Aiming *Choice Elliptical Dish

[ijourneaux]

I finally have all of my equipment a 205 reciever and and dual LNB *Choice elliptical dish.

For love nor money I can seem to get a signal.

Based on http://www.kusat.com/install/calculator2.php

for

Latitude = 44.5210, Longitude = -89.5345
Lat = 44 degrees, 31.3 minutes North
Long = 89 degrees, 32.1 minutes West ​

I should be pointed at 206.65 with 35.02 and skew of 105.3. Other website seem to give slightly different settings

I borrowed a satelite finder (that I have used when finding Dish Network satelites) but it doesn't light up (as if it isn't getting power from the reciever).

First thing, do the satelite finders work with the *choice receiver? If they are supposed to do I have something wrong with the LNB or the receiver? I tried all four of the outputs but got nothing on any of them.

If the satelite finder isn't supposed to work with the *Choice receiver, I can follow the instructions on the othe posts to aim it using the info on the aiming or diagnositc page.

Appreciate any help.

 

[Mr Tony]

numbers are off. Use this for numbers
http://www.global-cm.net/CAN/SC/point/USAangskew.html
Mike is pretty bang on with his numbers.

according to location, I used Wausau as reference and I get
34 elevation
209 azimuth
skew of 110

I wouldnt use the meter. Use the meter on the receiver. Select channel 284 and go
options 6-0-5 right arrow to dsiagnostic C
There will be a number in corner that says -1.0

when you hit a signal that number starts bouncing and will be a +
+5 is minimum
+7.5 or higher is great

 

[ijourneaux]

Thanks for the quick reply. I am heading back to the club so I will try the coordinates you listed.

 

[Mr Tony]

I know Mikes were damn near bang on here in Minneapolis when I hooked mine up

 

[ijourneaux]

No luck. But perhaps it isn't the coordinates.

As it stand right now, the only channel that can be tuned is 256 (and that comes up by default). I wasn't able to select 284 as you mentioned in your post. Maybe the reciever is in a wrong mode?

Some misc info from the diagnostic pages
Diagnostic A: indicates not in support mode
Diagnostic B: Passed
Diagnostic C: THe only negative number is -3 and it is located on the right side middle

On the tune satelite page the Provider ID is 0. Changing it to a non zero value brings up a found correct signal. But it doesn't seem to do anything beyond that.
The Satellite field is blank and the signal strength never changes from 9

 

[Mr Tony]

can you select 299?

and yes the -3.0 is the ebno number

 

[ijourneaux]

I was back at the club and turns out I had to do a factory reset. FOr some reason the receiver would not tune to anything other than 256. After the reste, I could get to 284, found the satelite, tuned to 299.

Everything is happy in central Wisconsin.

Well not quite. I bought the receiver from La Source in Quebec. It was thier last unit. They must have used it as a demo as it is still registered to them. *Choice would not assing the unit to me so I have to call the store I bought it at on Monday to resolve the issue.

 

[ijourneaux]

Forgot to say it in the previous post. Thanks for all of the assistance.

 

[Mr Tony]

ccol

I was going to mention to do a factory reset

Glad its (almost) working