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On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:12:43 -0500, RA-5C <RA-5CNOSPAM@alzonia.com> wrote:
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>irwell wrote:
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>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:43:31 -0500, RA-5C <RA-5CNOSPAM@alzonia.com> wrote:
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>> >It appears that Georgia Public Television should be available to 4DTV
>> >owners at AMC-3 and transponder 640. When I attempt to view it all that
>> >is shown is the receiver generated banner of Georgia Public TV, but with
>> >no picture. Has anyone had any luck getting this transmission?
>> >I have not had any luck getting the public television and state operated
>> >public broadcast telecasts from this particular satellite.
>> Do you get Channel 600 OK? I do, but cannot get 640 even
>> with tickling the skew and other parameters.
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>I could not get PBS on K3-600 until the dish and skew was repeaked. Then it
>came in fine.
>Still could not get Georgia Public Broadcast. Tried to access 640 by
>channeling up from 600 and by directly entering the digits 640. Tried to
>repeak the dish and skew knowing that the channel was an even channel as is
>600 and on the same sat. Still nothing happened.
>Then I started fooling with the Guide and looking at the GPB programing. Tried
>to access the 640 channel by picking the program and hitting the ENTER key. My
>problem was that I tried to access a program that had already aired. Then luck
>stuck. Once again I tried to access GPB but this time by picking the current
>program that was being broadcast. And magically the 640 GPB came to life.
>Try this and see if you can get GPB. I am new to this receiver, only having it
>up and going for two days. Good luck!
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Didn't work for me, you should join the Satform 4dtv
section, lots of useful info there.
http://forums.satforums.com/SatForumMaster/start/login....