Hi,
Looking at the following, my single message tracks have spiked, and everything else has gone to heck…
I’ve set gain back to MAX, but looking at the signal level, I dont believe these single tracks are due to the signal clipping / gain to high.
Am I correct?
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1BDkd46_5an-ftdgspDhbymKYfPUpRXcuqffhgYgwqco/pub?w=960&h=720
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I would look for a cable or connector problem.
Average and peak signal levels are lower that 2 days ago. The same for the noise level.
The golden rule of fault finding.
something changed or something broke.
If you didn’t make any changes then it is likely there is a problem somewhere in the line.
Were there any storms recently that could have allowed water into the connectors? Any movement or changes in the equipment.
Hi JohnHawkes,
Ahh, the weather!
There are some major differnces in that period.
The whole project here has been to replace my corroded coax and inline amp that got flooded over the christmas period.
Like others on here, I had my inline-sat-amp in a pvc tube, connected to a 5/8 coco outside.
The change recently was to replace the coax run with a known-good coax run (it was running my internal ant fine before I swapped it), and remove the amp (I now have a habAmp).
Taking the old mast down when replacing, the PVC holding the amp was full of water, and everything below that was corroded to heck (unsurprisngly!).
I’m using the same ant that was outside before, NB this ant hasnt been running since before Christmas - the “good” data in my stats is from a small, int spider amp.
So, just the run from the ant (N-F), through the wall (c7ft run) into a habAmp.
Needless to say I cant get at the ant end (dont have my own ladders), but putting my multimeter across the barrel and the pin of the inside-end f-plug didnt show any shorts.
This leads me to believe that either:
a) The ant’s damaged (didnt seem to be, corrosion only seemed apparent on the coax / amp / connectors that had been “swimming” in the PVC tube)
b) The “worked before” coax run has snapped the central core being pushed through the wall (unlikely)
c) The HabAmp’s not working (no power light, which would be nice). (Also unlikely).
Anyone know of any other useful tests I could run, using my multimeter?