hacksawbob
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Scuse the long post but I'm trying to get this straight in my head.
setup: relook 400s cryptik HH motorsied, 1M Orbital dish, experience: nil!
Right heres the story, Got it all set up, first problem, holding the spirit level against the pole inotice there is some movement of the level against the pole, ie the pole is'nt straight? anyway not to be detered I mount the motor, and the dish and check the motor bracket for level just forward of the the angle where it fits to the pole, I've get this bang on horizontal and vert, isn't that a better test than measuring the pole anyway?
So I put the signal detector in line between motor and receiver start having a mess with the relook just to get an idea of the menus etc, find the diseq1.2 menus and start having a play with the motor, as the dish is moving I can hear the sat sigs coming and going . All good. So I set the dish to due South to start searching in earnest, sadly the coax flylead that is connecting the sig detector pulls out and it drops, balls! Anyway, retreived uncracked, but this is where my problems start. when I plug it back in it just beeps at me every second or so. So I reset the box and all seems fine till I try to move the motor then the detector starts beeping again, I notice the motor is making a sound with each beep too. So I decide that actually between motor and LNB is a better place for the sig detector, so its moved, but now no satellites are being detected at all, even on a full scan West to East. Also tried without the sig detector and just using the reciever level and quality meter I cant see anything turning up. Ive checked true south on google Earth, there is a church tower about 5 miles away which I'm sighting on.
For my position I'm using 53.5N and 2.5W
a few Q's
1 the Cryptik mount is usals capable, do I set the dish to true south and then just enter the lat long and the sat and let the dish point to where it thinks it should be and then I fine tune?
2. If I'm using usals do I need to use diseq 1.2 aswell?
3. I have set the cryptik mount to 53.5 but the sat dish bracket has its own scale for elevation what do I set this to? I thought zero as elevation has already been set on the motor, but it wont go down below about 10 degrees. on www.satsig.com the calculator says I need a dish elevation of 28.75. is this what I need to set on the black dish mount scale?
Ive checked cables for continuity with a meter. Motor is working fine could the LNB have gone 'bad'? I have the receiver set up to 1 LNB (2 are possible) and to loop through as per the instructions with the coax connector rond the back
thanks for any help.
setup: relook 400s cryptik HH motorsied, 1M Orbital dish, experience: nil!
Right heres the story, Got it all set up, first problem, holding the spirit level against the pole inotice there is some movement of the level against the pole, ie the pole is'nt straight? anyway not to be detered I mount the motor, and the dish and check the motor bracket for level just forward of the the angle where it fits to the pole, I've get this bang on horizontal and vert, isn't that a better test than measuring the pole anyway?
So I put the signal detector in line between motor and receiver start having a mess with the relook just to get an idea of the menus etc, find the diseq1.2 menus and start having a play with the motor, as the dish is moving I can hear the sat sigs coming and going . All good. So I set the dish to due South to start searching in earnest, sadly the coax flylead that is connecting the sig detector pulls out and it drops, balls! Anyway, retreived uncracked, but this is where my problems start. when I plug it back in it just beeps at me every second or so. So I reset the box and all seems fine till I try to move the motor then the detector starts beeping again, I notice the motor is making a sound with each beep too. So I decide that actually between motor and LNB is a better place for the sig detector, so its moved, but now no satellites are being detected at all, even on a full scan West to East. Also tried without the sig detector and just using the reciever level and quality meter I cant see anything turning up. Ive checked true south on google Earth, there is a church tower about 5 miles away which I'm sighting on.
For my position I'm using 53.5N and 2.5W
a few Q's
1 the Cryptik mount is usals capable, do I set the dish to true south and then just enter the lat long and the sat and let the dish point to where it thinks it should be and then I fine tune?
2. If I'm using usals do I need to use diseq 1.2 aswell?
3. I have set the cryptik mount to 53.5 but the sat dish bracket has its own scale for elevation what do I set this to? I thought zero as elevation has already been set on the motor, but it wont go down below about 10 degrees. on www.satsig.com the calculator says I need a dish elevation of 28.75. is this what I need to set on the black dish mount scale?
Ive checked cables for continuity with a meter. Motor is working fine could the LNB have gone 'bad'? I have the receiver set up to 1 LNB (2 are possible) and to loop through as per the instructions with the coax connector rond the back
thanks for any help.