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Thanks to all of you for your responses.
In conclusion best to do is to use a HF splitter (better 2300 MHz) to slave a C band receiver with a Pansat.

There are a few concerns after the discussion above:

1- I read in other posts the use of loop out to slave my Pansat, however I have the high definition module installed and the loop out is used...so I guess this option is discarded in this case... correct?

2- I searched the operation of a slaved receivers and did not find it so I my questions is about operation of this two receivers while slaved... what can I do with each to control.. This is assuming I do the normal slave and not using loop out!

- DSR922- is it only to control movement of the dish to set it to desired satellite? also to manage sub channels? anything else?

- Pansat 9200HD - will I be able to hange channels and still control (polarity) feedhorn/lnb? Can I still watch subbed channels includding HD?

Is there anything I would be able to do do with each or a recommended operation.


I am using... 240cm Fortec Star, ADL-RP3-CKu, PAT-8115 and PAT-4106A Lnbs

TX

After doing the above experimentation, and typing the message, I went to tune a PBS channel on Ku. NOTHING. I tried several channels from 4 different LNBs, and NOTHING. Fooey, I thought, the darn diseqC switch kicked the bucket. I went out with a meter and a replacement. Started to replace the switch, but first put the meter on the line from the receiver..... no voltage coming from the receiver!?!?
Went back inside, intending to pull the line from the receiver off the splitter I have there, which sends the signal to a slave receiver. I looked at the floor where the splitter was, and all there was were 3 coaxes laying on the floor. Then I looked in my pocket, and there was the splitter. Ya see, I didn't have a spare 2 way splitter to do my tests above, so I pulled the splitter off Ku band, and used that to test C-band in the previous message. But I forgot to put the switch back on the Ku line. I guess that destroys any credibility I have left relative to knowing what I'm doing, as I just wasted an hour trying to troubleshoot a problem I caused myself.

One port power pass high freq splitters work fine I have the 4 way on both c/ku on my system. RPS Satellite

The slave kit comes with a 2 way, I gave them away and grabbed two 4 ways a few months ago as I added receivers. Never had any issues.

No a very goog move B.J. that was a good set of tries experimenting bu sometimes mess too much around and ther you have a mistake... I feel sorry about your wasted hour troubleshoot and problem caused. Good start anyways...

But need a na answer on my questions! Anyone please

elzipa said:

Thanks to all of you for your responses.
In conclusion best to do is to use a HF splitter (better 2300 MHz) to slave a C band receiver with a Pansat.

There are a few concerns after the discussion above:

1- I read in other posts the use of loop out to slave my Pansat, however I have the high definition module installed and the loop out is used...so I guess this option is discarded in this case... correct?

2- I searched the operation of a slaved receivers and did not find it so I my questions is about operation of this two receivers while slaved... what can I do with each to control.. This is assuming I do the normal slave and not using loop out!

- DSR922- is it only to control movement of the dish to set it to desired satellite? also to manage sub channels? anything else?

- Pansat 9200HD - will I be able to hange channels and still control (polarity) feedhorn/lnb? Can I still watch subbed channels includding HD?

Is there anything I would be able to do do with each or a recommended operation.


I am using... 240cm Fortec Star, ADL-RP3-CKu, PAT-8115 and PAT-4106A Lnbs

TX

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elzipa said:

Thanks to all of you for your responses.
In conclusion best to do is to use a HF splitter (better 2300 MHz) to slave a C band receiver with a Pansat.

There are a few concerns after the discussion above:

1- I read in other posts the use of loop out to slave my Pansat, however I have the high definition module installed and the loop out is used...so I guess this option is discarded in this case... correct?

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I'm a bit confused re the question here. I *THINK* you're confusing connections on a 4DTV as being loop outs, and I think you're confusing suggestions above referring to using loop with respect to what is slaving what. But basically you have a few options, ie
(1) slave the Pansat to the analog. To do this, you need splitters, and have the 922 control both dish movement and polarity and power the LNBs, and the Pansat will just be able to tune on whatever sat and polarity that the 922 was viewing.
(2) Slave the 922 to the Pansat. Since you have a feedhorn with polarotor, if you do this, you'll still need to control the dish and polarity via the 922, but you can control the LNBs via the pansat, and feed the signal from the pansat to the 922 via the loopthru on the Pansat. It shouldn't matter what you have connected to the 922 in the way of HD or anything as the line from the Pansat's loop will just go in where the coax from the lnb normally went in. However this will also mean you'll need a diseqC switch at the input of the Pansat to select C/Ku, and then the 922 wouldn't be getting Ku through it's Ku port, so that will confuse it's operation. For this reason, the use of the loop thru is really only convenient if you're not planning to use Ku on the 922. If you want Ku on the 922, then it's probably best to use splitters even if slaving the 922 to the Pansat. However, you'll still have the problem that you'll have to tune the Pansat to either C or Ku to watch those bands on the 922, because the Pansat won't be powering the band it's not watching. When you slave the pansat to the 922, the 922 will be powering both C and Ku, so you can watch either band on the Pansat regardless of what you have tuned in on the 922. For that reason, I think it's really easier to just slave the Pansat to the 922..... but it really depends on how you intend to use everything.

elzipa said:

2- I searched the operation of a slaved receivers and did not find it so I my questions is about operation of this two receivers while slaved... what can I do with each to control.. This is assuming I do the normal slave and not using loop out!

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I hit on this above, but basically the slave receiver needs to watch whatever sat and polarity you're watching with the master receiver. Genenerally you can't control much except channels with the slave.

elzipa said:

- DSR922- is it only to control movement of the dish to set it to desired satellite? also to manage sub channels? anything else?

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The 922 can view analog and DCII channels which the Pansat cannot tune. The 922 will control polarity via odd/even channels, and will provide power to the LNBs.

elzipa said:

- Pansat 9200HD - will I be able to hange channels and still control (polarity) feedhorn/lnb? Can I still watch subbed channels includding HD?

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If you slave the Pansat to the 922, the 922 will do everything as it did before.

elzipa said:

Is there anything I would be able to do do with each or a recommended operation.
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TX

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Not sure what you're asking here, but as I said, the 922 operation will stay the same. To use the Pansat, however, you need to first move the 922 to the satellite you want and to the proper polarity needed for the channels you want to watch.

I don't have a 922, but have another analog C/Ku receiver. I slave 3 FTA receivers off the analog receiver using a splitter AND the passthru on one of the FTA receivers, but I have the Ku from the BUD slaved to one of my FTA receivers. So there are many, many options, some quite complicated. But the simple way to start is to use splitters to slave the Pansat to the 922, either using the high freq rated sat splitters with the power pass going to the 922, or by using cheap TV splitters with a separate DC block on the line to the Pansat.

I installed 5-3000MHz splitters X 2 and a diseqc and now scanning pretty good... started searching all channels. I will hook up another HD receiver Nfusion and see how it goes. Thanks for your response BJ