One thing I played with last night in setting up new sats that worked pretty well so I thought I'd post it here.
Set your limits on the 4dtv. Currently mine are something like 4100 to 5400 (give or take).
Find G1, let it download channel maps, at least on mine, it put G1 at 5000.
Go to the web and get a sat chart and a channel listing.
G1 is at 133°.
Next is C4 at 135°. C4 has some analog FTA on it, so click in the menu that you want to program C4 next, set the tuner to TP9 which is QVC. start moving your dish until you find that channel. Peak the dish, peak skew and save C4.
Record the dish position.
Either do one more sat to the west or go one sat to the east of G1.
C3 at 131° has C-Span on 11, so that's a good one to target. Peak the dish & skew and save C3, record the dish position.
I don't know exactly what those position numbers mean on the receiver, BUT what you will find now that you have dish location information for 3 sats across the arc described by YOUR dish.
Each of those sats is 2° apart and you will have dish position information something like
G1: 5000
C4: 5025
C3: 4972
The thing to notice here is that (at least on my dish) the sats that are 2° apart require about 25 to 30 "counts" of dish movement to tune them. So now, let's say you have GB programmed and you want to add T4. GB is at 91° and T4 is at 89°, so start at the position for GB, move the dish so the count is lower by about 25 to 30 (or whatever YOUR system gives you) and you should be really close to the sat's position, now you can start bumping the dish east & west to try to pinpoint the location. Try both analog and digital channels as sometimes when I was setting up the sats, I had nothing on analog, but on digital I could see the "quality" rating go up even though "signal" never changed from 100.
Then you can see the DC light come on when the signal is "good enough" for a lock. Once I had that, at least I could see the "you don't have a subscription to XYZ" and then I knew I had the right sat based on the channel listing.
In summary, what this allows you to do is figure out how many dish movment "counts" your system takes to move the dish 2° across the arc. Since most of these sats are 2° apart, that gets you really close to the sat's location, instead of just blindly scanning back-n-forth across a huge range trying to find the sat by luck.
If anybody has any corrections, please let me know.
HTH
Paul...
Set your limits on the 4dtv. Currently mine are something like 4100 to 5400 (give or take).
Find G1, let it download channel maps, at least on mine, it put G1 at 5000.
Go to the web and get a sat chart and a channel listing.
G1 is at 133°.
Next is C4 at 135°. C4 has some analog FTA on it, so click in the menu that you want to program C4 next, set the tuner to TP9 which is QVC. start moving your dish until you find that channel. Peak the dish, peak skew and save C4.
Record the dish position.
Either do one more sat to the west or go one sat to the east of G1.
C3 at 131° has C-Span on 11, so that's a good one to target. Peak the dish & skew and save C3, record the dish position.
I don't know exactly what those position numbers mean on the receiver, BUT what you will find now that you have dish location information for 3 sats across the arc described by YOUR dish.
Each of those sats is 2° apart and you will have dish position information something like
G1: 5000
C4: 5025
C3: 4972
The thing to notice here is that (at least on my dish) the sats that are 2° apart require about 25 to 30 "counts" of dish movement to tune them. So now, let's say you have GB programmed and you want to add T4. GB is at 91° and T4 is at 89°, so start at the position for GB, move the dish so the count is lower by about 25 to 30 (or whatever YOUR system gives you) and you should be really close to the sat's position, now you can start bumping the dish east & west to try to pinpoint the location. Try both analog and digital channels as sometimes when I was setting up the sats, I had nothing on analog, but on digital I could see the "quality" rating go up even though "signal" never changed from 100.
Then you can see the DC light come on when the signal is "good enough" for a lock. Once I had that, at least I could see the "you don't have a subscription to XYZ" and then I knew I had the right sat based on the channel listing.
In summary, what this allows you to do is figure out how many dish movment "counts" your system takes to move the dish 2° across the arc. Since most of these sats are 2° apart, that gets you really close to the sat's location, instead of just blindly scanning back-n-forth across a huge range trying to find the sat by luck.
If anybody has any corrections, please let me know.
HTH
Paul...
