Picked up an analog receiver tonight

[Shawn95GT]

For $15 i figured it was worth a shot. The box is a HTS tracker Premier System 20. I slaved it to the CoolSat and was playing with how I was going to set H/V on the ASC421 since I haven't been able to scan in anything DVB.

What I'm doing for now is moving the dish via the motor settings menu and setting the polarity via the transponder that I select.

I've found that my H and V seem to be backwards as compared to Lyngsat. I choose a H transponder on the coolsat and I'm able to tune V channels on the analog tuner and vice versa.

I aligned the zero position on the ASC421 straight up - did I goof up on that?

Anyone have any info on this reciever? As far as I can tell it's C-band only and I probably need a remote to do much of anything with it. The banner at the top says 'GALAXY 1' So I was shooting for G1R. I managed to pick up a few channels on AMC10 in the process .

The picture is pretty snowy with my baby Primestar but getting any picture at all is promising to me .

My ASC421 is FAR from optimized on my dish. I have it strapped next to my Ku LNB 'Iceberg DSS style' - lol.

Thanks in advance for any input you can give!

 

[dishMIKE]

That's great Shawn! I'm really looking forward to hear your experiences with the ASC421 and the analog receiver. Mike

 

[Shawn95GT]

It's kind of annoying because the Coolsat seems to set the polarity however it feels like. Sometimes V on the Coolsat gets me V on the analog... Sometimes it gives me H. It's kind of a crapshoot.

Anyways what I was able to see tonight:

G12 - TBN
AMC10 - QVC, HSN, CSPAN2 - QVC was MUCH clearer than the others.
IA13 - Jewelry TV - I found this one accidently - lol.

It seems that the channel numbers on this reciever correspond to the transponder numbers on Lyngsat. If this is the case then it doesn't really matter which sat it's set on so long as I can control the polarity with another reciever . It might need the polarity set to what it expects to work 100% but I'm hapy so far. All of the pictures were snowy but I was suprised to see anything at all. It's all in fun .

Thanks Cascade & PSB for the motivation to even try for C-band.

Shawn

 

[derdude]

You may should be able to set the polarity per transponder. You should be able to make any transponder the polarity that you want. Adjust it to the correct polarity and see if you can save it. I know on the receivers I have had I was able to do that.

For $15 i figured it was worth a shot. The box is a HTS tracker Premier System 20. I slaved it to the CoolSat and was playing with how I was going to set H/V on the ASC421 since I haven't been able to scan in anything DVB.

What I'm doing for now is moving the dish via the motor settings menu and setting the polarity via the transponder that I select.

I've found that my H and V seem to be backwards as compared to Lyngsat. I choose a H transponder on the coolsat and I'm able to tune V channels on the analog tuner and vice versa.

I aligned the zero position on the ASC421 straight up - did I goof up on that?

Anyone have any info on this reciever? As far as I can tell it's C-band only and I probably need a remote to do much of anything with it. The banner at the top says 'GALAXY 1' So I was shooting for G1R. I managed to pick up a few channels on AMC10 in the process .

The picture is pretty snowy with my baby Primestar but getting any picture at all is promising to me .

My ASC421 is FAR from optimized on my dish. I have it strapped next to my Ku LNB 'Iceberg DSS style' - lol.

Thanks in advance for any input you can give!

 

[Tron]

Shawn, do you have a DC block between the analog receiver and the Coolsat? If not, voltage from the analog receiver might be confusing LNB polarity switching.

I will have to do the same this week when I slave my Digicipher II receiver which just came in to my Pansat. It's a DCR-4200, and has C/H and K/V inputs.

 

[Shawn95GT]

If I had the remote I'm sure I'd have more options .

Here are some pics from AMC10:

 

[Shawn95GT]

Shawn, do you have a DC block between the analog receiver and the Coolsat? If not, voltage from the analog receiver might be confusing LNB polarity switching.

I will have to do the same this week when I slave my Digicipher II receiver which just came in to my Pansat. It's a DCR-4200, and has C/H and K/V inputs.

I don't. I'm bet you are right. I'll have to pick one up.

Thanks! I forgot about that.

On a side note I figured out that my C LNBF is 5° W of center... so if I'm shooting for IA-13 at 121 I USALS to 126W and it's pretty much dead on .

Shawn

 

[Tron]

I'm going to Radio Shack (hopefully tomorrow if I get time) to pick up a couple of them. They have them for $2.99 each. My Digicipher II won't control a voltage-controlled polarity switching LNBF, so I'll have to use my Pansat 2700 for that.

 

[Shawn95GT]

Need a Remote for that dirt cheaqp analog reciever?

I found a deal I HAD to share with you all:

http://www.satelliteguys.us/showpost.php?p=569375&postcount=3

Now I have a remote for my HTS System 20 !

 

[Shawn95GT]

Now that I've got a remote I managed to figure out that this reciever does Ku too. I'm not 100% sure how I switched sats but I installed a sat that was Ku (Spacenet 4?) and now I'm scanning analog Ku. Good Fun .

Shawn

 

[Shawn95GT]

I'm going to Radio Shack (hopefully tomorrow if I get time) to pick up a couple of them. They have them for $2.99 each. My Digicipher II won't control a voltage-controlled polarity switching LNBF, so I'll have to use my Pansat 2700 for that.

I picked one up today and put it on. My polarity is still backwards but at least it's consistant now .

I learned today that 'Select' lets me choose satellites.

Now the question is - how do I update the sats list on this reciever. The list on the reciever is quite outdated. The menu system isn't near as user friendly as the current crop of DVB recievers.

Like I mentioned before - it doesn't seem that it really matters what the sats are since with analog you dont have to worry about symbol rates etc. If it's slaved the polarity is handled by the 'master' receiver so maybe I'm over-complicating matters.

Shawn

 

[spindoctor]

shawn go to satellitehelp .....and then you know what..index

check your receiver model follow instructions bam...


maybe this will help

sorry i cant post links john