irishguy2002
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Guys,
I was wondering if anyone can help out.
Background
I've had a motorised satellite installation installed over 2 years ago, it was time to a re-alignment and a new lnb. My location is Antrim, near belfast Northern Ireland. All USALS information is correct and per previous install which worked fine but was a little off. Photo's taken last night in the fog
_www.flickr.com/photos/58625229@N08
Alignment & LNB
The LNB on the dish was replaced and the dish put back up again and aligned again on the bracket and pole. On my dm800 we used the go to 0 (x) function and then aligned the dish again. It would seem that the dish (using go to 0) is currently on Thor 0.8.
Issue
When I changed channels to BBC News (0.8 West), I could hear and see the motor moving about 3 / 4 degrees to a new location. This new location does not allow me to view any channels.
I got to thinking that the reference point of go to 0 was correctly aligned to Thor so I went back and used go to 0 and then stored this position. Next I went into advanced setup on my dm800 and selected diseqc 1.2 and used the stored position for the sat. I went back to the channel and now 0.8 west is clearing fine.
Can anyone think of what has gone wrong here?
Using go to 0 and my current co-ordinates I'm bang on 0.8w - but using usals will not move to any satellite.
Can anyone offer any advice or reason why it won't track the arc correctly?
It seems that when it's moving it over shoots the sat location by a few degrees as I can see the signal strength / quality hit the correct levels for 1 sec then off again.
I've been able to use the positioner setup to search west and find 4.8e and then 13e and store these positions, I can't seem to find any other sats though.
I have noticed the the pole is somewhat lower than before by some 4/5 inches, I'm thinking this is causing a line of sight issue as the dish is on the back of the house and the roof maybe causing issues now. Sorry for the poor quality photos, I will upload better quality pics tomorrow Check out Sat Install mark 1..
Any help or advice would be great, the installer is coming back in a few days to help out again. It got too dark and cold to continue
Thanks,
Irish.
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I was wondering if anyone can help out.
Background
I've had a motorised satellite installation installed over 2 years ago, it was time to a re-alignment and a new lnb. My location is Antrim, near belfast Northern Ireland. All USALS information is correct and per previous install which worked fine but was a little off. Photo's taken last night in the fog
_www.flickr.com/photos/58625229@N08
Alignment & LNB
The LNB on the dish was replaced and the dish put back up again and aligned again on the bracket and pole. On my dm800 we used the go to 0 (x) function and then aligned the dish again. It would seem that the dish (using go to 0) is currently on Thor 0.8.
Issue
When I changed channels to BBC News (0.8 West), I could hear and see the motor moving about 3 / 4 degrees to a new location. This new location does not allow me to view any channels.
I got to thinking that the reference point of go to 0 was correctly aligned to Thor so I went back and used go to 0 and then stored this position. Next I went into advanced setup on my dm800 and selected diseqc 1.2 and used the stored position for the sat. I went back to the channel and now 0.8 west is clearing fine.
Can anyone think of what has gone wrong here?
Using go to 0 and my current co-ordinates I'm bang on 0.8w - but using usals will not move to any satellite.
Can anyone offer any advice or reason why it won't track the arc correctly?
It seems that when it's moving it over shoots the sat location by a few degrees as I can see the signal strength / quality hit the correct levels for 1 sec then off again.
I've been able to use the positioner setup to search west and find 4.8e and then 13e and store these positions, I can't seem to find any other sats though.
I have noticed the the pole is somewhat lower than before by some 4/5 inches, I'm thinking this is causing a line of sight issue as the dish is on the back of the house and the roof maybe causing issues now. Sorry for the poor quality photos, I will upload better quality pics tomorrow Check out Sat Install mark 1..
Any help or advice would be great, the installer is coming back in a few days to help out again. It got too dark and cold to continue
Thanks,
Irish.
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