:rant:
Turned on the MercuryII yesterday and came up with "No Signal" on 97°W. I went to the back of the house to look out the window and the dish looked like it was pointed toward 123°. So I decided to try moving it, selected 101°, it moved a little like it should, but it was still nowhere near where it was supposed to be. I then went and moved it to 83° and it still was off. So I go to 74°, my true south sat, push "go to 0" and start reprogramming in my sats. Got most everything with anything on them back in as far as 101°, was back on 97° when I shut down last night and went to bed. This morning I turn it on, again "No Signal". I look and it's off again just like the day before. So to avoid going back and forth from the front to the back of the house, I move the receiver to the back room where I can see the dish through the window, and start in again reprogramming. This time I do all the sats, and am on 101° when I turn it off. So after supper I move the receiver back to the living room, turn it on and "No Signal". I go look, the dish is too far west again. I move it to 74° and it goes all the way east to the limit. I try to send it to 72°, it doesn't move. I select 74°, do the "Go to 0" which it does fine, go out and push the reset button a couple times just for good measure, come back in, try going between 72° and 74° and end up all the way east again. I'm about at the end of my rope with this. I have always used Diseqc 1.2 to run the motor as USALS was off somewhat as others have noted here and it has worked great until yesterday. Today when reprogramming, I would watch to see where the dish would stop when moving to the next sat, (I started at 72° and moved west) and if it went way past, I would switch to USALS which would get it back close to where it should be, then back to Diseqc to fine tune it in and then hit store. It was west on everything but 125° and 129° and they swung it way back east, but not to the limit. I did away with 129° as there is nothing there, and did redo 125°, although I don't watch it as we have 3 PBS OTA here. I rarely go past 101°, and then only to see if there is anything new on 123°.
I guess what I really want to know is, is it my receiver or my motor?
And on another note, this "time out" thing on the new board is the only thing that REALLY irks me. I had to sign in again to preview this post! :rant:
Has no one else noticed this? If you are away for any length of time you have to sign in again.
Turned on the MercuryII yesterday and came up with "No Signal" on 97°W. I went to the back of the house to look out the window and the dish looked like it was pointed toward 123°. So I decided to try moving it, selected 101°, it moved a little like it should, but it was still nowhere near where it was supposed to be. I then went and moved it to 83° and it still was off. So I go to 74°, my true south sat, push "go to 0" and start reprogramming in my sats. Got most everything with anything on them back in as far as 101°, was back on 97° when I shut down last night and went to bed. This morning I turn it on, again "No Signal". I look and it's off again just like the day before. So to avoid going back and forth from the front to the back of the house, I move the receiver to the back room where I can see the dish through the window, and start in again reprogramming. This time I do all the sats, and am on 101° when I turn it off. So after supper I move the receiver back to the living room, turn it on and "No Signal". I go look, the dish is too far west again. I move it to 74° and it goes all the way east to the limit. I try to send it to 72°, it doesn't move. I select 74°, do the "Go to 0" which it does fine, go out and push the reset button a couple times just for good measure, come back in, try going between 72° and 74° and end up all the way east again. I'm about at the end of my rope with this. I have always used Diseqc 1.2 to run the motor as USALS was off somewhat as others have noted here and it has worked great until yesterday. Today when reprogramming, I would watch to see where the dish would stop when moving to the next sat, (I started at 72° and moved west) and if it went way past, I would switch to USALS which would get it back close to where it should be, then back to Diseqc to fine tune it in and then hit store. It was west on everything but 125° and 129° and they swung it way back east, but not to the limit. I did away with 129° as there is nothing there, and did redo 125°, although I don't watch it as we have 3 PBS OTA here. I rarely go past 101°, and then only to see if there is anything new on 123°.
I guess what I really want to know is, is it my receiver or my motor?
And on another note, this "time out" thing on the new board is the only thing that REALLY irks me. I had to sign in again to preview this post! :rant:
Has no one else noticed this? If you are away for any length of time you have to sign in again.
