Here is a nice trick (for a BLIND SCAN capable receiver):
If you have your satellite dish and motor aligned perfectly so that you may use USALS, then you may enter a new satellite through the ADD/EDIT SAT/TP menu and fill in the appropriate blanks for the satellite information, your switch and motor information, etc.
Then add in ONE TP: 11700 MHz, (H or V), with any arbitrary SR at your choosing, leave the FEC as AUTO and then go to the USALS menu and command the dish to "GO TO POSITION". When the dish stops moving, go to the blind scan menu and let it roll!
In other words, if you trust your dish alignment and don't need to use DiSEqC 1.2 motor control to actually line up the signal, then you DON'T require an active TP at all. Just dial in to the sat orbital location using USALS and BLIND SCAN for what is there.
You must enter one TP irregardless (to satisfy your reciever's logic - since it cannot have a totally blank slate to start), but if you don't know which TP is active, just pick the lowest TP frequency that is possible on the totem pole and enter that as your starting point. Actually, any TP frequency, as long as it is in the proper range will work. It's just easier for me to remember the lowest part of the band or the highest and it doesn't matter what you enter, as long as there is ONE TP recorded, active or not.
It works really well and very simply since you don't have to know what an active TP on that sat is. You just make something up that falls within the rules of the that sat's TPs availabilities and in accordance with your equipment. Then, you just program the sat position to use USALS, command it to go there, then tell it to blind scan.
Thought you might like to know one of the unseen benefits of having a properly aligned dish/motor and USALS motor positioning.
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