Andrew de Quincey wrote: >>>That is sort of what I was thinking in desperation and my first hack :) >>>The only thing it didn't do is set the tone/voltage settings again - >>>which may explain why the first hack didn't retune - thats what I'm >>>trying now - a combination of set tone/voltage plus reset & FE settings. >>But i was thinking whether we would treating the symptom in that case .. >>I was wondering why the lock goes off at all in the first case .. > > Oh yeah, I agree the hack is doing stuff with the symptoms - I'm just trying > to identify what fixes it so we can track down the cause. > > Do the multiswitches where you saw the problem support anything about > tone/voltage switching BTW? > No switches.. connected directly.. DVB-Card-->Splitter-->Amplifier-->LNB. The amplifier was there because of a long RG-11 cable.. The Amplifier was near the LNB (approx 10m away, to reduce input noise) Manu