Recent content by nikione

5m was intended as 5 meters .. and was just a figure of speech meaning that it's HUGE and for small poles it's troublesome to fix properly. About the actuator .. I've put too much stuff in the same post ... it wasn't intended to fix that problem but to have more flexibility in pointing to "any"...

Hi, Tried to have a look but couldn't find a post related. I am VERY new and inexperienced but I have managed to setup a 80cm "normal" round plain dish with a "low-noise" fortec LNB twin feed and a HH90. It is kind of working, apart for the HH90 having fittings made for 5m diamater poles...

Tnx Huevos, the main problem is that this motor doesn't have ANY manual commands. At this moment the only practical way to test it is to either buy a diseqc 1.2 capable receiver box or to buy a diseqc 1.2 motor controller

Thanks. I have checked the power specs of the card and of the motor and they are "compatible". Unfortunately I do not have a received I can test it with. The cable run I don't think would matter, it's about 10/15m top (RG58 ?) and there is no disturbances in regards to the LNB transmission...

Sorry to reply myself .. I checked and the 1.10 ver doesn't require any patching of the drivers (from 4.4.0 they are "fine"). Anyone else know of any typical problem .. or possible resolutions (see my orig post) ?

Hi all, Because of how nice the people in this forum are .. somehow I got more interested in Satellite stuff. I've bought off eBay a STAB HH 90 which looks like a nice quality rotor with DiseqC 1.2 anf USALS support. I have done the following: PC w/ SkyStar2 PCI v2.6c Latest original drivers...

The quality of the video feed is pretty good I suppose, so I don't think it's a "real" problem. I don't think the alignment is the problem. I am now (nearly) an expert in micro-adjustments. I spend sometimes 20min checking the alignment. I use both a normal signal meter and via PDA I connect to...

Hi, Following up just to solve the "mistery". I have used another dish which looked newer and is one of the standard small "oval" sky dishes which had a newer LNB. With this one I managed to get and lock on all the signals without problem. So apparently it probably was the LNB the problem ...

Will try to replace the LNB with a newer one from "skyware". For now I'm trying to avoid buying things... I for example get without problem: BBC Persian 10873 V 27500 3/4 and some more tps. Most of them have a 75% Q and 45% L .. is this normal ? Please remember that I couldn't get it any...

Ok tried to concentrate a bit ... I have checked the latest results and I get transpoders "found" from HB6/8/9.. which is better. BUT From HB9, apparently, only SOME of the transpoders have been found, 98% of which are "out of lock" while the signal strength is about 45% (never went higher...

Thank you very much for your support. I now think about the following: - The LNB being "old" .. at least meaning that it was installed when there was still analogue service, so might not be "universal". I find it strange that I couldn't find on the net a pic of an old sky installation ... - I...

Hi, BACKGROUND: I'm not real expert .. BUT I've been trying desperately to point a dish in order to receive HB9. Using a common signal meter and connecting via PDA (VNC) to the screen of my PC where I have a SkyStar2 and I had tuned on a particular transpoder (to also check the singnal...

Too late. Tomorrow morning I'm receiving the newly bought SkyStar 2 v2.6b Paid it 28£ .. hope it's not too much. It's ok if it has some limitations, as I'm a newbie I don't think I'm gonna be doing too many things right now. Also because I still have only 2 dishes with univeral LNB available...

Hence I really hope that a card such as this: Technisat Skystar 2 rev. 2.6b Is one of the "good" ones.

Thanks a lot guys ! That's exactly the info I was looking for. The blind scan is a particularly important aspect, especially if I get more handy and I get a motorised dish. I had already a look at that website, however I was hoping there was some more resources around, maybe showing all the...