I recently moved into a house with a dish 500, a directtv slimline, and a
third small directtv dish. I have located a primestar dish on a boarded
up property and am attempting to get in contact with the owner
to see if I can have it. I also have found (at least) one person willing to
give me a large mesh dish. In the mean time, I have purchased a
coolsat 6000 and a visionsat iv-200 and have a TON of questions.
As they should be already aimed correctly, I thought that I would start
with the three dishes I already have. I have determined that I should
be able to get NASA and ANGEL TV from my dish 500, but can I get anything
from either of my directTV dishes?
The slimline has 3 horns and 4 wires, the dish 500 2 horns and 2 wires and
the other directtv, 1 horn and 1 wire. I assume that there is a possibility
that one of the wires on the slimline is not connected. Is it always just one
wire per horn?
What is the purpose of multiple horns? Do you need one
horn per TV or do they actually pick up different satellites?
I hooked up the 4 wires from my slimline into the diseqc that came with the
coolsat and connected it to the coolsat.
I went into the settings and found where I needed to enable the diseqc.
The disqec I got from the visionsat shows diseqc 2.0 and the one I got with
the coolsat shows diseqc 1.2, unfortunately my coolsat 6000 only shows
1.o or 1.0/1.1. I decided to choose 1.0/1.1 and 2 new menu items show up
asking me how many are committed and uncommitted.
What does that mean? Committed gives me 1-4. uncommitted lets me go
all the way up to 16 for some reason. What is committed/uncommitted?
A search on the forum for 'committed' drew a blank.
I set committed to 3, went into blind scan and it asked me to select which
satellites to scan. I thought the purpose of the blind scan was to scan
for unknown satellites. Why do I have to choose the satellite? How do I
scan for an unknown satellite? As my dish is currently a fixed dish, it seems
weird that I need to specify a satellite at all.
Does the blindscan automatically scan all 4 diseqc ports? How do I
specify which diseqc to scan?
I selected ALL of the satellites and clicked on scan and let it run for a LONG
time and it said it found 120 tv and 84 radio stations but it never return
so I finally hit exit. Is it suppose to eventually exit or does it just continue
to loop? If it does exit, how long does it generally take?
After exiting, the blind scan, obviously most of the channels it found are
scrambled, is there an automated way of hiding all the scrambled channels
so that I can see if I found any unencrypted ones?
Oh, and one additional newbie question for now, why the southern sky,
I assume it is because of geosync orbit. Are there any satellites that are
not south and/or not geosync?
third small directtv dish. I have located a primestar dish on a boarded
up property and am attempting to get in contact with the owner
to see if I can have it. I also have found (at least) one person willing to
give me a large mesh dish. In the mean time, I have purchased a
coolsat 6000 and a visionsat iv-200 and have a TON of questions.
As they should be already aimed correctly, I thought that I would start
with the three dishes I already have. I have determined that I should
be able to get NASA and ANGEL TV from my dish 500, but can I get anything
from either of my directTV dishes?
The slimline has 3 horns and 4 wires, the dish 500 2 horns and 2 wires and
the other directtv, 1 horn and 1 wire. I assume that there is a possibility
that one of the wires on the slimline is not connected. Is it always just one
wire per horn?
What is the purpose of multiple horns? Do you need one
horn per TV or do they actually pick up different satellites?
I hooked up the 4 wires from my slimline into the diseqc that came with the
coolsat and connected it to the coolsat.
I went into the settings and found where I needed to enable the diseqc.
The disqec I got from the visionsat shows diseqc 2.0 and the one I got with
the coolsat shows diseqc 1.2, unfortunately my coolsat 6000 only shows
1.o or 1.0/1.1. I decided to choose 1.0/1.1 and 2 new menu items show up
asking me how many are committed and uncommitted.
What does that mean? Committed gives me 1-4. uncommitted lets me go
all the way up to 16 for some reason. What is committed/uncommitted?
A search on the forum for 'committed' drew a blank.
I set committed to 3, went into blind scan and it asked me to select which
satellites to scan. I thought the purpose of the blind scan was to scan
for unknown satellites. Why do I have to choose the satellite? How do I
scan for an unknown satellite? As my dish is currently a fixed dish, it seems
weird that I need to specify a satellite at all.
Does the blindscan automatically scan all 4 diseqc ports? How do I
specify which diseqc to scan?
I selected ALL of the satellites and clicked on scan and let it run for a LONG
time and it said it found 120 tv and 84 radio stations but it never return
so I finally hit exit. Is it suppose to eventually exit or does it just continue
to loop? If it does exit, how long does it generally take?
After exiting, the blind scan, obviously most of the channels it found are
scrambled, is there an automated way of hiding all the scrambled channels
so that I can see if I found any unencrypted ones?
Oh, and one additional newbie question for now, why the southern sky,
I assume it is because of geosync orbit. Are there any satellites that are
not south and/or not geosync?
