I didnt like mine. I actually lost signal points and I can mark it up to a couple things
-the thing is friggin heavy
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Absolutely no regrets with the invacom. Very phase stable for trouble-free S2 signal reception and very good frequency accuracy that I can resolve the two mexican side by side narrow video carriers properly each time.
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I've recently got both LNBFs: Invacom QPH-031 and Monster LC-101 (DGL-101Q) to test. ......
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Good news is, since the clone went to sell in huge numbers, Invacom's guys seems to quietly widen QPH-031 spec without notice. Now both can easily and completely receive 118.7W TP freq. range via Circular port with 10750 freq. settings, but don't work at all in my setup with 118.7W via Linear port.
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I think that the QPH-031 was probably always capable of receiving a good bit down into the 11700-12200 band, however I doubt that much of that gets put out on the IF, because that would mean the freq would be in the 450-950 band, and that's asking a lot, ie basically half way down to DC. I'd guess that you'd only get down more than maybe to 800 MHz or so.
However regardless of whether the QPH-031 actually puts out any or all of the 450-950 band, I have yet to see an FTA receiver that would receive that band. To receive it, you'd need to use say the 11250 circular LO freq, then input say 11720 or something, and every FTA receiver I've seen will not let you do this, basically because the receiver isn't capable of tuning below 950 MHz.
B.J.
I'm still learning all tricks of this receiver. After reading your post I wanted to re-test. This time I followed the Guide, seems to be written to scan circular sats with SV 360 Elite hooked to an elliptical Multi-LNB dish, not a motorized setup. When scanning a sat, it suggests to switch OFF LNB voltage and Network Search for other (i.e. nearby for motorized setup) sats in Dish Setup. I was still getting some channels with LNB 10950 setting withing 118.7W TP freq. range (as ID'd in Channel Edit). However, they don't seem to resemble Anik F3 Channel Line-up as per Lyngsat. Then I went through the list of 118.7W TPs on a preset TP-list screen, and the receiver ID'd that the channels locked to were in fact 119W channels broadcast from TPs listed in 118.7 TP list and withing its freq. range (like 11898, etc).
A'm not sure about the root cause to fail scanning 118.7W at the moment, as my dish mount point is 20" higher than it should be on my balcony, and large part of the dish is obstructed from beam in 119W position. I guess, stronger 119W signal goes through anyway, but not Anik F3's. Not sure, why some TP freqs overlup on these sats. When I re-mount the dish, I revisit this issue. Its actually important, since the dish doesn't have side struts for LNB Bracket, so adding extra LNB to catch some free channels on 118.7 may lead to overweight issue.
What free channels are on 118.7?
Well, I'm not sure about that - would appreciate, if you suggest how to check that - but I do know that Invacom doesn't scan anything and neither register any S or Q (like no voltage is supplied to LNB from the receiver), if you switch it to 11250 at scanning 118.7W. Nada... If you're right, why the receiver tunes to these channels with Q=100 after calculating there freqs with such a huge error? And why only 3 TPs of 119W shows up (up to 12020 freq.) instead of all when scanning 118.7W? All 119W TPs show up (except these 3), when scanning 119W with 11250 freq, so its not a matter of stronger TPs.
Let me try this another way.I'm doing Sat Autoscan for 118.7W, while LNB is switched OFF in the receiver for 119W. Otherwise Autoscan produces many 119W channels, and Blind Scan produces a number of duplicated 119W channels on both 118.7W and 119W sat channel lists. I tested 11870 freq at 2000 V 7/8, and it gave a list of Echo 7 channels, when scanning this TP for 118.7W sat, while LNB is OFF for 119W sat. It looks like you're right on this one.
When you say, the receiver is tuning to 1120 for NASA channel - could you elaborate on this?
Yeah, sometimes people can't see transponders, and report that they aren't there. But relative to obsolete, it's probably just more a case of people are more likely to report a signal if it is new than they are when it goes away, so things tend to stay in Lyngsat long after they have gone away.As to Lyngsat, a lot of TP and Channel info is obsolete, but some of what people perceive obsolete may be caused by regional TP spot beam related differences - don't you think so?
B.J., very good test information from you. I do not give too much weight in the gain figures, as the receivers tuners all have Automatic Gain Control (AGC) circuitry built in to amplify the signal to the level required. Now, which tuners are better? Is the amplifier in the tuner better or the amplifier in the LNBF? Now any noise entered from the LNBF to the tuner will be amplified in the tuner, whereas, if amplified in the LNBF that noise would not be present. Now the manufacturer posted ratings, are they all measured on the same playing field.... are some exagerated or measured at specific points where their product shines and not where it operates poorly? ....
Well, you're saying that TP freq display is only for info purposes, but is not used by the receiver for tuning. When I scan a sat like Galaxy 19 with Single 10600 LNB freq., I get channel list and can watch channels. If I switch LNB freq to 10950, I can't watch any channel, until the sat is rescanned with this freq. That means to me, the receiver uses info data it shows on the screen (whether correct or not) to tune to channels. Is it not?
Switching OFF LNBs for a nearby sat in SV 360 Elite, when scanning a sat, prevents duplicate channel lists for both sats.
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