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Thx for the insight as usual. I thought that since the failed scanning was only happening with two satellites, it must somehow be related to the satellite and not the receiver. My setup is good as it is and I am only getting weak signal and quality from G10R because it is in the extreme west end...

Update and confession: successfully self-installed, and paid to have it moved to roof Trying to get the guilt out with a good excuse. As explained above, I got the motorized 90cm dish installed and working nicely a few weeks ago. I was not getting some satellites like AMC3 that has good PBS...

I have bringing up more than one issue here, but they are all about SV-4000 I got an SV4000,90cm dish and a STAB HH-90 motor about 6 weeks ago and now that I have the entire system working nicely with new feeds and channels to daily, I Have a problem. My receiver has never been able to download...

Is it possible to check with your HOA before you buy the dish or will that be suicidal as it might alert them of the fact? If checking with them is possible and not a bad idea, then I would suggest getting the biggest they will allow you to have. I have a 90cm in 71W, and I am glad I got it...

I managed to properly align the elevation and azimuth of my installation, and I am currently blind-scanning for FTA channels in clear. I am now able to get almost all the satellites and I currently have 900 channels (still blind-scanning after 500 minutes)

Glad to say that my confidence kinda helped. I went out last evening, and found out that pulling the disk a little anti-clockwise made it rise a little, and move to the left. so I loosened the elevation and bumped it just a little (probably 35.6 as opposed to 35.4), I lost all the quality on...

Choice of Receiver. SoniceView 4000 or other I recently got a SonicView 4000 because it was touted to be flexible and easy for motorised systems (anything is easy once you install the dish and aim it right). I have noticed that although there are many free FTA channels, I may want to pay...

Killed it, but confidently tweaking again I went out yesterday to tweak my setup just a little more to get more quality in intelsat5, and I killed it, now I can't get quality on IA5. It got dark before I could finish but I am confident that I can get it working again (Wife approval is not an...

Got it working, I think, 6 satellites and counting Thanks for your advice, and I did not get to read your post in time, and the FTA hobby was eating into time that I normally dedicate to making extra money for my hobbies. I called around and most satellite techs shy away from anything that is...

USALS, at least in the STAB HH90 manual and the STAB website is meant to rotate the dish +-65 degrees from the origin. So depending on your location, if you try to point to a location that is more that the 65 degrees, it will not do anything. I am located at 71.7 W, and in the SV4K menu, if I...

What am I doing wrong? Not getting more than one satellite stogie5150, even without USALS, are you able to manually move a second or subsequent satellite and immediately fall on a good signal and QUALITY? I just updated my SV4000 firmware and software just to make sure that the USALS issue is...

I concur that Sonicview 4000 (at least at the moment), is not proving to be as good with USALS as the fella at the store said it would be. I have been able to get AMC4 at 60+ signal and 90% quality. I get all the channels on the list at...

Setup: Fortec 90cm, Sonicview 4000, Invacom Quard Location: 41.5 North, 71.7 W I have been trying to setup using (AMC6)-12143 V 2573 since it is at 72 degrees (almost due south from my location). I am able to get 90% signal strength, but the quality is still at 0% even when I try to tweak the...

I have a 38mm aluminium conduit pipe supporting the dish (90cm). After measuring again, I see that it is not 100% plumb all around cause the braces I am using are not holding it perfectly in line. I will go to home-depot today and fine a way to mount it with a system that can allow me to tweak...

I have been struggling with dish alignment, and it seems that I may be getting some success since I am able to capture one bird AMC4. This is not my due-south satellite, but once I have AMC6, I will try to use USALS to catch all the birds. I have not seems any information or feedback from...

I believe that USALS works or will work properly one I have an exact verification that plumb means plumb 90 degrees. For now, for the satellites that I have (AMC4,6) when I select one or the other, the dish moves to the next location. I hope that I do not run into any issues with it. I ordered a...

I think that at this point I understand the process very well and the limited success today has given me fuel and encouragement to work towards mapping all the birds in space. I was using two spirit levels as recommended by the local installer that I talked to a few days ago with the promise to...

I have only AMC4, but cannot get quality on AMC6/1 at 83% strength I have made some advances in the last day due to your help. I went back out and measured the south, added 14.9 declination for Zip code 01453, and I was able to get a signal of upto 83% strength for AMC6 Nahuel/1. Strangely...

Do you have a suggestion as to why I am not able to get any quality at all? When I get a signal rise, it drops again (I guess I pass the high point), but I do not see any quality at any point, even now at at 79% signal for Nahuel 1A (72 degrees W - my true south from 71.75)

"another thing to keep in mind, the dish is actually receiving signals from about 22° higher than it looks like it is pointing to" This should be a good thing for me because I had to install a 6 ftp pole above my roof to avoid my neighbours over-grown plant. Currently the dish is above the...

Since I got the FTA equipment partly as a hobby, I would hate have an installer take away all the fun, pain and toil and charge me as much as the thing cost me to install it, Does anyone have information on the correct motor and dish elevation values/formula that I should use? Is the a...

In the sonicview menu settings LNB type options are: single, OCS, and Universal. Is single the same as standard? When I was outside (during the day), I noticed that only SAT1 connection the switch get the signal to jump to 60 (I had a TV outside nex to the ladder), does this mean that the 60%...

Equipment: Sonicview 4000, Invacom Quad (QPH-031), Fortec FC-90 Dish, Stab HH-90 Motor, DisEqC 4-1 switch Location: 41.53N, 71.75W Configuration: Motor Elevation = my latitude (41.5) Dish elevation = 38.5 (based on the formula at - STAB HH motor dish angle calculation mount Satellite Look...