As I've said in previous posts I am doing my own install and want to get everything installed (dish, cable, grounds, terminations, etc.) and checked out before I buy receivers from wherever (likely BestBuy). That is because once you buy the receivers you start the countdown (30 days) to when D* requires that you activate service... Since I've bought my own (new) dish but have yet to check it out I want to know it works before I start that countdown... So I would like to point the antenna and check for signal with one of these satellite finders... However, most (but not all) say to hook one connection to the satellite dish and the other to the receiver but since I don't have a receiver yet, I can't do that... It seems that they are using the receiver ONLY to supply a DC voltage for something (??), likely for powering the satellite finder (??) or maybe they need to voltage to power the multi-switch in the triple LNB dish??? Anyway, I said "but not all" above because a couple of them supply a simple battery pack case to hook up to the "receiver" connection on the satellite finder and they tell you to outfit the battery case with 15 volts worth of AA batteries...
So can someone explain this??? Tell me a bit more about what the satellite finders need from a receiver (for those that require it) so that they can be used??? My bottom line question is can someone recommend to me a method for aligning and checking out my satellite dish (satellite finders or whatever??) before I invest in receivers and create service with D*???
Help is, as always, much appreciated... diitto...
So can someone explain this??? Tell me a bit more about what the satellite finders need from a receiver (for those that require it) so that they can be used??? My bottom line question is can someone recommend to me a method for aligning and checking out my satellite dish (satellite finders or whatever??) before I invest in receivers and create service with D*???
Help is, as always, much appreciated... diitto...