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Now that Ive got my Ku problem fixed Im on the hunt for more stuff.
My DSR920 doesnt do much for FTA on Ku ( I do enjoy the audio stations on X4 tho as those were lost sometime back on C band.)
What is the most active sat for test and tune for Ku?
I can set my big dish up on one TV and position sats while watching for stuff on the CS6100.Also this next question may be better suited for the C band only section but how can I re arrange the I cons for sats in the 4 DTV maps? I notice that while positioning it will jump all over the place. It also doesnt make sense that 2 adjacent sats be mapped several apart.
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Im convinced Ill have to do a MR to clear the sat maps up.
Just seems like they would "adjust" them when it does the updates.
I currently have no subscriptions so maybe thats why I dont get the
updates.
I still get the DC lock and it tunes to G1 at night,

Anyway Im still lost with the Coolsat
I tried G10(G0 in 4dtv) which shows alot of free channels.
Blind scan auto scan and manual scan brought up only 4
channels that is said were scrambled,all of which were powervue,
and nothing else.Does it matter that the co rotor is powered off my
DSR 920 and the LNB is powered off the CS?
I dont have the correct power passing splitter the company hosed
the order and sent 4 splitters with both ports power passing,
They said they will resend correct ones but its been a week....
Im about ready to disect one and make it what I need,
but for now Ive got C band,dish position and servo controlled off
the DSR920 and Ku band going directly to the CS6100.
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Im even more confused as the sat maps I have from 2 different sources dont jive.
It seems as tho T7 and L7 have been moved from 129*W to 121*W.
This is not the physical location but description thats changed.
Lyngsat seems to be the most current but its a nightmare correlating
4DTV descriptions to all the other "official" descriptions.
voomvoom
Let me try and explain what happened. Motorola, the ones in charge of the Maps, had to do an Emergency Overhaul a few years back when Telstar 7 @ 129 degrees had a major breakdown. They had to move there Clients to Intelsat America 13 @ 121 degrees. They decided to Rename IA 13 to T 7 in there Maps and leave all the channels in place to cause less confusion and make the switch easier for all concerned parties? Since then most of the Clients have relocated to other satellite locations leaving only a hand full (or less) on T 7, IA 13 or G 23 as it's called now. Hope that helps explain why the 4dtv shows T 7 @ 121 degrees? If not, there's not much else I can say? Motorola could Rename all the Sats to there correct current name if they would, but don't hold your breath. They could care less about us?

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that explains it
Wondering why the first sat chart I have wasnt updated.
It was the one on the 4 DTV forums that is used to compile info for a MR.
the second I got off of the NPS site.
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Im convinced Ill have to do a MR to clear the sat maps up.
Just seems like they would "adjust" them when it does the updates.
I currently have no subscriptions so maybe thats why I dont get the
updates.
I still get the DC lock and it tunes to G1 at night,

Anyway Im still lost with the Coolsat
I tried G10(G0 in 4dtv) which shows alot of free channels.
Blind scan auto scan and manual scan brought up only 4
channels that is said were scrambled,all of which were powervue,
and nothing else.Does it matter that the co rotor is powered off my
DSR 920 and the LNB is powered off the CS?
I dont have the correct power passing splitter the company hosed
the order and sent 4 splitters with both ports power passing,
They said they will resend correct ones but its been a week....
Im about ready to disect one and make it what I need,
but for now Ive got C band,dish position and servo controlled off
the DSR920 and Ku band going directly to the CS6100.
With my setup (pansat 2500a slaved to a 922) I have to leave the 922 powered on, when I shut it off the servo reverts to vertical polarity. Pulled a lot of hair out learning this.
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OK thanks
It has been on but until I get the right splitters I have a slide switch on the LNB side to go from the DSR 920 to the CS.
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Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.
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arlo
A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.
dishstaller
That's all I got.
That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. 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....
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc
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…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.
harshness
If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

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Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.
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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.
dishstaller
Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.