9200 Installed - Signal / Comments / With Piop 5070

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Live in Calgary and made the switch to Bell from Shaw. Purchased the 9200 and took 2 year deal to get free installation. Currently have two TV's and will use the 9200 to control both.

I find switching channels not to be as fast as Shaw was. Also the audio comes on before the video. Little annoying for changing channels. Why can't it switch channels instantly?

Also, I checked teh signal strength and it says Sat 82 Signal Strength 75 and Sat 91 Signal Strength 61. Shouldn't it be better than this and will it affect my viewing?

I have it hooked to a Pioneer Plasma 5070 so have the 9200 set for 1080i. Is that what most people do?
 
yes you should be getting a stronger signal - most of my 82's are in the high 80's-90's.

Slight channel lag is normal.

1080 or 720 - experiment what your plasma likes best
 
If those are correct numbers, you should be OK.
The picture starts falling apart with strength below 40. On a windy day.

Diogen.
 
I just looked again and the strenghts are 80 and 96 so I guess it won't be an issue. Would be nice if it could switch channels instantly.
 
Unlike VHS (analog), the satellite picture does not deteriorate gradually depending on signal strength.
It is rather binary - yes or no, you either see the picture or you don't.
The higher the quality of the tuner, the lower you can go in signal strength without risking the picture to fall apart.

Diogen.
 
Exactly. If you have a strong signal and it is degraded slightly by cloud cover/wind/snow/ice whatever then you won't notice a difference. If, however, you have a marginal signal then it won't take much to knock you off the air. And the original numbers supplied were indeed marginal.
 
One of the DIY installations I've seen, used a 18" dish to do both Nimiq's.
The dish was properly fastened to a mast but never showed strength on any of the HD channels above 55.
Excluding the couple days of pouring rain, it never missed a beat.

Also, the numbers reported by the receiver are questionable sometimes.
I've seen a case a receiver reporting strength of around 10 when the dish was looking into the ground.

Diogen.
 
Those numbwers are unacceptable and leave no headroom for rain fade ...
This is why I installed a two sepearate dish approach using larger dish for 82 ( HDTV ) and smaller one for 91 ( smearovision ) .

I use one dual LNB on each feeding 82 dual lines into SW44 and 92 dual lines into ASPEN multi-switch and feeding extra SD lines from ASPEN ( 2x4 ) into SW44 to allow a 6 receiver ( 2 x 9220 and 2 x SD ) setup.

This approach gives me 90 - 95 signal strength on 82 and same on 91 making rain and cloud fade a thing of the past . The elyptical dish setup is a compromise as it tries to accomodate both 82 and 91 by pointing in the middle of both therefore degrading overall signal strength.
 
use the guide to surf the channels, instead of the old, look at every picture from the 1980's
the channel lag is something that takes some getting used to for those coming from analogue cable
your signal will fluctuate depending on the weather outside, so dont worry about low signal, unless it is a clear sky, and your signal is in the 60's
 
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