Hello everyone,
My 3.7 meter dish is struggling some to pick up the NOAAPort signal
today. I use a Novra S75+ (latest firmware patch), a NORSAT 3120 LNB, and
using the Novramon software from Jose Nieves, I see this after running it
for about an hour:
Frequency: 1193.500000
SymbolRate: 6.349000
LNBFault: ok
SignalLock: on
DataLock: on
SignalStrength%: 77
VBER: 0.00e+00
Errors: 1621
ErrorRate: 0
DemodulatorGain: 78
NoiseEstimate: 11
DataSyncLoss: 0
ClockOffset: 33
FrequencyError: -1
It's never a good thing when the Demod gain is higher than the signal
strength. I like to see a ClockOffset of 30 or less for excellent
reception. Wondering if it was my system, I logged into the College of
DuPage's NOAAport receiver. They also use the same LNB and S75+ wih the
latest firmware, but they have a 3.0 meter dish.
Frequency 1193.500000
Symbol Rate 6.349000
VBER 1.6539e-02
Viterbi Rate 7
LNB Power ON
Polarization 1
Band 0
Long Line 1
Hi Voltage Mode 1
Signal Strength 75
DemodGain 59
C/N 100.000000
Signal Lock on
Data Lock on
Uncorrectables 127
Noise Estimate 13
Clock Offset 98
Frequency Error 0
ADC Midpoint Crossing 22
ADC Clipping Count 255
Digital Gain 0
Clamping Count 16
With this latest firmware update of the S75+, the largest error rate you
can have is indeed 1.6539e-02. And, doing an "ldmadmin watch", not
surprisingly, yields ZERO products from them.
So, anyone know what's going on? As they say, "it isn't us"....
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