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Hello, I am new to FTA, I just bought S9 receiver, Pansat PM900 DiSEqC MOTOR and 36 inch Azure Shine dish AZ900X-2008-02. Please help me to setup my dish, I have two tech questions:
what is degree for elevation for the antenna dish? I lived Address: 13066, Latitude: 43.0284°, Longitude: -75.9986° So I set up Pansat PM900 DiSEqC MOTORelevation at 43, but what is elevation for the dish?
Any help for better instruction for 36 inch dish AZ900X-2008-02? I ordered dish, but the assembly instruction is a small piece of paper, the setup for elvation range A (20-57 degree) and B (50-90 degree) is not clear, the holes' number and location of LNB arm is different from the instruction paper, so I even not sure which hole should used to attach the mount?
Thank you very much for all helps!
Mc
what is degree for elevation for the antenna dish? I lived Address: 13066, Latitude: 43.0284°, Longitude: -75.9986° So I set up Pansat PM900 DiSEqC MOTORelevation at 43, but what is elevation for the dish?
Any help for better instruction for 36 inch dish AZ900X-2008-02? I ordered dish, but the assembly instruction is a small piece of paper, the setup for elvation range A (20-57 degree) and B (50-90 degree) is not clear, the holes' number and location of LNB arm is different from the instruction paper, so I even not sure which hole should used to attach the mount?
Thank you very much for all helps!
Mc
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Thank you very muchfor your helpful and useful reply! I did find PM900 manual and I did set A with the elevation pointer set to 24 degrees. Unfortunately, I did not get any good signal. When I looked at dish again, it was obviously pointing too low, almost horizontal. That is the reason I suspected I might have misunderstood of the dish manual or small crappy manual is not clear enough! I bough this system together from gosatellite.com/,
so called "North America's largest free satellite TV store retailing FTA receivers" and hope I could get good tech support. I could not get any useful helps when I had tried to call them in Canada or emailed them so far for more than 2 weeks. That is reason I have to look for help from satelliteguys, experts like you!
I will review all the instruction you sent to me first and I will let u know the results! thanks a lot!
Mc
Thank you very muchfor your helpful and useful reply! I did find PM900 manual and I did set A with the elevation pointer set to 24 degrees. Unfortunately, I did not get any good signal. When I looked at dish again, it was obviously pointing too low, almost horizontal. That is the reason I suspected I might have misunderstood of the dish manual or small crappy manual is not clear enough! I bough this system together from gosatellite.com/,
so called "North America's largest free satellite TV store retailing FTA receivers" and hope I could get good tech support. I could not get any useful helps when I had tried to call them in Canada or emailed them so far for more than 2 weeks. That is reason I have to look for help from satelliteguys, experts like you! I will review all the instruction you sent to me first and I will let u know the results! thanks a lot!Mc
Don't worry, you aren't the first person to have received less than acceptable customer service from that company. The company is there for the sale, but seem to always disappear when it comes time to provide assistance. BTW.... They are not even close to being the largest satellite TV store, but I guess that on the web everyone is a mega store! 
Since your Latitude is 43 degrees, make sure that you have set the motor Latitude Angle Scale to 43 degrees and not accidently set the motor Elevation Scale to 43 degrees. This is a common mistake to confuse these to scales on motors.
The Southern most satellite for your region is at 40 degrees elevation directly south. With the motor aimed at the zero position, the dish should appear to be tilted back from vertical by only 14 degrees. This is because your dish is an offset design and it is actually looking at a point in space that is 26 degrees higher than the dish face is pointed at..... It is also important for the dish to be aligned correctly on the motor tube and not be aimed to the left or the right of the correct alignment. Make sure that the dish is facing exactly in line with the motor when the motor is in the default zero (0) position.
Once you set the dish elevation, use USALS motor control in the receiver menu setting and enter your longitude and latitude. Select a satellite that is south of your longitude position (I.E. AMC2 at 79W) and the receiver will automatically calculate and drive the motor to that position. Depending on what LNBF the reseller provided, you will also need to set the LNBF type in receiver menu to match if standard (LO frequency 10750 or Universal LO 9750/10600). Look at "The List" tab at the top of this forum and choose an active transponder from the list and set your receiver to this frequency. Verify that the receiver has the correct polarity (Horizontal or Vertical) set and the correct symbol rate entered for the transponder frequency.
If the receiver and a small TV is beside the dish, slowly rotate the motor on the mast 10 - 15 degrees of either side of magnetically corrected south. If no Signal Quality reading is detected, increase or decrease the dish elevation angle in one degree increments and repeat the slow rotation of the motor on the mast. You may find the satellite Signal Quality reading above or below the suggested dish elevation angle.
The linked motor installation guides should assist with more detail.
Good Luck! We are here to assist!
Since your Latitude is 43 degrees, make sure that you have set the motor Latitude Angle Scale to 43 degrees and not accidently set the motor Elevation Scale to 43 degrees. This is a common mistake to confuse these to scales on motors.
The Southern most satellite for your region is at 40 degrees elevation directly south. With the motor aimed at the zero position, the dish should appear to be tilted back from vertical by only 14 degrees. This is because your dish is an offset design and it is actually looking at a point in space that is 26 degrees higher than the dish face is pointed at..... It is also important for the dish to be aligned correctly on the motor tube and not be aimed to the left or the right of the correct alignment. Make sure that the dish is facing exactly in line with the motor when the motor is in the default zero (0) position.
Once you set the dish elevation, use USALS motor control in the receiver menu setting and enter your longitude and latitude. Select a satellite that is south of your longitude position (I.E. AMC2 at 79W) and the receiver will automatically calculate and drive the motor to that position. Depending on what LNBF the reseller provided, you will also need to set the LNBF type in receiver menu to match if standard (LO frequency 10750 or Universal LO 9750/10600). Look at "The List" tab at the top of this forum and choose an active transponder from the list and set your receiver to this frequency. Verify that the receiver has the correct polarity (Horizontal or Vertical) set and the correct symbol rate entered for the transponder frequency.
If the receiver and a small TV is beside the dish, slowly rotate the motor on the mast 10 - 15 degrees of either side of magnetically corrected south. If no Signal Quality reading is detected, increase or decrease the dish elevation angle in one degree increments and repeat the slow rotation of the motor on the mast. You may find the satellite Signal Quality reading above or below the suggested dish elevation angle.
The linked motor installation guides should assist with more detail.
Good Luck! We are here to assist!
I thought I would come here and find lots of complaints about the update to the dish anywhere mobile app, but am not seeing any. It used to look just like the desktop webpage. Now you can no longer filter by sports channels or movie channels. Plus that they made it look like a big button telephone and you see fewer channels in the screen which requires more scrolling. Yes I realize you can look at sports then select which sport you want to look at, I just liked being able to see all sporting events in the guide with all other channels being filtered out. Am I alone in the wilderness on this?
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Several Dish offers showed up today in my account. Once you choose one the rest are removed. Offers were Showtime, Starz, AMC and others.
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Not for me, mines has no mention of how long aka the offer period and the Terms and conditions the $0.00 is good for. All I see is one can lose $5.00 if you decide to remove it before day 31 after you add it to the account.
You have a different offer that is free for a shorter timeframe which is different than the one that I and bnewt saw without defining the promotion period as I sent the question to DISH Care via Facebook Messenger and this is the response I got back 20 minutes ago.
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Apple has finally released their Apple TV 4K with built-in Siri and a microphone so it can respond to your queries even if you don't have the remote. It also increases in price, to $299. I had been planning on updating my current Apple TV 4K streamers, but that's $600 for the two of them, and that's a pass at this point.
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…
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…
Apple TV 4K
Apple TV 4K. New Siri AI and hands-free control. Stunning picture and immersive HomePod surround sound. Works with your Apple and smart home devices.
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. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
they all do that anyways.. ever notice your cell phone slows down when you come up for an upgrade..
. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
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But.....if you like Tulsa King....looks like you would probably like this as well. I don't mind spin-offs as long as they don't involve a sassy niece who moves from the big cityAnother Tulsa King spin off.
Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
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Tony as the director.
Would you rather have LaRoche ???Tony as the director.
No. Bring in someone new.
Tony is not serious enough for me. Parker is too close to the team and Tim is too young to take over IMO.
I don't think Tim and Tony are that far apart in Age ...No. Bring in someone new.
Remember what Tony said to Tim when they first got back together ...
Tony said: I am the New Tony, Tim .... (something to that effect)
Tony has changed, he's been running his Security Business ... I'm sure he has grown up.
Give it time ... your judging the New Tony from the old Tony.
It sounds like Tim won't be around the Team much longer either.
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Might be worth a watch when it comes out. Looks like typical big corp against the little guy movie BUT....there is a reason this plot type is so oft repeated, it draws audiences.
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