David00
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Hello,
I’m planning a motorized satellite TV system for a property in southern Greece. This is to receive FreeSAT type content, in English mainly. The dish will be on a north-west facing wall clear of obstructions.
Have read about USALS and think I understand what it does – which is to point the dish at satellites who locations are stored in the receiver, as “offsets” to a reference point established at the outset.
Is there a way to get a motorised dish/receiver combo to do a blind search to locate all visible satellites when commissioning the system? So that I end up with a list of all the satellites the dish can see. I know most of these should already be stored in a USALS receiver. Time isn't an issue.
Once the system in operational, and I select a channel which causes USALS to position the dish, is there a way for the receiver to instruct the motor to hunt a little (a fraction of a degree perhaps) from the stored position, so as to find the optimum signal strength, and then update the stored position? Just in case high winds have changed the dish alignment slightly.
I'd welcome suggestions on a suitable dish/motor/receiver combo. I can go up to 1m in dish size, but then there's the wind... I’m reasonably technical, but not to the extent of hacking a Linux-based box, for example. Mid-range budget – whatever that is.
Thanks, David.
I’m planning a motorized satellite TV system for a property in southern Greece. This is to receive FreeSAT type content, in English mainly. The dish will be on a north-west facing wall clear of obstructions.
Have read about USALS and think I understand what it does – which is to point the dish at satellites who locations are stored in the receiver, as “offsets” to a reference point established at the outset.
Is there a way to get a motorised dish/receiver combo to do a blind search to locate all visible satellites when commissioning the system? So that I end up with a list of all the satellites the dish can see. I know most of these should already be stored in a USALS receiver. Time isn't an issue.
Once the system in operational, and I select a channel which causes USALS to position the dish, is there a way for the receiver to instruct the motor to hunt a little (a fraction of a degree perhaps) from the stored position, so as to find the optimum signal strength, and then update the stored position? Just in case high winds have changed the dish alignment slightly.
I'd welcome suggestions on a suitable dish/motor/receiver combo. I can go up to 1m in dish size, but then there's the wind... I’m reasonably technical, but not to the extent of hacking a Linux-based box, for example. Mid-range budget – whatever that is.
Thanks, David.
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