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Just got a Fortec Dynamic and I need help with usals. Could someone post step by step instructions starting with motor at "0". I have entered long and lat but it does not find sats. I know the dish is tracking properly. Been using it for over a year with previous receiver. It tracked fine from 61.5 to 129. I know I am doing something wrong for usals. Gave up on it and setup the old receiver with diseqc. Thought the old receiver CW600p had a problem with usals but I guess I am the problem since I still can't get it to work. From what I read on these forums I was expecting it to be much easier on the Dynamic because of better motor controls. Thanks to all.
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I too have a Digi-Power SG2100 manufactured in the year of 2006, no issues using USALS for 3 years now! 
Works fine also if you want to use it with DiSEqC 1.2, have used and tested it with both and it works immaculately and flawlessly either way!
Any motor can operate a little flakey on the older STB, but for the most part it has worked on every receiver I have tried but only one.
The SatPros DSR-500s would be the only exception with known reason.
I think also that it may be a clone mass produced copy that sadly circulated around and IS not the same motor!
I own a Fortec Star Dynamic and it works just fine on either DiSEqC 1.2 or USALS! I prefer to use USALS though for it is the most dependable for me.
On some hard to get USALS to move to any bird you can mix them up and use DiSEqC 1.2 to get to them and save! It works with one of my West positions I can't get to which is my furthest West at 148 degrees.
Radar,
I have had the same problem almost with the Digi-Power SG2100, mine goes to 30 East fine from my position but will not go all the way to the 148 West position my furthest west.
:up THE FIX :up:
I manually drove the dish over west or bumped it to 148 and saved the position in the receiver. It used to just stop at 129 degrees West only using DiSEqC 1.2 for just that sat set at in the receiver. It was the limit out of the box! Goes there just fine now but I have noticed the other day it is gone, some trees here have Sprung to Spring here and a cut back is in order!
B~Man
Works fine also if you want to use it with DiSEqC 1.2, have used and tested it with both and it works immaculately and flawlessly either way!
Any motor can operate a little flakey on the older STB, but for the most part it has worked on every receiver I have tried but only one.
The SatPros DSR-500s would be the only exception with known reason.
I think also that it may be a clone mass produced copy that sadly circulated around and IS not the same motor!
I own a Fortec Star Dynamic and it works just fine on either DiSEqC 1.2 or USALS! I prefer to use USALS though for it is the most dependable for me.
On some hard to get USALS to move to any bird you can mix them up and use DiSEqC 1.2 to get to them and save! It works with one of my West positions I can't get to which is my furthest West at 148 degrees.
Radar,
I have had the same problem almost with the Digi-Power SG2100, mine goes to 30 East fine from my position but will not go all the way to the 148 West position my furthest west.
:up THE FIX :up:
I manually drove the dish over west or bumped it to 148 and saved the position in the receiver. It used to just stop at 129 degrees West only using DiSEqC 1.2 for just that sat set at in the receiver. It was the limit out of the box! Goes there just fine now but I have noticed the other day it is gone, some trees here have Sprung to Spring here and a cut back is in order!
B~Man
I too have a Digi-Power SG2100 manufactured in the year of 2006, no issues using USALS for 3 years now!
Works fine also if you want to use it with DiSEqC 1.2, have used and tested it with both and it works immaculately and flawlessly either way!
Any motor can operate a little flakey on the older STB, but for the most part it has worked on every receiver I have tried but only one.
The SatPros DSR-500s would be the only exception with known reason.
I think also that it may be a clone mass produced copy that sadly circulated around and IS not the same motor!
I own a Fortec Star Dynamic and it works just fine on either DiSEqC 1.2 or USALS! I prefer to use USALS though for it is the most dependable for me.
On some hard to get USALS to move to any bird you can mix them up and use DiSEqC 1.2 to get to them and save! It works with one of my West positions I can't get to which is my furthest West at 148 degrees.
Radar,
I have had the same problem almost with the Digi-Power SG2100, mine goes to 30 East fine from my position but will not go all the way to the 148 West position my furthest west.
:up THE FIX :up:
I manually drove the dish over west or bumped it to 148 and saved the position in the receiver. It used to just stop at 129 degrees West only using DiSEqC 1.2 for just that sat set at in the receiver. It was the limit out of the box! Goes there just fine now but I have noticed the other day it is gone, some trees here have Sprung to Spring here and a cut back is in order!
B~Man
You two are detecting the same thing I am and are using the same method to compensate (DiSEqC 1.2 to manually drive the motor to the sat position).
I notice this with all three of these motors: SG-2100, DG-280 and DG-380 as well as with my Coolsat 5000 and the Fortec Star Dynamic receivers.
I therefore assume that the problem lies within the USALS programming. It is as if they didn't expect anyone to drive their motor to any position beyond 59 degrees east or 59 degrees west of their home position. So, they just didn't develop the program any further than that.
Just taking a semi-educated guess. I think it sounds reasonable.
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Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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This thread is a place to discuss the 4K events that appear on channel 540. We are getting, at this point, one college football game a week. Let's hope there is more coming.
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Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
As I recall you have the Flex package. Do you sub to multisport? -02 is FS1 and -03 is ESPN. -01 is Fox so you would get that if you sub to locals.Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
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At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
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For quite a while now, people with a VIP211k have been losing their recordings on their activated external HDDs... even when there's nothing physically wrong with HDD. I believe this is an intentional and underhanded tactic that Dish is pulling in an attempt to force users away from the VIP211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
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