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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 12955" data-attributes="member: 174998">Shaun-once the dish positions are programmed into the receiver/positioner, they are fixed (at least, until you next explicitly re-program them). They do not automatically fine-tune to compensate for wind or anything else.The reason that the dish can blow off course and then return to its original position is that the dish mount/motor itself is not moving. IE, the mount stays fixed exactly where it was on the wall, and the motor (unless worn) will keep the dish fixed at its current position. The wind only bends the dish/pole - and when the wind drops again, it springs back to its actual original position. The amount of movement needed to lose the signal is miniscule.I can't imagine that switching the receiver off will upset the positioning. True, noise spikes in the cable can spurious motor pulses but I've only heard of that happening in badly insulated non-DiSEqC motors cables and never as a result of switching on/off. 5-yr old cable shouldn't be a problem so long as it was properly insulated (undamaged, with water-proofing at the LNB connection) and as long as it was proper sat-cable in the first place (so not the lower quality coax typically used for in-house TV signal distribution).2old</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 12955, member: 174998"] Shaun- once the dish positions are programmed into the receiver/positioner, they are fixed (at least, until you next explicitly re-program them). They do not automatically fine-tune to compensate for wind or anything else. The reason that the dish can blow off course and then return to its original position is that the dish mount/motor itself is not moving. IE, the mount stays fixed exactly where it was on the wall, and the motor (unless worn) will keep the dish fixed at its current position. The wind only bends the dish/pole - and when the wind drops again, it springs back to its actual original position. The amount of movement needed to lose the signal is miniscule. I can't imagine that switching the receiver off will upset the positioning. True, noise spikes in the cable can spurious motor pulses but I've only heard of that happening in badly insulated non-DiSEqC motors cables and never as a result of switching on/off. 5-yr old cable shouldn't be a problem so long as it was properly insulated (undamaged, with water-proofing at the LNB connection) and as long as it was proper sat-cable in the first place (so not the lower quality coax typically used for in-house TV signal distribution). 2old [/QUOTE]

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