The FTAdirect.com guys sent me here for my questions, though I must say the guy I talked to did everything but pull his hair out trying to help me.
That was in the beginning.
NOW I have it all set up and got everything going good yet... none of the fta channels I got were anything but dish, directv or other setup guides for DISH networks etc.
I work at a wholesales warehouse and we want to sell these things but setting up the demo is brain wracking when you get nothing viewable.
The very idea of getting all these fta stations from all over the world has us pretty excited. I have asked people I talk to in the store what they think and some seemed to understand the system at first. Problem is, not one of them bought their receiver for fta viewing. They use them for hacking pay TV and that just won't do for our store.
We already found a nice box that will cause us no problems in the future with the hacker types. Its not set up to recieve software hacks and thats exactly what we were looking for.
One customer said we wont sell as many that way, and I told him we don't need that type of customer anyway.
I spent way too much for all this stuff, somewhere around $600.00 compared to prices I found later which were much lower.
And I don't mind spending more if it will resolve our problem.
Ok so, i set my dish to true south as close as possible, I get a green signal on both bars in the 85 range on quality.
I have the coolsat pro 4000, a high quality rotor, a ( Invacom combo) 2100 something 4 way lnb, and a 4 way switch. Two lnb leads from the c and l connector on the lnb are hooked to the switch on lnb1 and lnb4, rx is going to the coax leading to my reciever. To reduce static i used the rca jacks on the back of my TV to hook up the reciever.
My question is, why am I recieving ALL non-program type signals and $ TV with no FTA?
I would love to view one of those canadian or british broadcast stations.
Well anything from europe would be nice too.
You know, Everyday TV like the foreigners view in their own living rooms.
Am I maybe aiming at the wrong satellite and just getting all the wrong signals?
I downloaded the satfinder program, bought a signal meter for final tweaking, and just got the switch today, mounted the reciever on the side of our steel building, aimed it south using a compass thats in a chevy truck, you know, one of those electronic ones.
My latitude is 30 deg my long is 93 deg, my zip is 70663, and my elevation is impossible to set on the dish itself since the bracket that came with the weingart is a close pole grabbing clamp type.I have maybe 1 inch up and down that I can move the dish for elevation, so im assuming elevation has to be set on the rotor itself. But instead of elevation I have a lat grid.
Given the fact that the pole on the rotor is set at an angle, I am assuming that the sat dish must use an arc when panning for satellite signals.(answered)
I wouldn't have dumped all this on you here but i didn't see a faq section to cover what i assume to you, must seem to be all basic questions.
(edit) I just found the faq, but answer anyway if you can, thanx.
BTW
HI Im Bob (aka) PaPPaPump
and I'm a newbie
lmao!
That was in the beginning.
NOW I have it all set up and got everything going good yet... none of the fta channels I got were anything but dish, directv or other setup guides for DISH networks etc.
I work at a wholesales warehouse and we want to sell these things but setting up the demo is brain wracking when you get nothing viewable.
The very idea of getting all these fta stations from all over the world has us pretty excited. I have asked people I talk to in the store what they think and some seemed to understand the system at first. Problem is, not one of them bought their receiver for fta viewing. They use them for hacking pay TV and that just won't do for our store.
We already found a nice box that will cause us no problems in the future with the hacker types. Its not set up to recieve software hacks and thats exactly what we were looking for.
One customer said we wont sell as many that way, and I told him we don't need that type of customer anyway.
I spent way too much for all this stuff, somewhere around $600.00 compared to prices I found later which were much lower.
And I don't mind spending more if it will resolve our problem.
Ok so, i set my dish to true south as close as possible, I get a green signal on both bars in the 85 range on quality.
I have the coolsat pro 4000, a high quality rotor, a ( Invacom combo) 2100 something 4 way lnb, and a 4 way switch. Two lnb leads from the c and l connector on the lnb are hooked to the switch on lnb1 and lnb4, rx is going to the coax leading to my reciever. To reduce static i used the rca jacks on the back of my TV to hook up the reciever.
My question is, why am I recieving ALL non-program type signals and $ TV with no FTA?
I would love to view one of those canadian or british broadcast stations.
Well anything from europe would be nice too.
You know, Everyday TV like the foreigners view in their own living rooms.
Am I maybe aiming at the wrong satellite and just getting all the wrong signals?
I downloaded the satfinder program, bought a signal meter for final tweaking, and just got the switch today, mounted the reciever on the side of our steel building, aimed it south using a compass thats in a chevy truck, you know, one of those electronic ones.
My latitude is 30 deg my long is 93 deg, my zip is 70663, and my elevation is impossible to set on the dish itself since the bracket that came with the weingart is a close pole grabbing clamp type.I have maybe 1 inch up and down that I can move the dish for elevation, so im assuming elevation has to be set on the rotor itself. But instead of elevation I have a lat grid.
Given the fact that the pole on the rotor is set at an angle, I am assuming that the sat dish must use an arc when panning for satellite signals.(answered)
I wouldn't have dumped all this on you here but i didn't see a faq section to cover what i assume to you, must seem to be all basic questions.
(edit) I just found the faq, but answer anyway if you can, thanx.
BTW
HI Im Bob (aka) PaPPaPump
and I'm a newbie
lmao!
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