I am a little unclear about the order you use the menus on the coolsat. Should you stay with the dish setting menu moving the dish and looking for good quality in green bars and then try a blind scan or should you do a blind scan after every small adjustment of the dish position ?
Thanks again
Tony
Try to get the highest quality, then do a blind scan. Doing a blind scan after every small adjustment would be very tedious.
Tony,
Regarding using the menus, don't stay in the DISH SETTING menu. Use that only to set up your basic parameters. i.e. LNB type and local oscillator (LNB) Frequency etc. Save your settings (press EXIT and you will be prompted to SAVE).
I wouldn't worry about any switch settings yet and I definitely wouldn't connect any switches until you have the dish dialed in. Adding the switches at the start can often cause problems and confusion.
The reason you don't want to stay in the DISH SETTING menu to align the dish is because this menu looks at only one transponder from the satellite you have selected. It only presents the signal and quality level for the first transponder in the list. This transponder may not be a good one to use. It might not be operational, or it might be a feed TP and therefore only broadcasting at certain times of the day or it might be a very weak one for your location.
If you select either the MOTOR SETTING or the MANUAL SCAN menu, you can select the transponder you want to monitor while you dial the dish in.
After you get the parameters set up in the DISH SETTING menu, switch to the MOTORIZED SETTING menu and select USALS and enter your latitude and longitude coordinates in the ANTENNA POSITION, then highlight GO TO and press OK.
Next, go to the MANUAL SCAN menu and scroll through the "FREQUENCY" list and ensure that the transponder frequency you want to monitor is listed. If it isn't, you will have to add it manually (note the green "ADD TP" button on the screen. This corresponds to the green button on the remote.
You will have to enter the TP frequency, symbol rate and polarity, then EXIT and SAVE. If you have BEEP TONE option, select it as ON. This will help when dialing in the dish.
If you locate a really HOT (I mean strong) signal you may press OK while in the MANUAL SCAN menu and it will scan just that one TP. This may be helpful to determine what channels you are getting. If the channels match what is supposed to be on that sat and TP, then you know that you have aligned your dish to the proper sat and then all you need to do is fine tune for the optimim signal level and quality.
Once you have found one TP and confirmed that you are aligned to the proper satellite and fine tuned the dish and everything, then you can use the blind scan to find all the other active TPs on that satellite.
If you have a good firmware version installed in your Coolsat (try version 006 from this site:
http://ftafirmware.freehostia.com/ ), you should also see a provider identification banner "pop up" in the upper RH corner of the screen. For the TP that I mentioned in my previous response, this ID banner will show "Globecast". Some TPs show UNKNOWN or just a blank banner, but normally there will be something there that will help you identify if you are on the correct sat and TP.
RADAR
