Losing Channels

Unlurk

A brilliant read here on Bill's channel but now I'd like some help!

I have an old Fortec Star sat Rx which I use on Hotbird to watch the RAI channels. A while ago I lost some channels and assumed it was to do with snow on the dish or perhaps snow on a nearby tree but now I've rescanned and lost all the channels I watch! I noticed yesterday that the scan seems to stop suddenly half way through and save those that it has found. So now I have only god/girls/polska ( all with a good picture ). Is my Rx dying? If so, does it go in the brown, green or blue bin?
Thanks.

"stuart" wrote in message
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Unlurk

A brilliant read here on Bill's channel but now I'd like some help!

I have an old Fortec Star sat Rx which I use on Hotbird to watch the RAI
channels. A while ago I lost some channels and assumed it was to do with
snow on the dish or perhaps snow on a nearby tree but now I've rescanned and
lost all the channels I watch! I noticed yesterday that the scan seems to
stop suddenly half way through and save those that it has found. So now I
have only god/girls/polska ( all with a good picture ). Is my Rx dying? If
so, does it go in the brown, green or blue bin?
Thanks.



Time to plan the funeral I think.
Here in Cyprus anything like an old computer or your RX if we put it on the
pavement next to the bins somone will see it and take it hopefully home.
Saves the guilty feeling I get when throwing anything like that away.
Y

On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:13:11 +0200, Y Dangle wrote:

Time to plan the funeral I think.
Here in Cyprus anything like an old computer or your RX if we put it on the
pavement next to the bins somone will see it and take it hopefully home.
Saves the guilty feeling I get when throwing anything like that away.
Y

I've had a Panasonic Breadmaker for about 8 years, at the weekend whilst
doing Pizza dough it made a bid for freedom & fell off the worktop (placed
with 2 feet over the edge I suspect). All the plastics were smashed so
unusable & BER, but all the innards still worked. Rather than bin it, I
stripped it down & will flog all the bits as spares on ebay. I should
recoup a sizeable percentage of the cost of the replacement.

Yes, dead. I tried another Rx and all back to normal. Strange that the F Star lost channels rather than just expiring?
No use to put it on the pavement here as we have no Romanians hereabouts.

stuart wrote:
Yes, dead. I tried another Rx and all back to normal. Strange that the F Star lost channels rather than just expiring?

Satellite boxes often become faulty in that manner.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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stuart wrote:
Yes, dead. I tried another Rx and all back to normal. Strange that the F
Star lost channels rather than just expiring?

Satellite boxes often become faulty in that manner.


Only a guess, but if it isn't the tuner then might it simply be capacitors
failing in the LNB supply section of the power supply?
Firstly the 18 volt supply dropping off to a point where the horizontal
channels become iffy and then totally disappear, finally dropping off below
13 volts so that there are no longer any vertical channels being received
either, if so changing a few caps my well quite cheaply restore everything
back to normal.

Rick wrote:


"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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stuart wrote:
Yes, dead. I tried another Rx and all back to normal. Strange that
the F Star lost channels rather than just expiring?

Satellite boxes often become faulty in that manner.


Only a guess, but if it isn't the tuner then might it simply be
capacitors failing in the LNB supply section of the power supply?
Firstly the 18 volt supply dropping off to a point where the horizontal
channels become iffy and then totally disappear, finally dropping off
below 13 volts so that there are no longer any vertical channels being
received either, if so changing a few caps my well quite cheaply restore
everything back to normal.


I vaguely remember a rash of boxes suffering from faulty feedthrough
caps. It upset the tuners in some way.

Bill

On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:34:43 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Rick wrote:


"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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stuart wrote:
Yes, dead. I tried another Rx and all back to normal. Strange that
the F Star lost channels rather than just expiring?

Satellite boxes often become faulty in that manner.


Only a guess, but if it isn't the tuner then might it simply be
capacitors failing in the LNB supply section of the power supply?
Firstly the 18 volt supply dropping off to a point where the horizontal
channels become iffy and then totally disappear, finally dropping off
below 13 volts so that there are no longer any vertical channels being
received either, if so changing a few caps my well quite cheaply restore
everything back to normal.


I vaguely remember a rash of boxes suffering from faulty feedthrough
caps. It upset the tuners in some way.

Bill

There were two tiny surface mount decoupling RF caps in the tuner of
the original Amstrad DRX200 digibox that caused "no signal", It was a
lot easier to simply remove them than to replace them. The box seemed
to work OK afterwards, I did loads like that.

--
Graham.

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