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Have I misunderstood what a channel update achieves?
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<blockquote data-quote="SoSatnaive" data-source="post: 1117723" data-attributes="member: 414674"><p>Thank you all for your help. I used william-1's transponder list and established that I could see the 3 satellites I mentioned at comparable signal quality. I then went to the satellites that are positioned variously between these 3 and realised that by tweaking east/west rather more than I'd done previously, I could often find the satellite concerned. Doing this I've found most of the ones on the list in the 28E to 4.5E range at good signal strength and quality, and can now also see satellites at 1.9E, 0.7W, 1W and even 5W (having removed some plants growing at the edge of my garden-based dish). I haven't found Eutelsat-21B, Eutelsat-3B, ABS-3A, Amos-7 or Amos3. I'm not sure why, since they fall inside the range I can now see, but I'm sure I can live without those. So, thanks to your collective help I've gone from 3 to 14 satellites and realised that a channel update is what it says and updates the channels on each satellite, but doesn't make the dish point correctly at each satellite if it wasn't doing that already. (I now think I must have known at least some of this stuff in order to successfully set the system up 10 years ago, but I've learned that 10 years is plenty of time to forget a lot when you are past 70 - apologies if I've wasted your time).</p><p></p><p>Please can I ask 2 more questions arising from the above -</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If I save the current channel settings to usb on the TM5402HD now, will that save any changes I made in east/west tweaks to find those satellites?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I can see entries in the satellite list on my tuner, falling between some of the satellites, that are labelled 'Feeds' - what are they?</li> </ol><p></p><p>Again, many thanks for your helpful suggestions.</p><p></p><p>(BTW - the info you requested: I'm using DiSEqC 1.2 to move the dish, which is 90 cm, not 1m as I said initially. Google says the dish coordinates are: Latitude 52.43deg, Longitude -1.96deg)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoSatnaive, post: 1117723, member: 414674"] Thank you all for your help. I used william-1's transponder list and established that I could see the 3 satellites I mentioned at comparable signal quality. I then went to the satellites that are positioned variously between these 3 and realised that by tweaking east/west rather more than I'd done previously, I could often find the satellite concerned. Doing this I've found most of the ones on the list in the 28E to 4.5E range at good signal strength and quality, and can now also see satellites at 1.9E, 0.7W, 1W and even 5W (having removed some plants growing at the edge of my garden-based dish). I haven't found Eutelsat-21B, Eutelsat-3B, ABS-3A, Amos-7 or Amos3. I'm not sure why, since they fall inside the range I can now see, but I'm sure I can live without those. So, thanks to your collective help I've gone from 3 to 14 satellites and realised that a channel update is what it says and updates the channels on each satellite, but doesn't make the dish point correctly at each satellite if it wasn't doing that already. (I now think I must have known at least some of this stuff in order to successfully set the system up 10 years ago, but I've learned that 10 years is plenty of time to forget a lot when you are past 70 - apologies if I've wasted your time). Please can I ask 2 more questions arising from the above - [LIST=1] [*]If I save the current channel settings to usb on the TM5402HD now, will that save any changes I made in east/west tweaks to find those satellites? [*]I can see entries in the satellite list on my tuner, falling between some of the satellites, that are labelled 'Feeds' - what are they? [/LIST] Again, many thanks for your helpful suggestions. (BTW - the info you requested: I'm using DiSEqC 1.2 to move the dish, which is 90 cm, not 1m as I said initially. Google says the dish coordinates are: Latitude 52.43deg, Longitude -1.96deg) [/QUOTE]
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