It took some time, but I got both to work when connected directly to the antenna.
So I would have to think that the antenna (or the LNA) has degraded over time and is producing very marginal signal strength, barely enough for the Tbolts to operate. I am happy my Tbols are fine! The Lucent antenna I am using is the one Björn posted a photo of. I do have an HP 53582A and a Motorola antenna (I think the Motorola antenna only has 26db of gain like the Lucent). I guess the Tbolts just require a little more signal strength to operate properly. Thanks Said for the gentle pointer to the recent discussion. With the baby I don't get as much time to keep up with the list and I missed the whole thread. I will make a new mount for my HP antenna and get it up on the roof. I don't have the snow issues in Las Vegas that others might have. :-) Jamie --- On Sun, 1/3/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] thunderbolts not seeing satellites > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 5:56 PM > Hello Jamie, > > about a month ago there was a long thread that thoroughly > discussed the > problems folks have been seeing when running Thunderbolts > through splitters. > > You may want to search the archive, and take a look.. > > bye, > Said > > > In a message dated 1/3/2010 17:42:07 Pacific Standard > Time, > [email protected] > writes: > > Have you tried running it directly to the antenna, > minus the splitter? > > Joe > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On > Behalf Of James R. Gorr > Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 2:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [time-nuts] thunderbolts not seeing > satellites > > > > Hello everyone! Hope your new year is going well so > far. > > I have two Tbolts (one from TAPR and one from another guy), > and neither one > is locking on satellites. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
