I just received my *C DSR315 & DSR505 this past Thursday and spent Saturday morning setting up my dish.
It took me about 30 mins to take down my old system (DISH500 dp for my BEV 3100) and make all of the necessary connections on 2 TVs. It took me about 2 hrs of dinking around trying to get a signal before I realized I read my compass wrong.
I was looking at 204-210 instead of 214-220! Once I found my error, I had +9.2, 76 strength, and 80% on the meter within 30 mins. I'm going to leave it at that for now and if I get ambitious, I'll tweak it a little more. I don't know if I'll attain Icebergs 12+.
To set my dish, I put it on the Diag C screen and made the necessary adjustments until I reached about +7.5. I then put it on the screen with the meter (OPT-6-3-1), opened the window and listened while I made the finer adjustments. On the lower end of the scale, the beeps are "spaced" longer apart. As you get better signal quality, the beep spacing is shorter until 75%, where it becomes a constant beep.
Since I'm a first time *C customer and I've been told that nothing can be seen until the receiver takes a hit, I thought I'd pass this on: while DSR315 shows "Acquiring signal please wait...", the DSR505 actually shows the preview information on channel 299. Very helpful. Also, Guide, Browse, and Info all work, you just get a message saying that the service is unavailable. I was to pre-configure my favourite channels. (I can pre-configure the channels on the 315 as well, but only the channel numbers--not the channel
names or descriptions--show up.) The correct time has not been passed to the 505, yet. I expect that to happen when it gets hit on Monday.
The 315 remote is a 5-in-1 (TV, SAT, VCR, AUX, DVD) but the 505 looks the same but has a DVR button in place of the DVD (probably for the 515 or higher). I'm not sure if this is programmable or not. (*C says to go to the website for more info, which I obviously have not done yet.)
My only question. How can you verify the signal and switching to both sats? I liked that feature with BEV's setup. Maybe I just cannot find it.
It took me about 30 mins to take down my old system (DISH500 dp for my BEV 3100) and make all of the necessary connections on 2 TVs. It took me about 2 hrs of dinking around trying to get a signal before I realized I read my compass wrong.
I was looking at 204-210 instead of 214-220! Once I found my error, I had +9.2, 76 strength, and 80% on the meter within 30 mins. I'm going to leave it at that for now and if I get ambitious, I'll tweak it a little more. I don't know if I'll attain Icebergs 12+. To set my dish, I put it on the Diag C screen and made the necessary adjustments until I reached about +7.5. I then put it on the screen with the meter (OPT-6-3-1), opened the window and listened while I made the finer adjustments. On the lower end of the scale, the beeps are "spaced" longer apart. As you get better signal quality, the beep spacing is shorter until 75%, where it becomes a constant beep.
Since I'm a first time *C customer and I've been told that nothing can be seen until the receiver takes a hit, I thought I'd pass this on: while DSR315 shows "Acquiring signal please wait...", the DSR505 actually shows the preview information on channel 299. Very helpful. Also, Guide, Browse, and Info all work, you just get a message saying that the service is unavailable. I was to pre-configure my favourite channels. (I can pre-configure the channels on the 315 as well, but only the channel numbers--not the channel
names or descriptions--show up.) The correct time has not been passed to the 505, yet. I expect that to happen when it gets hit on Monday.
The 315 remote is a 5-in-1 (TV, SAT, VCR, AUX, DVD) but the 505 looks the same but has a DVR button in place of the DVD (probably for the 515 or higher). I'm not sure if this is programmable or not. (*C says to go to the website for more info, which I obviously have not done yet.)
My only question. How can you verify the signal and switching to both sats? I liked that feature with BEV's setup. Maybe I just cannot find it.
