Trouble setting up a Pansat 2700

[Jmperry1]

I'm new to satellite TV and having some trouble with my receiver (at least I think that's what it is). I just bought a package from gosatellite.com. It came with a Pansat receiver, 30 something inch fixed dish, single lbnf, and an installation kit. A friend who installs for Dish Network has helped me so far. The dish is mounted to a 4x4 post and line of sight to the satellite is clear. He had one of those boxes with a meter on it that whistles when it is picking up the satellite, so I'm confident that the dish is aimed correctly. The setup menu on the receiver shows 84 to 86% signal strength, but it shows 0% quality. I'm aiming for G10R. I don't know a lot about this and I'm not sure what the difference is between C-band and Ku, so I've tried to pick up both. Either way the quality stays at zero and nothing comes in. My setup settings are as follows:
G10R/C
LBN type- standard
LBN freq- 5150
22khz- off
Dis Eqc- off
scew- 45
tp- (tried them all)
position setting- disabled
Sat Scan- FTA + Scrambled (tried just FTA first)

I tried the same thing for Ku-band but switched the frequency to 10750.

We attempted to pick up a couple of other FTA satellites with similar results, zero quality. Does anyone have a clue what I'm doing wrong here? When I called gosatellite I was told to "tweak the dish". Several hours later I called back and was told you guys might be able to help. Please help!

 

[gabshere]

welcome to the group
change you LO from 5150 to 10750
a 30 inch dish will get ku signals but would barely pick up c-band signals and would require a different lnbf.

g10 is a bit hard to hit main thing to remember is very small adjustments (1/8 inch)
pick a live transpondeer from the list in the section above and tune to it. try (Galaxy 10)-11805 H 4580 or 11800 V 26660

set you elevation and skew for your location

 

[lumpkin666]

Also, unless the guy with the meter is using a nice expensive one that positively identifies the actual sat you're looking at, you could well be looking at the wrong sat. Those sats are very close together, so just a smidge off could have you getting a signal that the external signal meter reads, but not a signal from a sat that you'll register as G10.

You may want to look in your setup too, there should be a satellite listed as G10R. Unless you have a good blindscan receiver, using G10RC (the c-band side) will be scanning transponders for c-band... which may or may not yield any ku-band results.

 

[aegrotatio]

I have a cheapo satellite signal meter.
It picks up DirecTV and DiSH and Bell satellites on my linear LNBF.
You're going to need a TV and your satellite receiver near your dish or buy a better signal meter for the aiming process.
I'm always accidentally peaking on DirecTV at 101 and it bugs the heck out of me.