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Question to technomate tm5402 m3 owners - max channel limit?
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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1075770" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>Thanks and a good point about the clamp bolts: I went down there this morning and progressively and evenly tightened up the nuts on the bolts holding the motor to the scaffold pole - surprisingly each took about 2-3 full turns or so before it became really "tight" again (any tighter seemed to risk stretching/snapping them, according to my "calibrated" arm); the bolts holding the dish to the motor arm were also not as tight as they could have been, so tightened them up as well.</p><p></p><p>Now seems to be tracking OK at the moment, and certainly went from 30W to lock onto a channel on 53E with little problem.OTOH, I have had to slightly adjust some of the sat azimuths in the menus because the nominal azimuth setting seems to correct at 30W, but as the dish then scans across the arc I've had to progressively add a tiny amount of "extra E" so that by the time it reaches 53E the max signal is at 53.7 (and, No, I haven't changed my nominal location longitude offset setting from what was concluded a few weeks ago because the "shift" is not consistent across the arc).</p><p></p><p></p><p>Don't remember that, but not as yet as that could disguise other issues (as above/before).</p><p></p><p>Anyway, thanks to [USER=193781]@william-1[/USER], the apparent channel limit issue (which was actually the transponder limit issue) is now resolved, and thanks to [USER=175144]@Channel Hopper[/USER] it seems that the tracking/"approach" issue might well also be resolved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1075770, member: 176704"] Thanks and a good point about the clamp bolts: I went down there this morning and progressively and evenly tightened up the nuts on the bolts holding the motor to the scaffold pole - surprisingly each took about 2-3 full turns or so before it became really "tight" again (any tighter seemed to risk stretching/snapping them, according to my "calibrated" arm); the bolts holding the dish to the motor arm were also not as tight as they could have been, so tightened them up as well. Now seems to be tracking OK at the moment, and certainly went from 30W to lock onto a channel on 53E with little problem.OTOH, I have had to slightly adjust some of the sat azimuths in the menus because the nominal azimuth setting seems to correct at 30W, but as the dish then scans across the arc I've had to progressively add a tiny amount of "extra E" so that by the time it reaches 53E the max signal is at 53.7 (and, No, I haven't changed my nominal location longitude offset setting from what was concluded a few weeks ago because the "shift" is not consistent across the arc). Don't remember that, but not as yet as that could disguise other issues (as above/before). Anyway, thanks to [USER=193781]@william-1[/USER], the apparent channel limit issue (which was actually the transponder limit issue) is now resolved, and thanks to [USER=175144]@Channel Hopper[/USER] it seems that the tracking/"approach" issue might well also be resolved. [/QUOTE]
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