Recent content by alterego

When you switch on your audio system, but don't put any music on, you can maybe hear a very faint hiss in the loudspeakers. Its level will depend on how good the hifi system is. The lower the better. Same applies to the amplifier inside the lnb, and the db figure represents the 'noise'...

"And if it works for you, that is the most important. Hopefully you will have it on the arc soon!" Mine is on the arc, it's bronking we are trying to help! He seems to have gone a bit quiet: I hope he isn't up there, frozen to his ladder...

"wouldn't you simply hear the station comin on if you set the volume loud on your speakers?" Yes, but the nice thing about these inbuilt audible strength monitors is that you can tell how strong the signal is, and thus fine adjust the dish, without having to watch the display. They change in...

"There is no need for a sat meter, you can do it either with a baby phone or with someone standing next to the TV and teling you what happens. I have never had a meter and still always managed to set up the dish." The problem comes if there's only you and no one to watch the signal ! That's...

There's another plugin that should help you find satellites without a satellite meter. Download and install it into progdvb, then start it from Plugins/Fastsatfinder. It will prompt you to choose the satellite, then the transponder. Choose 1132500 on thor. As well as showing the signal strength...

Lancelot, that was 2mins before horizontal hail. Bronking, note how the dish on mine is almost parallel to the motor tube.

Here's my dish, pointed at Thor:

Your dish looks way too high to me.If the motor is centralised, compare it to a noearby sky dish, should be looking into the sky at the same sort of angle.

Forget setup4PC. It's an application that is autoinstalled with the rest of the technisat stuff and is for the original use of the SS2, ie as a satellite modem, which then appears as another network connection. It's nothing to do with Progdvb and you don't make use of it. Progdvb and the diseqc...

"i took out skynet.sys in windows drivers dir and put in skynetu.sys" If you have the USB version of the Skystar 2, then you should use skynetu.sys. If you have the Pci version of the Skystar 2 then you should use skynet.sys. Either way, if you are using the Mibi SS2diseqc, then you must use...

Deleted this post since I see you're using a different Diseqc plugin than the Mibi one for the Skystar 2 that I have used, so my comments were invalid!

And the transponder that you're pointed at is only putting about 100Watts out, if you're lucky! So your dish is looking at a light bulb 20 thousand miles away. It never ceases astonishing me that it all works....

The best method I found was from the stickies. First calculate the real azimuth of 1W from your location. ( I used the excellent free prog from http://www.al-soft.com/saa/satinfo.shtml, For me it's 2.86E). Zero the motor once you have the pole vertical, then drive the motor from the receiver to...

I tried this this morning. Couldn't find it with my SS2/Progdvb, but my Comag SL65 has found it at 92% signal strength and 67% quality. I've been trying to find the thread I was looking at earlier, which talked about this, but I can't. This is using a Sky region 2 dish, with a Moteck motor...

I can see 11615 on Hispasat, but only when I set the polarisation to vertical!. This may be something to do with my use of the original Sky Raven LNB with its inbuilt skew, on the dish. I have an order in for an LNB with zero skew, and it will be interesting to see if this makes a difference in...