Well, I spent just about the whole day getting the new 1.2 and the CK-1 LNB working
. After getting frustrated with not being able to find settings in the CS6000 that were mentioned in the documentation I have, I was finally able to punch around through the menus and get the things working. Do Microsoft “help file” writers do receiver manuals on the side ? I guess I'm dense, but I find very little help in some of the manuals that are published these days.
Anyway, I was finally able to get about five satellites scanned in and then went through and deleted, or skipped channels I didn't want or were scrambled. I'll have to post later what seems to be coming in, I ran out of daylight about the time I got finished. In fact, you can tell by the quick photos I made that it was starting to get dark. It's threatening rain too (plenty of thunder & lightning), so I didn't risk getting on the roof to get better photos. I'll make some if requested.
I had fits finding a signal until I decided to sit down and carefully go through the mathematics involved in all the angles of the mounting brackets and motor shafts. I made the calculations and recorded what I came up with, keeping in mind that I've read many times that the scales embossed on the brackets were hardly ever correct and usually 4 to 7 degrees off. Well, after taking my time and looking at all the info I could find with all this stuff, I set the receiver for 91W C-band and went out and carefully set the angles on the mounting hardware as close as I could to what I had calculated. Sounded like a good place to start, right? Since it was threatening rain, I had left the TV and receiver in the house figuring I had all day and would spend it walking back and forth, if necessary. When I went in and looked at the screen, I had green bars to about 93% on the signal and 83% quality !! I scanned the sat to see what it would do and things looked real good :up.
Now the real frustration set in. I could get the motor to go to 91W if I manually moved it away and then told it to go back, but it wouldn't go to anything else! I couldn't find ANYWHERE to set my coords in the receiver. The menu choices shown in the documents I have did NOT exist in the receiver. I then tried to set 123W in the same manner as I did the 91W, but that didn't help getting the dish to move. I ended up moving the dish manually to 123W while watching the signal and quality bars on the screen (by later taking the TV and receiver outside – rain threat gone at the time). When I got a good quality reading, I played with the “fine-tune” motor adjustments until I got the best quality and then instructed a calibration at that point. I was able to find three more satellites after that by entering them into the receiver and telling the motor to “go to “ 
. This may not be the best way, but it worked. I still don't know exactly what I did, but got it done. I may try to add more later, but will wait for better weather and sufficient time!
Thanks for all the help along the way. Some of the help was from others asking questions, but it was help all the same.
#490 Looking toward the SW from the ground. The LNB is facing slightly upward and water collects in the rings on the scalar - something for later....
#491 Looking at the LNB from the ground.
#492 Taken from the side, looking toward the west. The quality is kind of low with the zoom, sorry about that. I have the resolution set to normal, it would have helped to set it higher, I guess. Light was getting marginal too, but I wanted to get the photos out.
Bill
. After getting frustrated with not being able to find settings in the CS6000 that were mentioned in the documentation I have, I was finally able to punch around through the menus and get the things working. Do Microsoft “help file” writers do receiver manuals on the side ? I guess I'm dense, but I find very little help in some of the manuals that are published these days.Anyway, I was finally able to get about five satellites scanned in and then went through and deleted, or skipped channels I didn't want or were scrambled. I'll have to post later what seems to be coming in, I ran out of daylight about the time I got finished. In fact, you can tell by the quick photos I made that it was starting to get dark. It's threatening rain too (plenty of thunder & lightning), so I didn't risk getting on the roof to get better photos. I'll make some if requested.
I had fits finding a signal until I decided to sit down and carefully go through the mathematics involved in all the angles of the mounting brackets and motor shafts. I made the calculations and recorded what I came up with, keeping in mind that I've read many times that the scales embossed on the brackets were hardly ever correct and usually 4 to 7 degrees off. Well, after taking my time and looking at all the info I could find with all this stuff, I set the receiver for 91W C-band and went out and carefully set the angles on the mounting hardware as close as I could to what I had calculated. Sounded like a good place to start, right
? Since it was threatening rain, I had left the TV and receiver in the house figuring I had all day and would spend it walking back and forth, if necessary. When I went in and looked at the screen, I had green bars to about 93% on the signal and 83% quality !! I scanned the sat to see what it would do and things looked real good :up.Now the real frustration set in. I could get the motor to go to 91W if I manually moved it away and then told it to go back, but it wouldn't go to anything else! I couldn't find ANYWHERE to set my coords in the receiver
. The menu choices shown in the documents I have did NOT exist in the receiver. I then tried to set 123W in the same manner as I did the 91W, but that didn't help getting the dish to move. I ended up moving the dish manually to 123W while watching the signal and quality bars on the screen (by later taking the TV and receiver outside – rain threat gone at the time). When I got a good quality reading, I played with the “fine-tune” motor adjustments until I got the best quality and then instructed a calibration at that point. I was able to find three more satellites after that by entering them into the receiver and telling the motor to “go to “ . This may not be the best way, but it worked. I still don't know exactly what I did, but got it done. I may try to add more later, but will wait for better weather and sufficient time!Thanks for all the help along the way. Some of the help was from others asking questions, but it was help all the same.
#490 Looking toward the SW from the ground. The LNB is facing slightly upward and water collects in the rings on the scalar - something for later....
#491 Looking at the LNB from the ground.
#492 Taken from the side, looking toward the west. The quality is kind of low with the zoom, sorry about that. I have the resolution set to normal, it would have helped to set it higher, I guess. Light was getting marginal too, but I wanted to get the photos out.
Bill
