Robert_W,
Let me answer the Galaxy 11 (C) question for you first. This is a C-band transmition you are refereing to with frequency around 5.000 ghz. At orbital position 91W you have a Cband broadcast, a KU linear broadcast and KU circular broadcast. One other note to make the new satellite at that location is now Galaxy 17 and replaced 11.
So look at your list of sats for 91W, do not pick any with (C), that stands for C-band. There should be another KU sat listed at that orbital location. The Invacom QPH-031 will not get any frequency below 11.700 gHZ. Check lyngsat.com for the channels, and transponder information for Galaxy 17 at 91W orbital position.
OK now on to the next questions. What you are supposed to do is set up the dish on the pole and have evrything referenced to zero on the motor. Then input your longitude and latitude in motor control and select USALs, then blue key I think or which ever is called drive to sat. Then the store position key. Then go out to your pole and turn the motor on the pole by hand to align with 91W. That is how it is supose to work in that order. If you did it this way even if 91 was 5 degrees off of your true south, you would still be aligned to the top of the arc. I would have to read over your post again, but think you may have done something out of order.
It does not matter even if you were pointed NORTH to begin with, once you enter your latitude and longitude and select a satellite position using USALs, the motor will rotate the motor tube to the correct orietation of the motor scale. It is up to you at this point to then manually postion the motor on the pole for correct azimuth, and tweak in the dish elevation as well.
Now one note to make and then I will explain some problems you might encounter. When you select go to reference, that is supose to drive the motor back to 0 on the motor scale.
Here is the problem with the Sonicview 360 Premeier that I have encountered; sometimes you select go to satellite, and it goes to reference. Sometimes you select go to reference and it will go to the satellite, sometimes it works but not for all sats selcted. Some times you store the sat position and it works, sometimes selecting store position erases other satellites, sometimes when you go to scan it will drive to a different satellite and scan that, sometimes it has a mind of its own and you never know what the hell this receiver will do next, sometimes it will stop scanning and delete all channels. I could go on forever with weird stuff this receiver does. AND THIS BE MY POINT HOW DO YOU TRUST THIS RECEVEIR TO ALIGN TO THE ARC IF USALs IS SO WEIRD!!!!!
By the way, if you select continuse and start move, the only way to stop is select stop. The incrimental move but (do not quote me) I believe for 1 = 1/10 degree 2 = 2/10 and so on and so forth.
Krisman was fighting USALs for sometime on this receiever, but he told me he got his system to work. Did he ever PM you with what he found to get it to work for him?
