Help With Setup/true South Sat

[catoer]

Seems there a few birds at my True South Location of 119W degrees. (Echostar and a couple others). Could someone please tell me which bird, Tp and SR I should aim for to ensure my True South is dialed in correctly?

Location: Lemoore, CA 93245

Equip: Fortec Mercury II
Invacom QPH-031
Fortec 90 cm dish
STAB HH-90 motor

 

[brentb636]

Well, I think it ought to be easy, so use Echostar 7, with your Invacom circular polarity port.
tp 12486 V
SR 20000
FEC 5/6

Once you've optimized quality on this bird, I'd use USALS to move to 123W, Galaxy 10R, using the linear lnb in your invacom, and see if you can get a quality signal, then try to improve on it, by slight adjustments.
tp 11800 V
SR 26660
FEC 3/4

If those two guys work out for you, head across the sky a little to 97W, IA-5. If you hit that as well, I'd bet you can get them all.

Be gentle now.

 

[techboss]

When pointing to your TS of 119 on your circular LNB, try to make sure you have very strong signal. Circular Signal is more forgiving than linear.

 

[catoer]

Thanks for the assistance. Please bear with me as I am a newbie but I have a question regarding the TP mentioned above...

If I am using the Circular port, how can the TP be 12486 Vertical on Echostar 7?

Will my Mercury II automatically detect circular TP's?

 

[techboss]

Hi catoer,

Vertical (V) or Horizontal (H) polarity for linear feeds, or on Right (R) and Left (L) polarity for circular feeds.

On the receiver V = R and H = L

Hope this helps.

Regards

 

[catoer]

Thanks for all the help. Looks like I have it up and running with good signal throughout my arc. Having a couple issues with my Mercury II though:I can't seem to get the AC-3 output from my Mercury II to function. Could be a setting but I think I have tried everything. I have tried the following: Tuned to a channel broadcasting AC-3 (G10R), New Optical Cable, Fiddled with AC-3 Capable Receiver Settings (Denon AVR-2800), Different Optical In Port on my AC-3 Receiver, Mercury II settings (volume obviously). I have never had a problem with my receiver decoding any other source, either optical or coaxial for Dolby Digital or DTS. The Denon receiver lock light comes on indicating there is a bitstream present from the Mercury II but no audio is present. PCM bitstreams are all good. On a different note, my video settings don't seem to have any effect on the component video output. I can select 4:3 Letterbox or 16:9 and it stays exactly the same. I have my Mercury II connected to my Sony HDTV via component video.Thanks again for all the assistance.

 

[voomvoom]

It must be something with the Mercury II? On my Denon AVR 3805, I use the Surround setting Stereo (of the 3, Standard, 5CH/7CH Stereo, DSP Simulation). It works on either of my Pansat 3500s and my Coolsat 5000. So, my conclusion is, something must be up with the Mercury II.

Al

 

[voomvoom]

Another thing, I just remembered, although it may not apply to you or the Mercury II, is that at times, the AC-3 audio don't/won't come in. With the Pansat more than the Coolsat, but with either I have to go up or down (off the AC-3 channel) and back to get the sound to work, sometimes several times to get it to come in. It don't happen often, but it does happen. I have even re-booted to try to get it to work. I think it's more my impatience than anything else. Sometimes, digital channels just need a little time to get there act together, although a full minute is stretching it somewhat.
Maybe you can try to channel off the AC-3 channel and go back and see if it will work. But, don't get your hopes to high, it's just an experiment?

Al