Wow tron that actually covers just about all of my questions.
Now Tell me if you can make any sense out of this.
I got 1 heck of a good signal, AND I used that nice little trick of pre-selecting a station from my true south sat for fine tuning etc.
It worked beautifully, Both my bars are nice and green and the bottom is at 85% when locked in on that particular station, the one Iceberg mentioned B4.
Now heres the wierd stuff.
I chose AMC-4, IA-5 and Galaxy-10r, simply because they have loads of channels. Problem is, the dish wont turn to any of them.
Now if I go to telstar12 it moves, and one of the ones at the end of the list makes the dish swing down almost all the way north.
But if i just randomly pick a sat or go through the list there is no movement even between radically opposing sats like 74 and 125.
If i start from the first sat (telstar12) then down to ia6 it moves, but if I go the other way nothing happens, same for basic viewing. Then sometimes it just starts working. I lock the sats with blind scan and front to back they work fine the first time through, but if i happen to backtrack to a previous sat nothing moves even if it moved while going down to the next 1 in line. What I end up with is just 1 sat to view after this happens. the green ok light is still on at the motor but no rotation if I go backwards. I can choose the manual setting and move it anywhere i want, but on auto it simply wont move.
Think maybe it's my Coolsat? Motor? or just me?
By the way, the reciever still freezes sometimes when I blind scan.
And yes my cables are tight. I wasted 2 hours the other day with a loose cable and learned THAT lesson real fast!
I can only choose about 5 or so at a time.
Aside from that, recieving channels is a breeze. I have locked in a load (about 300 or so) of viewable program channels, and can do it again at any time, and usually have to when trying to diagnose the motor problem.
In fact, right now I have 30 or so locked in after a system reset.
By the way, those 30 are coming from my TS setting at 93 deg IA-6.
Which is odd, because there are only 2 listed.
I swear I followed everything you guys told me to the letter.
I even loosened the motor and spun it 180 and started again just to be sure I had it locked in right.
And BINGO, I get it every time.
What you said about the dish alignment marks being slightly off was true too, mine was about 2 degrees after fine tuning.
I have checked and double checked my pole and its always dead on plumb.
Oh and also, when using the meter and doing a manual pan from east to west and vice versa I get a beep off and on through the entire arc, it speeds up as I approach TS.
This is good right?
Now Tell me if you can make any sense out of this.
I got 1 heck of a good signal, AND I used that nice little trick of pre-selecting a station from my true south sat for fine tuning etc.
It worked beautifully, Both my bars are nice and green and the bottom is at 85% when locked in on that particular station, the one Iceberg mentioned B4.
Now heres the wierd stuff.
I chose AMC-4, IA-5 and Galaxy-10r, simply because they have loads of channels. Problem is, the dish wont turn to any of them.
Now if I go to telstar12 it moves, and one of the ones at the end of the list makes the dish swing down almost all the way north.
But if i just randomly pick a sat or go through the list there is no movement even between radically opposing sats like 74 and 125.
If i start from the first sat (telstar12) then down to ia6 it moves, but if I go the other way nothing happens, same for basic viewing. Then sometimes it just starts working. I lock the sats with blind scan and front to back they work fine the first time through, but if i happen to backtrack to a previous sat nothing moves even if it moved while going down to the next 1 in line. What I end up with is just 1 sat to view after this happens. the green ok light is still on at the motor but no rotation if I go backwards. I can choose the manual setting and move it anywhere i want, but on auto it simply wont move.
Think maybe it's my Coolsat? Motor? or just me?
By the way, the reciever still freezes sometimes when I blind scan.
And yes my cables are tight. I wasted 2 hours the other day with a loose cable and learned THAT lesson real fast!
I can only choose about 5 or so at a time.
Aside from that, recieving channels is a breeze. I have locked in a load (about 300 or so) of viewable program channels, and can do it again at any time, and usually have to when trying to diagnose the motor problem.
In fact, right now I have 30 or so locked in after a system reset.
By the way, those 30 are coming from my TS setting at 93 deg IA-6.
Which is odd, because there are only 2 listed.
I swear I followed everything you guys told me to the letter.
I even loosened the motor and spun it 180 and started again just to be sure I had it locked in right.
And BINGO, I get it every time.
What you said about the dish alignment marks being slightly off was true too, mine was about 2 degrees after fine tuning.
I have checked and double checked my pole and its always dead on plumb.
Oh and also, when using the meter and doing a manual pan from east to west and vice versa I get a beep off and on through the entire arc, it speeds up as I approach TS.
This is good right?
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