I think I will quit while I am ahead. I can use the meter and get a radio station when lined up. My initial post is incorrect, there are no SBS or ABC TV stations coming up in the search.
Don't know if this will help you but I've seen reports that Optus had changed some parameters that has caused things to not pick up the signal. Once these changes are implemented into a sat finder it picks them back up. What exactly the changes are I can't remember so do some searching on the setup for Optus into your meter and change those settings. Good luck.
I have tried changing frequencies but nothing seems to work. I can pick up one free radio station that has horizontal polarisation but nothing with vertical polarisation. The box worked less than a year ago but there are no recent posts that I can find about this satellite receiver. As said, I can find the satellite using the radio station so that will do for now.
Thanks for the help.
Your Satlink WS-6909 no longer shows a picture because the unit is only capable of decoding standard definition MPEG-2 signals, and most broadcasters have switched to MPEG-4 (H.264) or HD transmissions.
The WS-6909 hardware cannot decode modern MPEG-4 or HD video streams. Even if you have a strong signal lock, the screen will remain black or show no video for updated channels.
Satellite and terrestrial television providers have phased out legacy MPEG-2 feeds, rendering the live video playback feature on older Satlink meters obsolete.
Australian free-to-air broadcasters began rolling out MPEG-4 (H.264) and HD transmissions progressively starting around 2015, with major networks phasing out older MPEG-2 standard definition signals region-by-region through late 2025 and mid-2026
Your Satlink WS-6909 no longer shows a picture because the unit is only capable of decoding standard definition MPEG-2 signals, and most broadcasters have switched to MPEG-4 (H.264) or HD transmissions.
The WS-6909 hardware cannot decode modern MPEG-4 or HD video streams. Even if you have a strong signal lock, the screen will remain black or show no video for updated channels.
Satellite and terrestrial television providers have phased out legacy MPEG-2 feeds, rendering the live video playback feature on older Satlink meters obsolete.
Australian free-to-air broadcasters began rolling out MPEG-4 (H.264) and HD transmissions progressively starting around 2015, with major networks phasing out older MPEG-2 standard definition signals region-by-region through late 2025 and mid-2026
For anyone following or coming up against this issue in the future, fwdoz has supplied the answer. The box runs MPEG2 but the TV stations have upgraded to MPEG4, HD. The box cannot decode MPEG4.
Thanks fwdoz.
