On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Dan Vietor wrote:
We received no data for about 40 minutes. We're getting data now
(started about 1920Z) but its very noisy. The BER is in the 10e-3
range.
Yes, me too. I have a 3.8 meter dish, slightly blocked at the bottom, so
it's more like 3.7 meters. My stats as of 19:32Z:
RF Status
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Symbol Rate 6.349000 Msps
Frequency 1193.500000
LO Frequency 5150
VBER 1.1341e-02 <---this should be zero
Viterbi Rate 7
LNB Power ON
Polarization 1
Band 0
Long Line 0
Hi Voltage Mode 0
Signal Strength 80
DemodGain 76
C/N 100.000000
Signal Lock 1
Data Lock 1
Uncorrectables 127
Noise Estimate 13
Clock Offset 98
Frequency Error 0
ADC Midpoint Crossing 16
ADC Clipping Count 255
Digital Gain 0
Clamping Count 0
Yep, something is interfering with it big time. I am now seeing noisy data
(small sized files only getting through) as well.
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