Help needed please

[jimmyireland35]

Ok,


I will try that over the next few days and see what happens...........



More than likely I will be back to you lancelot.........


I see that you also helped another Tralee person set up a motorised system some months back.........

I have PM him and hopefully he will come back to me



jimmyireland

Right - back to motor on 0 first. then get a measuring stick and loosen the bolts holding the dish on the spindle , set the dish at a right angle to the motor body by measuring from either side of the lip of the dish to a reference point on either side of the motor body. Lock it up. Now you will (hopefully) need to move the whole pole to peak on 8W again.
Your elevation is roughly alright for the minute.

That should improve things.


L.

 

[Lancelot]

No problem jimmy, best to take the time and get it right. You are not far off now. You don't want to be up there in the winter fine tuning it man O-Ha


Cheers


L.

 

[jimmyireland35]

Lancelot.................


Did what you advised as regards squaring and from what I can make out......the dish is square to within 1cm....................I had to realign the motor on the pole and
I am now getting the following readings

8West 77% Signal with 90% Quality

all the eastern satellites but this time including 28.2E giving 77% Signal and 81% quality. ( I could not get this before....Things are looking up). At 28.5 East the best I get is 75% Signal with 25% quality and no quality at all in some transponders

I can get 15 West but with readings of 74 Signal and 65% quality.....picture is blocking/breaking up a bit at this readings........


Any further advise please

Thanks
jimmyireland

Ok,


I will try that over the next few days and see what happens...........



More than likely I will be back to you lancelot.........


I see that you also helped another Tralee person set up a motorised system some months back.........

I have PM him and hopefully he will come back to me



jimmyireland

 

[jimmyireland35]

Can anyone help me further with this please



jimmyireland

Lancelot.................


Did what you advised as regards squaring and from what I can make out......the dish is square to within 1cm....................I had to realign the motor on the pole and
I am now getting the following readings

8West 77% Signal with 90% Quality

all the eastern satellites but this time including 28.2E giving 77% Signal and 81% quality. ( I could not get this before....Things are looking up). At 28.5 East the best I get is 75% Signal with 25% quality and no quality at all in some transponders

I can get 15 West but with readings of 74 Signal and 65% quality.....picture is blocking/breaking up a bit at this readings........


Any further advise please

Thanks
jimmyireland

 

[john_graydon]

Can anyone help me further with this please



jimmyireland

What I usually do is Move the motor clamped with the dish left or right depending on what sats I cant get. So If your not getting anything further than 28e move the motor east a bit leaving the dish it tact with it. Further adjustments might be needed on the elevation of the dish as well. One thing I noticed with some dishes and motors is that the measurement scale might be a notch or 2 off, so look at that end of things.
Mark the dish and motor settings before you start again just in cas it gets worse than it is now. I also move the motor manually with the remote and store the settings, rather than putting my long & Lat figs in.

 

[jimmyireland35]

Thanks for that , but if I move the motor and dish I will lose my highest point on the arc which is 8 West, and surely I will lose the sats on the side opposite the direction in which I move.....................




jimmyireland

What I usually do is Move the motor clamped with the dish left or right depending on what sats I cant get. So If your not getting anything further than 28e move the motor east a bit leaving the dish it tact with it. Further adjustments might be needed on the elevation of the dish as well. One thing I noticed with some dishes and motors is that the measurement scale might be a notch or 2 off, so look at that end of things.
Mark the dish and motor settings before you start again just in cas it gets worse than it is now. I also move the motor manually with the remote and store the settings, rather than putting my long & Lat figs in.

 

[jimmyireland35]

Can any one help me to finalise this set up please...........


jimmyireland

 

[Lancelot]

Hi Jimmy.

What are your furthest east / west sats and signals on all the ones you can get now.


L.

 

[jimmyireland35]

Hi Lancelot..........


I can get 28.2 East with 77% Signal and 81% Quality

28.5E with 75% Signal and 25% Quality

and out to 15 West 74% Signal and 65% Quality

Hi Jimmy.

What are your furthest east / west sats and signals on all the ones you can get now.


L.

 

[Lancelot]

Ok - I take it you are getting everything in between at good sig level is that the case ?

L.

 

[jimmyireland35]

I do not seem to be able to get 23.5E or 26 East


thanks


jimmy

Ok - I take it you are getting everything in between at good sig level is that the case ?

L.

 

[john_graydon]

Thanks for that , but if I move the motor and dish I will lose my highest point on the arc which is 8 West, and surely I will lose the sats on the side opposite the direction in which I move.....................




jimmyireland

Exactly because you will never get it the way it is now, you have to move something even the elevation of the dish. Somethings off. Either elevation of disn/ Motor elevation or motor not lined up correctly. You cant keep it the way you have it so it has to be moved.

 

[john_graydon]

I do not seem to be able to get 23.5E or 26 East


thanks


jimmy

Move it east so.

 

[Lancelot]

That'll be your dish size and location probably as well . Try 10758v 22000 on 23E and see if you get anything.

John g is right. something is out of kilter.


L.

 

[jimmyireland35]

Back to you again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Whan I input the information 10758 V etc I get a reading of 82% signal and 96% Quality but cannot down load any channels

Very strange?????????????

That'll be your dish size and location probably as well . Try 10758v 22000 on 23E and see if you get anything.

John g is right. something is out of kilter.


L.

 

[Lancelot]

Well - clearly your dish is working.

They are (there are 2) HD channels.

Looking good so far.
Ok go to 42'e and see what you get on 11096V 27500.

L.

 

[jimmyireland35]

Sorry for not getting back to everyone last night.......we had a power failure here for some reason........


Any way this is getting more and more frustrating............

If I am at 13 East and go channel search, select Astra 23 East and put in the frequency for 23 East that you gave me 10758 V 22000 I get a signal reading of 80% with 95% quality. When I send the dish on it's way it moves ok stops but does not download any channels.

However when I do the same from 28.2 I do not get any reading..............


What is going on here............. )(-red )(-red )(-red )(-red )(-red


Getting very angry and frustrated and not far off pulling the motor of the wall, selling it and forgetting about the whole thing

 

[claasi]

Could be two things you might check since I faced the same "problem". One thing is after running to all the Sats I was able to receive I suddenly ran out of memory. Because the channel storage was full. When I scanned the channels they did not go into the list and were shown.

The other thing. Are you searching on FTA or encrypted channels. On some receivers you can select what he should scan. Now if you are on a Transponder that only has FTA und your search is for encrypted channels he will not find anything.

Could this be your problem ?

 

[rolfw]

If you are relying purely on the USALS/Goto function to tell the dish where to go, then you will get these problems, I have yet to find one which sends the dish perfectly to every satellite and regularly have to manually move the dish using the E/W buttons before saving.

 

[claasi]

If you are relying purely on the USALS/Goto function to tell the dish where to go, then you will get these problems, I have yet to find one which sends the dish perfectly to every satellite and regularly have to manually move the dish using the E/W buttons before saving.

Rolf just wondering, do you have to adjust sometimes with the E/W buttons already since I heard that after a while the motor gears perish after some time. How old is your Motek and do you face this problem already ?

Mine is just about half a year old but so far I did not have to adjust and USALS does its job good. Finds the exact position and signal is good since I checked manually already if he is really on the proper position ;)