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Ok so right now (remember c-band newbie) I am parked on 87°. I have the actuator hooked to the old Uniden analog stb. I can press east or west on the remote once and it will move just a little bit or I can hold it and it will keep moving. When I push east or west once, and it moves a little, is that movement 1°? Am I telling it, 91°, 90°, 89°, 88°, 87°? Or is it just moving one rotation of the screw inside and it doesnt correspond to anything, just hoping I hit a bird?
Now that being said, if I get an ASC1, can I be on 91° and want to go to 103° and tell it to move to 103° and it bring me right to 103°, or do I need to bump it over until I'm in the right area, then fine tune by pushing east / west?
Also, the skew. I'm now running the voltage controlled geosat pro c-2 LNB. I don't need to do anything like turn the lnb by hand when moving it right? The skew change is in sync with the movement of the dish in relation to the angle of the dish to the horizon? Just like with a offset ku dish on a motor, correct? I remember talk many years back of the skew of I want to say 103° being crazy off. One of the main reasons I got the c-band is infowars on 103° so if I can't tune that one cuz of skew, before I beat my head against against the wall, it'd be nice to know if that is still an issue. Thanks guys.
Now that being said, if I get an ASC1, can I be on 91° and want to go to 103° and tell it to move to 103° and it bring me right to 103°, or do I need to bump it over until I'm in the right area, then fine tune by pushing east / west?
Also, the skew. I'm now running the voltage controlled geosat pro c-2 LNB. I don't need to do anything like turn the lnb by hand when moving it right? The skew change is in sync with the movement of the dish in relation to the angle of the dish to the horizon? Just like with a offset ku dish on a motor, correct? I remember talk many years back of the skew of I want to say 103° being crazy off. One of the main reasons I got the c-band is infowars on 103° so if I can't tune that one cuz of skew, before I beat my head against against the wall, it'd be nice to know if that is still an issue. Thanks guys.
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The amount of movement is different on each controller, actuator and dish. It also depends if the dish is near the center of the arc where there is more visible spacing between the satellites or near the horizon where the satellites appear to be closer together. After you have located a few satellites you will notice a pattern. On many systems it is typical to have 10-15 counts per degree. You can guestimate where the next satellite location will be by multiplying your systems counts per degree by the number of degrees between the current satellite and the target satellite. Example: If your system counts 10 counts per degree and the target satellite is 20 degrees away, multiply 10 x 20 = 200 counts. The dish controller display will be approximately 200 counts difference when the target satellite is located.
Locating the satellites will be the same on all controllers. Select the target satellite and an active transponder on the receiver and move the dish East/West until the Signal Quality reading is locked and optimized, then save the position. When using the ASC1 with any DiSEqC 1.2 receiver, I recommend using the receiver's DiSEqC 1.2 motor control menu to move assign and save each satellite position. This will automatically save and synchronize the receiver with hte ASC1 to providse automatic dish positioning when the receiver channel is changed.
A polar mount dish will change the skew as the dish moves across the arc. With the dish positioned at the top of the arc (True South), the C2W-PLL "0" skew mark will be aligned with the vertical axis of the dish (12 o'clock / 6 o'clock). 103w KU is now normal skew, but 103w C-band was always normal skew.
Edit: Phatwound types faster than I do! LOL!!!
Locating the satellites will be the same on all controllers. Select the target satellite and an active transponder on the receiver and move the dish East/West until the Signal Quality reading is locked and optimized, then save the position. When using the ASC1 with any DiSEqC 1.2 receiver, I recommend using the receiver's DiSEqC 1.2 motor control menu to move assign and save each satellite position. This will automatically save and synchronize the receiver with hte ASC1 to providse automatic dish positioning when the receiver channel is changed.
A polar mount dish will change the skew as the dish moves across the arc. With the dish positioned at the top of the arc (True South), the C2W-PLL "0" skew mark will be aligned with the vertical axis of the dish (12 o'clock / 6 o'clock). 103w KU is now normal skew, but 103w C-band was always normal skew.
Edit: Phatwound types faster than I do! LOL!!!
The amount of movement is different on each controller, actuator and dish. It also depends if the dish is near the center of the arc where there is more visible spacing between the satellites or near the horizon where the satellites appear to be closer together. After you have located a few satellites you will notice a pattern. On many systems it is typical to have 10-15 counts per degree. You can guestimate where the next satellite location will be by multiplying your systems counts per degree by the number of degrees between the current satellite and the target satellite. Example: If your system counts 10 counts per degree and the target satellite is 20 degrees away, multiply 10 x 20 = 200 counts. The dish controller display will be approximately 200 counts difference when the target satellite is located.
Locating the satellites will be the same on all controllers. Select the target satellite and an active transponder on the receiver and move the dish East/West until the Signal Quality reading is locked and optimized, then save the position. When using the ASC1 with any DiSEqC 1.2 receiver, I recommend using the receiver's DiSEqC 1.2 motor control menu to move assign and save each satellite position. This will automatically save and synchronize the receiver with hte ASC1 to providse automatic dish positioning when the receiver channel is changed.
A polar mount dish will change the skew as the dish moves across the arc. With the dish positioned at the top of the arc (True South), the C2W-PLL "0" skew mark will be aligned with the vertical axis of the dish (12 o'clock / 6 o'clock). 103w KU is now normal skew, but 103w C-band was always normal skew.
Edit: Phatwound types faster than I do! LOL!!!
Thanks, thats what I needed to know!
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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On Tuesday, I recorded the first episodes of the new season's NCIS shows on CBS (Dish provided, not OTA). The new New York series and Origins will both do Auto Skip, but the original, now season 24 does not. What's stranger, when I do a search for NCIS, Origins and New York show the current recording and the next episode it will record, but the original show only shows the current recording and some other channel showing the very first episode of season one. It makes no sense. When I set up the timers, I was able to use search for Origins and New York, but for the original, I had to scroll ahead in the guide until last Tuesday when the show was airing. Then set the timer from there. You can see its timer type is DVR where the other two are Seek. What am I missing?
Thanks!
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I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.
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Hard getting used to the new younger Gibbs, Mark Harmons son had the right look but I understand he didn't want the role.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
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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....
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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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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Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?
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Starting a thread klang !
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
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One episode into season 4 that dropped today...
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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.