I agree 100%. It is night & day compared to the current systems. I'm really looking forward to doing them regularly.
I did have 1 snafu today. 1st off all I didn't realize beta customers were also existing customers, that was a pleasant surprise. My customer had an existing pole mount with a spaceway dish. I knew it was going to be tight clearing the house after checking los, but thought it would work. Set everything up & found signal right away, however I wasn't sure where it would top out at. I ended up peaking about 84, scratching my head, I thought it should be higher, so I locked everything down & ran ovt. My numbers weren't even close to the target values.
I ended up moving the dish about 4' from its current location peaking out at 143 & ovt was all green. This area on spaceway the az is 201/el 45.5/tilt 17, gen4 is az 221/el 41/tilt 28. Losing that 5 on the elevation is going to be more challenging, but overall a huge improvement otherwise. I helped another installer 1 time on a excede system & this new gen4 is definitely going to be easier from an installers standpoint. I'm so glad that hughes didn't rely on the beeping alone to tune a dish like excede does. However I would like the ability to turn that noise off on the dapt, guess it's something I'll learn to live with.
Customers are going to really enjoy the internet a lot better with gen4. I was truly impressed with the performance of the system I installed this afternoon & my customer was also very happy. It is a huge step for hughes in the right direction.
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