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B.J. said:

cracklin & greenguy... Initially, I had the same thoughts that you both had, however, particularly seeing these comments;

"Of course already they have H or V on automatic. How much harder could it be to turn and set a servo thing with the receiver power?"

"USALS power could be applied to the LNB for skew control"

I'm not at all convinced that the OP'er even HAS a polarotor servo. Basically, with no DVB reveiver I'm aware of, can you send any servo info down the coax (ie "to the LNB"). These two comments have me convinced that the OP'er is using an LNBF, which in all probabilty doesn't even have a servo, and probably instead electrically switches between fixed probes to select H/V. But even if he has an LNBF which DID have servos, I don't think there are any diseqC commands that could be used to pass that info to the LNBF. The Pansat sends info via separate wires, like analog receivers do, not down the coax.

Yes, a DVB receiver could send info over the coax, but there would have to be separate electronics out at the dish, either a separate unit if the OP'er has a polarotor, or a completely re-designed LNBF, and you'd have to have a completely re-designed receiver, and you'd have to get the diseqC protocol amended. Basically, I think the OP'er's suggestion is pretty much just a wish list thing of what it would be nice if receivers and LNBFs were designed this way, not something that could be done with existing hardware, either on the LNBF side or or the receiver side of things, and yes, it would be nice, but it's not going to happen. The receiver manufacturers aren't going to spend money to do something that can't be done with current lnbfs and the lnbf manufacturers aren't going to design something that no receivers can control.

Anyway, I'm still not 100% certain exactly what the OP'er has for hardware, and what he is suggesting, but while I may be wrong, my best guess is that he doesn't even HAVE a servo, and is confusing how a polarotor controller differs from polarity control in an LNBF, and is confusing LNBFs with LNBs.

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cracklincrotch said:

That might only be a general rule. I have no problem with thee different s2 9/10 fec transponders on two different sats with my 7.5. That said there are a number of
S2 5/6 fec transponders on amc 18 that I hardly get a whiff of. And I know
I've got my lnbf skew bang on.

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