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<blockquote data-quote="Stargazer" data-source="post: 9936">The automatic scan feature on the Strong does not do any calculation of satellite positions - it just sweeps the dish from endstop to endstop until it encounters a signal (I believe that it looks for the frequency of the first transponder for each satellite). As it moves the dish at full speed, it will overshoot if a signal is discovered, but it then stops the dish and moves back and forth in decreasing arcs until it gets the best position. If it cannot find any signal for a satellite, it will try a complete sweep of the dish 2 or 3 times before giving up and moving on to the next one.It does sometimes get the wrong details (eg confusing Thor and Intelsat707) but you can always manually redo a specific satellite.The 1.02 software DOES have one new feature of note - a Network Search option (under Satellite Setup/Configuration) - when set this appears to detect new transponders when scanning a satellite - running this on Astra 2 which I had previous set up with only those containing FTA channels gave me lots of new TPs (and a stack of channels presented in glorious Videoguard...)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stargazer, post: 9936"] The automatic scan feature on the Strong does not do any calculation of satellite positions - it just sweeps the dish from endstop to endstop until it encounters a signal (I believe that it looks for the frequency of the first transponder for each satellite). As it moves the dish at full speed, it will overshoot if a signal is discovered, but it then stops the dish and moves back and forth in decreasing arcs until it gets the best position. If it cannot find any signal for a satellite, it will try a complete sweep of the dish 2 or 3 times before giving up and moving on to the next one. It does sometimes get the wrong details (eg confusing Thor and Intelsat707) but you can always manually redo a specific satellite. The 1.02 software DOES have one new feature of note - a Network Search option (under Satellite Setup/Configuration) - when set this appears to detect new transponders when scanning a satellite - running this on Astra 2 which I had previous set up with only those containing FTA channels gave me lots of new TPs (and a stack of channels presented in glorious Videoguard...) [/QUOTE]

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