Question re Legacy LNB with H24 receiver

[brettp]

These are the setting to start at with the dish ...
This has to be exact or you won't get anything.

Have you set up any D* dishes before ?

If the mast is plumb, I set the elevation and the tilt ... then slowly sweep for the Sat 101 signal.

I have set them up before a while back. Never had a problem getting some activity on the signal meter pretty quickly. Are my setting correct? (Dish Type: SL3 LNB, RB/INTL: None Selected, Switch Type: SWM LNB 8 CH)

Thanks

 

[Claude Greiner]

The issue going back to legacy is SWM mode does not send any power to the LNB, and legacy is not auto detect.

I switched a few over from SWM to legacy the other day. The key is to repeat satellite setup and have a known good legacy LNB hooked up that gets a signal.

Once it downloads the guide and runs the tests it’s on legacy.

I had to install an H23 at the police department yesterday and didn’t know if the system was SWM or legacy.

So I set the receiver on legacy and let everything auto detect if it was SWM.

 

[HoTat2]

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So I set the receiver on legacy and let everything auto detect *if* it was SWM.

So what did the installation at the police station turn out to be?

SWiM or legacy?

 

[Claude Greiner]

So what did the installation at the police station turn out to be?

SWiM or legacy?

Legacy. They had 42 receivers at the 911 dispatch center

 

[texasbrit]

Ok guys, I ordered and received the SWM SL3 LNB and power box. I hooked it up and when I go to repeat sat setup, when I try to navigate over to "Dish type", "RB/INTL", and "Switch Type", it goes into a screen that says "Advanced Program Guide Data" and it remains stuck there at 0% indefinitely. I hit reset and as soon as I try to navigate over to adjust the configurations I get stuck in the Advanced Program Guide Data screen. How can I get out of this to adjust the configurations if necessary?

It is currently configured as follows: Dish Type: SL3 LNB, RB/INTL: None Selected, Switch Type: SWM LNB 8 CH.

Do I even need to change any of these?

I tried going to signal meters and I moved the dish around (it is plumb) side to side and I get absolutely nothing. I started by pointing it in the general direction that the one on my house is facing.

It's a slimline swm dish so assuming you have the powerinserter correctly configured it will set the parameters automtically, which is what it is doing, you can't change the dish/switch/reverse band settings.you just need to find the 101 sat

 

[edisonprime]

The dish with 3 circles is called a "Slimline-5" (or "SL5") and can receive signals from 5 satellite locations in the sky, 99, 101, 103, 110, and 119 WL.

Whereas the SL3 in the photos (with 1 circle) is for 3 positions, 99, 101, and 103 WL.

However, DIRECTV does not use 110 WL for service in the U.S., and is only for Puerto Rico.

And 119 WL carries Spanish and other foreign language programming, SD spotbeam locals for certain markets, and a few foreign genre music only channels. So unless you have something of interest there you'll do fine with the SL3 LNB.

119 also gets you more SonicTap channels as well. That’s why I have the Reverse Band 5 LNB.

 

[HoTat2]

119 also gets you more SonicTap channels as well. That’s why I have the Reverse Band 5 LNB.

Yes ...

That's what I meant before by "a few foreign genre music only channels" ...

 

[edisonprime]

Yes ...

That's what I meant before by "a few foreign genre music only channels" ...

Um, Holidays and Happenings is domestic and I know that a few other ones are domestic as well.