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First Impressions:
Wow, this is one tiny unit! I normally ignore the manufacturer's instructions and stack units ontop of eachother. I definitely won't be stacking anything on top of this box, as it would be crushed.
The STB appears very sturdy given its size.
No power switch on back. I guess that means unplugging the unit is the only way to completely power down for swapping cables/switches/etc. crud,
The manual is HUGE, but 90% of it is in another language. Skimming the manual gives me the impression that this is going to be a bear to configure (not what I was looking for! Crud.)
Power supply is external – similar to laptop. 1st Problem, the cord is some funky European plug-in cord that will not work with typical American 110v outlets. Luckily the cord is the same style as many electronics (thus, I've stolen one from my box of xBox supplies since the seller claims he "always" ships an adaptor [somehow mine must have imploded in transit or something])
I already knew that I'd be dealing with either a SCART adaptor or using the Video/Left/Right RCA jacks on the back for video, so this is no surprise. There are places that you can buy the scart to svideo and scart to component video adaptors, but I opted to pass on those for now.
The remote is tiny. Holding the remote in my hand feels okay, until I attempt to press any of the buttons towards the bottom – it's difficult to press the buttons as the bottom without losing hold of the remote. But hey, at least it came with batteries!
Extras included:
4 port Diseqc switch (like I need another of these!)
Standard serial cable
Cross-over serial adaptor
Setup/Use:
Using the Yellow/Red/While RCA cables to connect to my TV (I didn't opt for the scart-svideo adaptor), connecting to TV was simple.
Booting the box brings me to a flickering screen. Oh yeah, this must be PAL and not NTSC. I can see the some text flickering in the background but cannot read it. I start messing with buttons and see the text change, and can almost make out the letters PAL in the black flikers. A few more clicks and the flickering quit and I see that I've conveniently selected NTSC.
Time to scan in a satellite… great, only Eurpoean sats are loaded. Trolling through the guides and various sites gave no help in manually configuring new sats. Everything pointed towards "adding" sats that were already listed in the list, and I needed to add sats that were not in the list on the box. Finally I found a satellite.xml that someone had configured for North America, and figured out that I could use a program called DreamEdit to upload the xml file onto the box via Ethernet or serial port.
After loading satellite.xml with the correct sats, I could still not select a satellite to scan. After loads of tinkering, it became obvious that I needed to enter a menu to configure the satellite/lnb options. Then I needed to enter another menu to locate the sat, and then a submenu to scan the transponders.
I selected the gotoxx functionally from the menu, and to no surprise of mine at this point, it did nothing for me. I entered my lon/lat info in various ways, but it never even caused the motor to turn at all (reading various forums confirmed the suck gotoxx support). So, now comes the fun – I had to manually find and store each satellite position and using the stored locations via diseq 1.2.
Storing satellite positions shouldn't be tough, but a curious problem with the menu requires that you always add and immediately edit the info for that location and save it. You'll never get back to that entry to edit it later since the dialog only allows you to tab into the edit fields when you are on the first or last entry in the list of satellite locations. Very frustrating when you realize that you've made a mistake and need to go back and fix it. The whole "adding a sat & transponders" thing and getting them scanned in really sucks. So much that that I already dislike this thing. As for scanning results – it picked up a few channels that even my fortec blindscan didn't find, but it also missed a bunch of channels (luckily it looks like there is a nice and cumbersome method to manually enter these channels.. crud)
Okay, so I've scanned in a few sats, so lets go watch tv:
Clicking the menu, I can select TV or Radio (among other things). Instinctively clicking the big middle button brings up the list of available tv options to choose from. It's pretty intuitive, but a bit overwhelming to have all the info that I'd scanned in to now be formatted by sat/provider/service (interesting that it knows the "provider"! That's a tidbit of info that may be helpful to some).
Selecting channels is easy enough. Each channel is given a unique number, so you can actually key in the number and it will go there (a feature that I miss on my fortec, and a feature that will make using this device with a pvr work pretty well). Changing between channels (same sat or not) is as quick as you'd expect, but there's a little distorted/flicker for a split second as soon as the channel tunes in.
One thing I'm noticing is that the bottom of my screen is getting cutoff. This isn't such a big deal, except that the menu/info for the channel is located at the bottom of the screen. Wait, I hope that's not the EPG area, because the epg is the only reason I wanted this box… crud! I did some reading, I guess this is a known issue that nobody really cares to fix since this doesn't occur in PAL format… double crud! I emailed Tech Support, but as of 5 days later, no reply.
Tinkering around in the menus, nothing much too exciting there. There are some "skins" for the interface, so I decide to select a new skin. Yikes, flipping screen like PAL comes up again.. except that I can see nothing at all (completely blank flipping screen) and cannot get the remote to respond. Eventually I have had enough rebooting and staring at it, so I use the DreamUp utility from their website, download their latest firmware flash for this box, and connect it to my pc using the included serial cable – reflashing is a breeze and got me outta the flicker-loop! Oh crud.. no more channels/satellite positions/etc. I guess I should have saved them off to my PC before tinkering :/
One thing that I'm seeing that is worth nothing about this device is that it really never shuts off. I mentioned that before (no power switch on back), but didn't realize how true this is. If you get an error message on the screen and then click the power button, the unit will tell you that it is off (indicated by the green light on the front turning to red), yet the error message continues to display. Even when you don't have an error, the unit outputs a black screen image instead of cutting off its output entirely. This is a problem for people like me who have an A/V switch that auto-senses active inputs. The dreambox video is always active, even when it's turned off. So now I have to manually switch my A/V switch over to watch tv on another input.. crud. Oh yeah, and everytime you turn the unit back on, it requires you to select a channel - it turns on and shows just a black screen until you start clicking menu buttons and select a channel. This seems silly, especially if you watch the same channel most of the time. Crud.
I plan to give the unit a bit more workout when I have time, but no more time for now. The big projects for the future will be setting up the ability to record scheduled events to a shared pc drive, and load the EPG database with my own EPG data. A secondary 'fun' project would be to determine how to capture/rip mp3's for listening on my zune,ipod, or rio.. and maybe investigate the streaming functionality to stream video directly to my xboxes with xbmc installed.
Wow, this is one tiny unit! I normally ignore the manufacturer's instructions and stack units ontop of eachother. I definitely won't be stacking anything on top of this box, as it would be crushed.
The STB appears very sturdy given its size.
No power switch on back. I guess that means unplugging the unit is the only way to completely power down for swapping cables/switches/etc. crud,
The manual is HUGE, but 90% of it is in another language. Skimming the manual gives me the impression that this is going to be a bear to configure (not what I was looking for! Crud.)
Power supply is external – similar to laptop. 1st Problem, the cord is some funky European plug-in cord that will not work with typical American 110v outlets. Luckily the cord is the same style as many electronics (thus, I've stolen one from my box of xBox supplies since the seller claims he "always" ships an adaptor [somehow mine must have imploded in transit or something])
I already knew that I'd be dealing with either a SCART adaptor or using the Video/Left/Right RCA jacks on the back for video, so this is no surprise. There are places that you can buy the scart to svideo and scart to component video adaptors, but I opted to pass on those for now.
The remote is tiny. Holding the remote in my hand feels okay, until I attempt to press any of the buttons towards the bottom – it's difficult to press the buttons as the bottom without losing hold of the remote. But hey, at least it came with batteries!
Extras included:
4 port Diseqc switch (like I need another of these!)
Standard serial cable
Cross-over serial adaptor
Setup/Use:
Using the Yellow/Red/While RCA cables to connect to my TV (I didn't opt for the scart-svideo adaptor), connecting to TV was simple.
Booting the box brings me to a flickering screen. Oh yeah, this must be PAL and not NTSC. I can see the some text flickering in the background but cannot read it. I start messing with buttons and see the text change, and can almost make out the letters PAL in the black flikers. A few more clicks and the flickering quit and I see that I've conveniently selected NTSC.
Time to scan in a satellite… great, only Eurpoean sats are loaded. Trolling through the guides and various sites gave no help in manually configuring new sats. Everything pointed towards "adding" sats that were already listed in the list, and I needed to add sats that were not in the list on the box. Finally I found a satellite.xml that someone had configured for North America, and figured out that I could use a program called DreamEdit to upload the xml file onto the box via Ethernet or serial port.
After loading satellite.xml with the correct sats, I could still not select a satellite to scan. After loads of tinkering, it became obvious that I needed to enter a menu to configure the satellite/lnb options. Then I needed to enter another menu to locate the sat, and then a submenu to scan the transponders.
I selected the gotoxx functionally from the menu, and to no surprise of mine at this point, it did nothing for me. I entered my lon/lat info in various ways, but it never even caused the motor to turn at all (reading various forums confirmed the suck gotoxx support). So, now comes the fun – I had to manually find and store each satellite position and using the stored locations via diseq 1.2.
Storing satellite positions shouldn't be tough, but a curious problem with the menu requires that you always add and immediately edit the info for that location and save it. You'll never get back to that entry to edit it later since the dialog only allows you to tab into the edit fields when you are on the first or last entry in the list of satellite locations. Very frustrating when you realize that you've made a mistake and need to go back and fix it. The whole "adding a sat & transponders" thing and getting them scanned in really sucks. So much that that I already dislike this thing. As for scanning results – it picked up a few channels that even my fortec blindscan didn't find, but it also missed a bunch of channels (luckily it looks like there is a nice and cumbersome method to manually enter these channels.. crud)
Okay, so I've scanned in a few sats, so lets go watch tv:
Clicking the menu, I can select TV or Radio (among other things). Instinctively clicking the big middle button brings up the list of available tv options to choose from. It's pretty intuitive, but a bit overwhelming to have all the info that I'd scanned in to now be formatted by sat/provider/service (interesting that it knows the "provider"! That's a tidbit of info that may be helpful to some).
Selecting channels is easy enough. Each channel is given a unique number, so you can actually key in the number and it will go there (a feature that I miss on my fortec, and a feature that will make using this device with a pvr work pretty well). Changing between channels (same sat or not) is as quick as you'd expect, but there's a little distorted/flicker for a split second as soon as the channel tunes in.
One thing I'm noticing is that the bottom of my screen is getting cutoff. This isn't such a big deal, except that the menu/info for the channel is located at the bottom of the screen. Wait, I hope that's not the EPG area, because the epg is the only reason I wanted this box… crud! I did some reading, I guess this is a known issue that nobody really cares to fix since this doesn't occur in PAL format… double crud! I emailed Tech Support, but as of 5 days later, no reply.
Tinkering around in the menus, nothing much too exciting there. There are some "skins" for the interface, so I decide to select a new skin. Yikes, flipping screen like PAL comes up again.. except that I can see nothing at all (completely blank flipping screen) and cannot get the remote to respond. Eventually I have had enough rebooting and staring at it, so I use the DreamUp utility from their website, download their latest firmware flash for this box, and connect it to my pc using the included serial cable – reflashing is a breeze and got me outta the flicker-loop! Oh crud.. no more channels/satellite positions/etc. I guess I should have saved them off to my PC before tinkering :/
One thing that I'm seeing that is worth nothing about this device is that it really never shuts off. I mentioned that before (no power switch on back), but didn't realize how true this is. If you get an error message on the screen and then click the power button, the unit will tell you that it is off (indicated by the green light on the front turning to red), yet the error message continues to display. Even when you don't have an error, the unit outputs a black screen image instead of cutting off its output entirely. This is a problem for people like me who have an A/V switch that auto-senses active inputs. The dreambox video is always active, even when it's turned off. So now I have to manually switch my A/V switch over to watch tv on another input.. crud. Oh yeah, and everytime you turn the unit back on, it requires you to select a channel - it turns on and shows just a black screen until you start clicking menu buttons and select a channel. This seems silly, especially if you watch the same channel most of the time. Crud.
I plan to give the unit a bit more workout when I have time, but no more time for now. The big projects for the future will be setting up the ability to record scheduled events to a shared pc drive, and load the EPG database with my own EPG data. A secondary 'fun' project would be to determine how to capture/rip mp3's for listening on my zune,ipod, or rio.. and maybe investigate the streaming functionality to stream video directly to my xboxes with xbmc installed.
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I feel like this was discussed in another thread, but I can't find it. I have T-Mobile and my last iPhone upgrade was in 2020. I want to get a new iPhone, but what is the best way to go about doing it? Should I order the iPhone from T-Mobile directly, or should I buy from the Apple Store? I feel like there are pros/cons to each option.
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I have a Hopper with Sling. (Don't know exact model.) A couple nights ago, I went into the DVR screen, and noted that it was recording three programs. Yet I was able to view live TV (that was not one of the channels being recorded.) Did something change? In the past, it would only let me watch one of the channels being recorded, or any recording in the DVR menu. Maybe it was streaming, although there was no indication of that?
Apologies if this has been covered; I searched and didn't find anything.
Thanks.
Apologies if this has been covered; I searched and didn't find anything.
Thanks.
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iJustine
Time for another AWESOME video from iJustine!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YJjxjYvmQ8s
Direct YouTube Link - Good Bye, Tim! Last WWDC
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YJjxjYvmQ8s
Direct YouTube Link - Good Bye, Tim! Last WWDC
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
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Cutting Edge
WANTED DirecTV LCC
Anyone have a DirecTV Local Channel Connector that you'd like to get rid of at a reasonable price? DirecTV is currently in a contract dispute with owner of my local ABC affiliate.
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I did that. The response was that the LCC is not available. Escalated the issue to a tech support person with the same results.
Could be out of them I guess ... I'd keep trying, every 3-4 days.I did that. The response was that the LCC is not available. Escalated the issue to a tech support person with the same results.
If they are not out of them as them WHY you can't get one, seeing Your in a Dispute. Thats what they are for.
I would make them give you a real answer, don't let them off the hook.
I had one, and it worked well, but I believe I gave it to another D* friend (also had a AM21), I know I gave them away ...
According to the tech support guy, they don't have any in stock. He said I should receive an email when and if they have them. I even told him I would accept a refurbished unit.
I'm not sure your going to find any Refurbished ones as D* doesn't ask for them back.According to the tech support guy, they don't have any in stock. He said I should receive an email when and if they have them. I even told him I would accept a refurbished unit.
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Did anyone have a price increase today on their equipment? I own my VIP211k's, and they have been $5.00. My bill that I received last week shows the "add-ons" as being $5.00. However, I just logged into my Dish account, and my "add-ons" are now $10.00. Did the additional receivers go up by $5.00 recently?
As I mentioned, my last bill shows $5.00 and under the notes, nothing is mentioned about a price increase.
As I mentioned, my last bill shows $5.00 and under the notes, nothing is mentioned about a price increase.
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Hello everyone, new guy here. I'm trying to solve problem I'm having with Dish bonus view channels. When I'm watching the bonus view channels then I switch back to regular dish channels, after few minutes the screen flips to black and after 30 seconds flips back to regular channels and continues to flip back and forth until I turn off TV. After I wait 30 minutes and turn back on , I can use regular channels again. So, its after I switch from bonus view channels to regular dish channels the problem starts. Been trying to fix this for a month, but no luck
Here what I've done.
i contacted Dish support and they sent me a new Joey3, but no help. Switched to a different HDMI input on TV, no help. Used different HDMI cable , no help. Used different electrical wall plug, no help.
Finally got a Dish tech to check it. He ran all systems check and was OK. Finally he brought in a small TV and plugged in the HDMI out from the Joey to the small TV. He could not get the problem to occur on his small TV, so the new Joey was working OK. So, then the problem must be myTV. He made some phone calls and came back with the answer that there must be a problem with the analog to digital switch in my TV. Has anyone ever heard of a problem like this, or is it time to be looking for a new TV? My tv LG OLED65C8PUA. TV has been trouble free til now. Thanks
Here what I've done.
i contacted Dish support and they sent me a new Joey3, but no help. Switched to a different HDMI input on TV, no help. Used different HDMI cable , no help. Used different electrical wall plug, no help.
Finally got a Dish tech to check it. He ran all systems check and was OK. Finally he brought in a small TV and plugged in the HDMI out from the Joey to the small TV. He could not get the problem to occur on his small TV, so the new Joey was working OK. So, then the problem must be myTV. He made some phone calls and came back with the answer that there must be a problem with the analog to digital switch in my TV. Has anyone ever heard of a problem like this, or is it time to be looking for a new TV? My tv LG OLED65C8PUA. TV has been trouble free til now. Thanks
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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House of the Dragon, the prequel to Game of Thrones, premieres on HBO Max on 8/21. I will be warching
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View: https://youtu.be/fNwwt25mheo
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'Game of Thrones' spinoff 'House of the Dragon' fires up release date at HBO, drops new character pics
The wait’s felt a little like watching for a dragon egg to hatch, but HBO’s hugely anticipated Game of Thrones prequel series finally has a release date. House of the Dragon will debut the first of its initial 10-episode season this summer, the network revealed today in a series of tweets that...
View: https://youtu.be/fNwwt25mheo
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Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unH0Z1jl228
Direct YouTube Link - Why New FCC Rules Could Crush Phone Privacy in the US
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unH0Z1jl228
Direct YouTube Link - Why New FCC Rules Could Crush Phone Privacy in the US
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
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Hi all, I recently inherited a FTA system off Craiglist and have been trying to get it set up. What I got was a Glorystar-branded ~90cm offset dish with a ground mount (/flat roof) frame, and GEOSATpro DSR200c receiver. From that initial equipment, I've replaced the old LNBF with a (cheap!) new one and also splurged on an SG-2100 H-H motorized rotor which does respond from the receiver's USALS menu.
The previous owner had it set up for religious programming on Galaxy 19 and I've been trying to start by finding that same bird at least. After a couple sessions I'm not sure I have, but I've found *something* at least! A handful of motor ticks further than the dish wants to be for 97W after starting from motor 0 pointing as much south as I can guess at. (I don't have great references to aim for and it's really hard to sight where exactly the dish is pointing anyway….)
Anyway, so far there's only one transponder that I've ever been able to catch as I search. It's 12146 V and when the receiver scans it I get this list of video channels:
but it's a long-winded spiel about "you know us as an industry-leading satellite solutions provider with over a quarter million sites" and to call them For All Your Every Needs™ type thing.
While I get little blips from other frequencies, this is the only strong transponder I've been able to come across. My receiver shows it as S 75 and Q up to 85 when I adjust it. It actually seemed to get better as I **un**skewed my LBNF — iiuc G19 was supposed to be -20º for me but however I'm supposed to be reading/referencing the angles the puck is now basically at 0º relative to the dish/arm got the strongest on this transponder.
Anyway sorry this is so long winded already… my question is, do I even have the right satellite? None of the other transponders that are supposed to be active on G-19 seem to come in. And if not the right satellite does anyone happen to recognize which one I might have found instead? I think knowing that would help me then adjust for a truer south aim and then hopeful the USALS will work automatically once I can get it dialed in.
The previous owner had it set up for religious programming on Galaxy 19 and I've been trying to start by finding that same bird at least. After a couple sessions I'm not sure I have, but I've found *something* at least! A handful of motor ticks further than the dish wants to be for 97W after starting from motor 0 pointing as much south as I can guess at. (I don't have great references to aim for and it's really hard to sight where exactly the dish is pointing anyway….)
Anyway, so far there's only one transponder that I've ever been able to catch as I search. It's 12146 V and when the receiver scans it I get this list of video channels:
- 1.1 Srv_1
- 2.84 OU_Chan
- 3.2 Srv_2
- 4.5 Srv_5
- 5.3 Srv_3
- 6.4 Srv_4
- 7.6 Srv_6
- 8.7 Srv_7
but it's a long-winded spiel about "you know us as an industry-leading satellite solutions provider with over a quarter million sites" and to call them For All Your Every Needs™ type thing.While I get little blips from other frequencies, this is the only strong transponder I've been able to come across. My receiver shows it as S 75 and Q up to 85 when I adjust it. It actually seemed to get better as I **un**skewed my LBNF — iiuc G19 was supposed to be -20º for me but however I'm supposed to be reading/referencing the angles the puck is now basically at 0º relative to the dish/arm got the strongest on this transponder.
Anyway sorry this is so long winded already… my question is, do I even have the right satellite? None of the other transponders that are supposed to be active on G-19 seem to come in. And if not the right satellite does anyone happen to recognize which one I might have found instead? I think knowing that would help me then adjust for a truer south aim and then hopeful the USALS will work automatically once I can get it dialed in.
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Done and done and done! I ended up doing a bit more iteration (back and forth between the left-right and up-down adjustments) but I've now got it landing on G19 at its default position for 97W.
Yep, ended up with a page or two full on my receiver's search. Didn't double-check that my receiver has all six of the right transponders but I can mess with that later if it turns out I'm missing something interesting but still DVB-S / MPEG-2 compatible.
Yep, can see definite signal degradation as soon as I skew the LNB either way from "straight" (seam on the LNB lined up with the clamps on the mounting bracket). Will make setup easier if I want to try swapping anything else in!
I don't know if there's any good (unencrypted, DVB-S) satellite farther away to really check the sweep against, but I was at least able to program in my original find at 101.0 W back in (now at the correct "12000 V 20000" setting) and can get both birds automatically.
Shouldn't be *that* exciting since it's just an ad, but still really fun to choose channels on the other one and have it jog over and lock on
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beside 123W, another one to try (if it's above the horizon at your location) is Hispasat @30W. It has at least 2 DVB-S transponders with SD/Mpeg2 channelsDone and done and done! I ended up doing a bit more iteration (back and forth between the left-right and up-down adjustments) but I've now got it landing on G19 at its default position for 97W.
Yep, ended up with a page or two full on my receiver's search. Didn't double-check that my receiver has all six of the right transponders but I can mess with that later if it turns out I'm missing something interesting but still DVB-S / MPEG-2 compatible.
Yep, can see definite signal degradation as soon as I skew the LNB either way from "straight" (seam on the LNB lined up with the clamps on the mounting bracket). Will make setup easier if I want to try swapping anything else in!
I don't know if there's any good (unencrypted, DVB-S) satellite farther away to really check the sweep against, but I was at least able to program in my original find at 101.0 W back in (now at the correct "12000 V 20000" setting) and can get both birds automatically.
Shouldn't be *that* exciting since it's just an ad, but still really fun to choose channels on the other one and have it jog over and lock on
No luck finding this one. I motor over and it seems like a pretty dead spot of sky. I did get a slight blip (Q up to 1% or 2%) if I lowered the dish slightly. So I wonder if my polar mount itself maybe needs a bit of fine tuning?
Even when loosening the bolts and manually nudging the dish up/down/left/right nothing seemed to really wake it [new receiver, see below!] up and never saw anything more than 4% or 5% which I don't know is even real or could have been just noise?
I'm in Washington state (northwest CONUS) so this one's not an option for me.
I now have a V8 Finder 2
I've been able to scan in more now on G-19, and as well as watching the ad on SES 1 and getting some PBS stations there and G-16 both. So three satellites kinda in the general vicinity of each other (97W/101W/99.1W) programmed and able to rotate between.
Is G-18 at 123W as strong as the others? According to Satbeams I should be at least somewhat in its footprint although it looks like it's maybe focused more on Alaska.
Now that I'm back at my computer waiting for the Finder to charge back up looks like the Eutelsat(s) 117W have a couple Ku transponders I could look for too.