Recent content by sapote

In my case, I just wanted to see how far off my USALS position (depending on my true south setting of course) from its peak. Say if 97w has 60% quality, and by step/stop to east 10 steps and to west 10 steps from original position, then compare the data at both ends I can tell I need to move...

"Many STBs reissue switch and motor commands if the signal is lost, while changing channels or entering/changing menus" Ti, motor jumped back when signal was weak or lost, but I was doing the step/stop and did not changing channels nor menus. I would think if they provided the step/stop move in...

Ti, Good point and I will double check, but I have a feeling that one will get weak H channels if elevation is off, and weak V channel when azimuth is off.

Michael, I'm not referring to saving the increment new position to replace the calculated position; I'm talking about the step/move and during those moves the motor just jumped back to the calculated position before I got out of the step/move menu. If the menu provides the single step/stop and...

I was celebrating too soon. I just found out on 97W Galaxy 19, all Horizon frequency were fine but no signals on any Vertical frequencies. Am I still off on the Azimuth or elevation? My guess is azimuth was off. One other question on the Amiko Mini: when I'm in USALS mode and using step/stop to...

Btw, I was so shocked to see how good the NHK HD channel picture compares to my cable; sharp picture and true color. The cable company must had compressed the hell out of the signals.

I was forced to use Diceqc in a rush to watch some channels that I couldn't with usals because minor mis-alignment. Now after I nailed the setting, all Sats can be located with usals alone. I found using the iphone lever free app helped to set the motor lat precisely by measure the motor housing...

So I managed to get decent signals from 125W sat Montana PBS and 97W galaxy 19 on one setup. However this is marginal, and for 125W dish needs up and 97W needs down for best signals -- if I optimized for one sat then I had no signal on the other. This seems I am off on my true south -- a little...

Ti, Globally shifted by recalculate - does this affect only the usals or only the Diseqc sats?

Thank you guys, I think my Amiko allow some seats to be controlled by usals while others by Diseqc, globalised by only one method is not the issue. I think I understand how to use position 1,2,3...and save now, but still not sure about Recalculate function. Could you give an example when to use...

As I said I was not so sure if the motor lat -- important parameter for tracking satellites -- was set precisely at 34.2, so removed the dish from the crank shaft and used the iPhone app to measure at the crank shaft inclination plane. I suppose to read 34.2 + 45 = 79.2, but I read 80.2*...

I meant easier in troubleshoot what is the issue, motor lat setting error or something else. Say if a sat at 30* east of my long and a sat at 30* west of my long both need to have the dish rise up for max signal, then my motor lat was set too small, and if it needs to be lowered then the motor...

Ti, Isn't it easier to start from my true south, 118.2W and working east or west from this, instead of from 97w? The problem to this general method is I don't have any sat near 118W to lock on first. Brian

Ti, given: Motor/dish elecation? My lat=34.2, long=118.29w, declination=5.5. motor crank angle=45. I set the motor lat scale to 34.2; and the dish elevation = crank - declination = 45 - 5.5 = 39.5* commanded motor to 97W, then turn off USALS and manually turn the whole motor assembly/dish...

1)using mason lever, the pole is plumb on all side. But I will look again 2)yes, lat is set on motor scale 3) I got the declination angle from dishpointer based on my lat, then I set the dish elevation = motor crank - declination.