[mythtv-users] Strange dvb-s lock issues

[Duncan Brown]

Mark Guz wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a strange problem with my hauppauge nova dvb-s2 card and mythtv.
>
> When I connected up for the first time I could get no lock to any
> transponders. It worked ok on the normal settop box. I did much
> googling and learned many things about sattelite signals and voltage
> and horizontal and vertical things and diseqc settings etc etc and set
> everything up as advised (I'm tuned to Astra 2D). Still it would not
> work, until I made a strange discovery. I started to unscrew the cable
> from the card one time while myth was trying to scan channels and just
> as i had the connector nearly off it suddenly got a lock and started
> working perfectly.
>
> I figured it was a dodgy connector so i replaced it. However when I
> rebooted myth I found it couldn't lock again.. Until I unscrewed the
> connector and wiggled it a little on the card socket. then once again
> I have no problems getting all of the freesat channels.
>
> I am completely stumped. I do not need to do this on the old sky
> digibox i've got, just on the dvb-s2 card. And before you say it's the
> card. I had an HVR-3000, and a Nova dvb-s card and they behave the
> same.
>
> Does anyone out there have a clue why wiggling the connector loosely
> on the card would allow the lock to happen? and why this would only
> happen on the computer and not the digibox?
>   
Its the same for my DVB-S card, the signal is too strong for it and is 
overloading it.

You need to get hold of an inline attenuator, ebay is probably the best bet

Dunc