>>> At the moment they are doing hpol testing on D1 and the signal is
>>> stronger.
>>>
>>>
>>> Then try adjusting the dish until you get a signal.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>       
>> Well I've finished yet another session up on the roof with no results. I
>> tried 1883 on both H and V:
>>
>> mothergoose:~# dvbtune -tone 1 -f 1883000 -s 22500 -D 0 -p v -m
>> Using DVB card "ST STV0299 DVB-S"
>> tuning DVB-S to L-Band:0, Pol:V Srate=22500000, 22kHz=on
>> polling....
>> Getting frontend event
>> FE_STATUS:
>> polling....
>> Getting frontend event
>> FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_CARRIER
>> polling....
>> polling....
>> polling....
>>
>> mothergoose:~# dvbtune -tone 1 -f 1883000 -s 22500 -D 0 -p h -m
>> Using DVB card "ST STV0299 DVB-S"
>> tuning DVB-S to L-Band:0, Pol:H Srate=22500000, 22kHz=on
>> polling....
>> Getting frontend event
>> FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_CARRIER
>> polling....
>> Getting frontend event
>> FE_STATUS:
>> polling....
>> Getting frontend event
>> FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_CARRIER
>> polling....
>> polling....
>> polling....
>>
>> But nothing else. The dish is aimed smack on at where D1 should be at
>> 160E (311 degrees on my compass, up 39.9 degrees from my location) and
>> the sat finder was going crazy there.
>>
>> I don't have myth installed on that box yet, so didn't have dvbscan, but
>> I tried manually tuning into some frequencies on B1 and B3 as well as a
>> few from D1, on both H and V, and saw nothing more than the above
>> outputs for any of them.
>>
>> I think I'm ready to accept the card is just dead. I'll hunt around for
>> something else to test with.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Neil
>>
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