Radar,
No i did not get a chance to do a straight connection as it has been raining here.When i have the azbox connected to the switch thru one of the ports that doesn't control the motor (#2,#3,#4) the receiver switches and i get both linear/circular sats but when it runs thru port #1 (motor control) i lose just the quality on the linear sat's .When i am swapping cables everything is begin done inside the house so nothing is being changed at the dish/switch.
Thanks
Panek,
I do see your dilemna here. This is an unusual problem.
When your weather clears, let's try running the cable direct to the motor and then on to the LNBF without the switch. I don't know if this will tell us anything, but we need to rule it out. Obviously, something is blocking the signal from the LINEAR sats here.
If that works well, then the next step I would like you to try is to set everything back up like you had it originally (when everything was working well) and then, instead of swapping the cables inside the house, just move the motor from the circuit where the Pansat controls it and put it in the circuit where the AZBox controls it. Don't move any other cabling other than what is required to move the motor from port 1 to port 2.
I am scratching my head on this one, Panek. It is a little strange. The Pansat works fine in its role here, but when you put the AZBox in that role, it loses the LINEAR sat signals. Just from a gut feeling, I am wondering if your AZBox is driving your motor to the accurate position for all the linear sats.
You do understand that you can be off quite a ways from a circular satellite's position and still pick up the signal. But, on the linear sats, 0.2 degrees might kill it.
It is possible that your dish and motor are not truly aligned to the arc. I can see this happening very easily as it would not take much of an offset to kill your signal from the linear sats.
What motor control system are you using (USALS or DiSEqC 1.2)? Are you using the same system on both recievers?
If your dish and motor are perfectly aligned, then any receiver with true USALS that you connect to the motor should be right on the mark for all sats. But, you are going to have to verify the site coordinates in the USALS menu. These coordinates are operator entered and if there is a small error, it will throw the dish alignment off.
There are many sources of error here, and we need to reduce the possibilities by checking each one, one at a time.
To make it short and sweet, all your electrical components appear to be operating fine, including the switch. The problem stems from one or two sources. Either the dish if not aligned perfectly or the parameters for the motor control are slightly in error (or a combination of both).
Using your AZBox, select one good satellite (like 97.0°W) and select DiSEqC 1.2 motor control and step your motor a few tenths of a degree west or east and monitor your signal and quality levels on a TP that is known to be always active and always strong.
Let us know what you determine from experimenting with the suggestions I presented here. When you have acquoired the results, please inform us and we will proceed as necessary.
RADAR
