105 and PanSat 2500a

[wennfred]

Hello everyone, I have a new Superdish that Im trying out with my PanSat 2500a before I transfer it to my Dish 501 Receiver. Im locked on 110 and 119 but I can not find 105 FSS. Is the 2500A capable of receving a channel off the 105 bird?

I tried all the settings for my area and not even close.

Can someone give me a good known transponder Freq. to set up on the 105

I am getting high signal around the 145 degree mark but can not pull in the quality, hope this info helps.

Thanks

Fred

 

[Elchucko]

Hello everyone, I have a new Superdish that Im trying out with my PanSat 2500a before I transfer it to my Dish 501 Receiver. Im locked on 110 and 119 but I can not find 105 FSS. Is the 2500A capable of receving a channel off the 105 bird?

Why would you want to look at 105? It is only encrypted local channels, which you should be getting with your Dishnet receiver.

As I understand it, the Pansat 2500a is capable of blind search so you don't need a specific transponder frequency. However, they are posted on www.lyngsat.com .

Since you are using a Superdish, are you also connected through a DP34 switch?

Chuck

 

[wennfred]

No switches since Im just using the 2500A to look for the satellites before I make the transfer over to my Dish 501 receiver, I can do all the adjustments outside with my portable T.V. etc on the new Pole. I found the Freq. of 11720 for transponder 1, but I should still see Quality, thats what Im not getting. I guess the 2500A is not a FSS Type receiver or needs to be authorize to see any quality.

I guess I can connect my 501 now and set the Peak angle to 105 and make those adjustments to see if the 501 see the signal... what do you recommend?

Fred

 

[Elchucko]

Dish Network receivers have a built in alignment tool that you use to calibrate the dish. Superdish uses stacked LNBFs that make it necessary to use a Dish receiver for alignment, unless you are an advanced user.

I do not want to be accusatory but using a Pansat on a Dish sat when you already have a Dish receiver sounds like the beginnings of a hack, which is not allowed in this forum.

Chuck

 

[wennfred]

No hacker here, this is a 2500A that I picked up on Ebay, I also have a PanSat 3500 on order and will arrive soon, I just use the Pansat to find the signal, nothing is coming on them as in video. I dont want to mess up my Dish 501 settings on the Dishpro 500 so thats why Im trying to work the 2500a and the Superdish, I guess it wont work and will have to Connect the Dish 501 receiver to search for the 105 bird.

Last question, I want to hook up my Pansat 3500 on a Dish Motor, what is a good one out there that also works with the 3500 receiver.

Thanks

Fred

 

[W_Tracy_Parnell]

The SG2100 and the STAB are the two most used motors here I would say.