motor goes in only one direction

[ginger]

hi got my motor moving using usals but it now only goes in the one direction. it picks up evrything east ok but when i try to pick up somthing on the west it simply goes in the opposite direction i.e goes east. going to see if that is a common problem but if anyone has any ideas i would be glad if you could let me know.

i have a technomate 5500ci super and i am using a digipower motor.

cheers

 

[Park Royal]

Have you tried, "Go To Reference"?
Parky

 

[rolfw]

Have you entered your coordinates correctly in the USALs menu?

 

[ginger]

hi there. i have still not got it sorted. what i done was i moved the satellite manually until i picked up thor. i got a reception on that and then clicked on usals and saw i was getting a signal and that i could pick up a signal for all of the satellites east apart from astra 28.2e. i have not put any settings into the usals system. for example i click on thor and it is set up as longitude 0 and latitude 0. do you think this could be affecting why the sat does not go west?????

 

[rolfw]

Could be, the idea of USALS, is that it should be given your location, then given an accurate due South, then it should be able to find the satellites. If you don't give it the correct information, or no information at all, it will not work properly.

 

[Robbo]

hi there. i have still not got it sorted. what i done was i moved the satellite manually until i picked up thor. i got a reception on that and then clicked on usals and saw i was getting a signal and that i could pick up a signal for all of the satellites east apart from astra 28.2e. i have not put any settings into the usals system. for example i click on thor and it is set up as longitude 0 and latitude 0. do you think this could be affecting why the sat does not go west?????

Yes Mate, put in your longitude and latitude, i.e your co-ordinates into your receiver. As Rolf says, it won't work properly otherwise; it needs to
know where you are, to calculate how far to move and in what direction.
You can find your location here:-
_http://www.satsig.net/maps/lat-long-finder.htm

Click on the map and zoom in.

 

[ginger]

cheers lads i'll give it a bash on sunday