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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1031194" data-attributes="member: 176704">@CHHaving now reset the TM default sat list in USALS (thanks again - those instructions do appear to have worked)&nbsp; then USALS reliability seems to be quite a bit better - but I still can't distinguish between 52E, 52.5E &amp; 53E in terms of the channels on each one. Will probably settle for the best compromise position for all of them @ 52.5E nominal.Similarly, it can't distinguish between 30W and 31.5W and so a blind-scan on the latter throws up mainly channels on the former - but I can then find Cherifla on 31.5 if I delete all the channels found by that scan and then search on the specific frequency for that channel.I'm guessing that I would probably never do any better unless the dish was a lot bigger (which can't/won't happen). because the lack of &quot;selectivity&quot; is due to that rather than the motor.There also still seems to be some unpredictability when changing between channels, especially if they are on widely spaced sats - and I may still experiment with slightly off-setting my location longitude in the USALS set-up when I determine whether that should be E or W (currently, I'm thinking very slightly W).Thanks again to everyone for all the help - and it's been quite an enlightening (not to say frustrating at times) exercise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1031194, member: 176704"] @CH Having now reset the TM default sat list in USALS (thanks again - those instructions do appear to have worked) then USALS reliability seems to be [I]quite[/I] a bit better - but I still can't distinguish between 52E, 52.5E & 53E in terms of the channels on each one. Will probably settle for the best compromise position for all of them @ 52.5E nominal. Similarly, it can't distinguish between 30W and 31.5W and so a blind-scan on the latter throws up mainly channels on the former - but I can then find Cherifla on 31.5 if I delete all the channels found by that scan and then search on the specific frequency for that channel. I'm guessing that I would probably never do any better unless the dish was a lot bigger (which can't/won't happen). because the lack of "selectivity" is due to that rather than the motor. There also still seems to be some unpredictability when changing between channels, especially if they are on widely spaced sats - and I may still experiment with slightly off-setting my location longitude in the USALS set-up when I determine whether that should be E or W (currently, I'm thinking [I]very[/I] slightly W). Thanks again to everyone for all the help - and it's been quite an enlightening (not to say frustrating at times) exercise. [/QUOTE]

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