Thread: Need Help ASAP plz plz plz

Originally Posted by Lak7

Ask all you want, that's what this place is for.

I agree. Thats what we're here for

007, That's an old receiver, but still a good basic one for free to air, I still have mine. One neat thing I found with it, the signal level screen makes it somewhat easy to find the satellite. Just pick out the satellite you want, choose a transponder on its list, and watch the signal level bar-graph while you slowly pan the dish east and west. (the top bar--not the quality level line yet). If you get close to a satellite signal, you'll notice the signal strength fluctuate a bit. Stop moving the dish when you see that> adjust dish elevation up or down until you get some signal quality, the bottom line of the signal screen, and run a blind scan. You'll most likely find something. Then you can compare the channels to The List (here, top of page) and see how close you are to the satellite you want! Other receivers can do this better, but I got used to this 3188's ways so I still use it sometimes to align dishes.

hi everybody ,

is abu dhabi sport not broadcasting???

nope. havent been on there for 2-3 months

Originally Posted by B.J.

Actually, Telstar 5 = Intelsat Americas 5 = Intelsat 3005 = Galaxy 25 , ie all the same satellite, just with name changes. No wonder people get confused. Bad enough when new sats replace old, or sats move to new positions, but when they change the names of the same sat, it's doubly confusing.

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Yeah it's even more confusing when they change the number that they use at a position, for example...

It said 97w was at 97w but really it's at 83w but at one time 97w was at 103w...so on Tuesdays when it is raining, we call it 103w or on Leap Day we call it 127w because when it was first deployed it was there for a while too.


That of course, was completely false. If you refer to a location by geographical position, nobody will be confused.

Somebody might not know what transponders are at that position because they memorized transponders with the name of the spacecraft that they are bolted onto.

(sorry guys. I can't help it. Anytime this comes up, I gotta chime in)

Originally Posted by freezy

Yeah it's even more confusing when they change the number that they use at a position, for example...

It said 97w was at 97w but really it's at 83w but at one time 97w was at 103w...so on Tuesdays when it is raining, we call it 103w or on Leap Day we call it 127w because when it was first deployed it was there for a while too.


That of course, was completely false. If you refer to a location by geographical position, nobody will be confused.

Somebody might not know what transponders are at that position because they memorized transponders with the name of the spacecraft that they are bolted onto.

(sorry guys. I can't help it. Anytime this comes up, I gotta chime in)

You can chime in all you want, but if you take up a hobby, and join a forum and ask for help, refuse to learn the terminology used in the hobby, then complain that people aren't talking in a language that you care to learn, then I don't understand how you expect people to communicate with you. This is not a situation of memorizing anything, this is a situation of communication. There are people in this hobby for whom the geographic longitudes mean absolutely nothing, and yet they make an effort to communicate with people too stubborn to talk in anything but longitudes. If you want the language dumbed down, you might as well subscribe to DN or DTV , then you won't even have to worry about longitudes.

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it's from lyngsat. A very useful place for info not on on "The List" on this web site