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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
Set up my motorised dish
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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1034527" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>Whilst I don't have any info on how to get a recent sats & transponders list for your receiver, take a look at William-1's recent (7th Dec 2017) list of strongest transponders on the sats from 53E to 45W <a href="https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/strongest-transponders.169807/#post-1033625" target="_blank">here</a>, and then look at the receiver l and make sure that each of those sats & transponders is listed in it, or that you add these to it as detailed in the manual.</p><p></p><p>After you have done that, delete <u>most</u> of the <u><strong>other </strong></u>transponders on each of those sats (otherwise the receiver may run out of memory quite soon), and then you can (starting with Thor) set the motor & dish up reasonably accurately to get a few of the sats either side of Thor by setting the receiver to the strongest transponder on each one - once you have done that then the dish should track fairly accurately across the rest of the arc - but you will probably still have to "tweak" the motor bracket and dish bracket settings a little (do that GENTLY).</p><p></p><p>Finally, assuming your receiver has a "blind search" option (which ignores the already-loaded transponder lists) then use that to look for the currently active transponders and channels on each satellite you have "found" - takes a long time, but should get you pretty up-to-date lists on most of them. OTOH, as I mentioned above, you may find that the large number of transponders and channels now broadcasting may rapidly fill the receiver memory right up. <em>(Modern receivers have much larger memories than older ones, and so that's less of a problem - HINT!)</em></p><p></p><p>In which case, again, delete most of the channels on each sat and,<em> if you can,</em> rerun the blind searches but tell the receiver to o<em>nly </em>look for <strong>free to air</strong> channels - in which case it should then ignore all the encrypted channels, which will make the newly stored lists much shorter (especially for sat positions like 13/16/19 & 28E where there are very large numbers of encrypted channels!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1034527, member: 176704"] Whilst I don't have any info on how to get a recent sats & transponders list for your receiver, take a look at William-1's recent (7th Dec 2017) list of strongest transponders on the sats from 53E to 45W [URL='https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/strongest-transponders.169807/#post-1033625']here[/URL], and then look at the receiver l and make sure that each of those sats & transponders is listed in it, or that you add these to it as detailed in the manual. After you have done that, delete [U]most[/U] of the [U][B]other [/B][/U]transponders on each of those sats (otherwise the receiver may run out of memory quite soon), and then you can (starting with Thor) set the motor & dish up reasonably accurately to get a few of the sats either side of Thor by setting the receiver to the strongest transponder on each one - once you have done that then the dish should track fairly accurately across the rest of the arc - but you will probably still have to "tweak" the motor bracket and dish bracket settings a little (do that GENTLY). Finally, assuming your receiver has a "blind search" option (which ignores the already-loaded transponder lists) then use that to look for the currently active transponders and channels on each satellite you have "found" - takes a long time, but should get you pretty up-to-date lists on most of them. OTOH, as I mentioned above, you may find that the large number of transponders and channels now broadcasting may rapidly fill the receiver memory right up. [I](Modern receivers have much larger memories than older ones, and so that's less of a problem - HINT!)[/I] In which case, again, delete most of the channels on each sat and,[I] if you can,[/I] rerun the blind searches but tell the receiver to o[I]nly [/I]look for [B]free to air[/B] channels - in which case it should then ignore all the encrypted channels, which will make the newly stored lists much shorter (especially for sat positions like 13/16/19 & 28E where there are very large numbers of encrypted channels!). [/QUOTE]
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