I have the equipment listed below. I've been doing FTA for about a week. I've never really got it functioning like it is capable. The Extremeview Magnum gives a great picture and menus seem easy enough. The dish is standard, motor seems to work fine, the Quad I assume is supposed to be great and finally, I've been using a 4X1 switch that says 2.0.
I'm so aggravated at this thing.......I'm wondering
if one of my darn cables are bad....or maybe my alignment is off a little...again. I've checked the alignment and it may be off just very little....but I was getting a 92 on 119 before...and would just be in the ballpark. The settings in my receiver, when I can get a sat, are nothing like what they are supposed to be. I can be getting some pictures at night...and in the morning, I turn it on and get nothing. My quality goes from like 75 to 25. None of the sats I was first getting are not working either. I had found a bunch of stuff on....148, 119, 110 and even Galaxy 10 Linear..but then everything changes, and I get nothing again. The sat settings are not what they are supposed to be either. I thought Circular was supposed to be 11,250 and Linear 10,750 on standard lnbs...the mag don't have "standard" it says "single." I've also had to use universal some too! A couple of times I've got a signal with C @ 11,250 but it would last. It was like I would lose it. None works regularly and I've actually gotten reception on 5100's. Will not pickup at the freq its supposed to be. I've been trying for quality I know that's what is important - turns it green, not signal.
Here's what I've tried; All configurations of the switch. All lnb types. All ports on the switch and receiver. All freqs. Setting switch to 1.0 Auto and 1.1 trying them all!(BTW - theres no setting for 2.0 like is marked on the switch, does that matter?) Moving from one to the other in all options. Then I bypassed the switch and went to the motor from each..C and L on the lnb. Then...after moving to for instance to E7 bypassing the motor and going straight to the lnb. After all that...still the same old crap!
If I can't get this thing going, knowing that I've had a good pic before (eventhough the settings have never been perfectly what they were supposed to be), I may be forced to commit SATICIDE! lol
Seriously, I would appreciate any and all help you could suggest. I told my boss (wife) this morning, as I was being late to work fiddling with this thing, "I will not let an inanimate object beat me!" I will be victorious......I hope!
Any suggestions that don't include the other kind of magnum (44 cal)?
I'm so aggravated at this thing.......I'm wondering
if one of my darn cables are bad....or maybe my alignment is off a little...again. I've checked the alignment and it may be off just very little....but I was getting a 92 on 119 before...and would just be in the ballpark. The settings in my receiver, when I can get a sat, are nothing like what they are supposed to be. I can be getting some pictures at night...and in the morning, I turn it on and get nothing. My quality goes from like 75 to 25. None of the sats I was first getting are not working either. I had found a bunch of stuff on....148, 119, 110 and even Galaxy 10 Linear..but then everything changes, and I get nothing again. The sat settings are not what they are supposed to be either. I thought Circular was supposed to be 11,250 and Linear 10,750 on standard lnbs...the mag don't have "standard" it says "single." I've also had to use universal some too! A couple of times I've got a signal with C @ 11,250 but it would last. It was like I would lose it. None works regularly and I've actually gotten reception on 5100's. Will not pickup at the freq its supposed to be. I've been trying for quality I know that's what is important - turns it green, not signal.Here's what I've tried; All configurations of the switch. All lnb types. All ports on the switch and receiver. All freqs. Setting switch to 1.0 Auto and 1.1 trying them all!(BTW - theres no setting for 2.0 like is marked on the switch, does that matter?) Moving from one to the other in all options. Then I bypassed the switch and went to the motor from each..C and L on the lnb. Then...after moving to for instance to E7 bypassing the motor and going straight to the lnb. After all that...still the same old crap!
If I can't get this thing going, knowing that I've had a good pic before (eventhough the settings have never been perfectly what they were supposed to be), I may be forced to commit SATICIDE! lol
Seriously, I would appreciate any and all help you could suggest. I told my boss (wife) this morning, as I was being late to work fiddling with this thing, "I will not let an inanimate object beat me!" I will be victorious......I hope!
Any suggestions that don't include the other kind of magnum (44 cal)?
