First off, Hi. This is my first post on this forum. Anyway, I recently acquired a pair of .75 meter channel master dishes complete with NJR2117FK and Channel Master 6245 LNBs. I also purchased an X^2 premium mini receiver. I have tried several times to get a lock on any satellite at all with no luck so far. Those attempted included SES-3, SES-2, and Galaxy-19. I apologize if these exact questions were already posed and answered elsewhere, but several searches didn't yield specific enough results. Anyway, I think the reason for my troubles could be one or both of two problems:
1. Tree cover. My yard is shrouded by very tall trees all along the southern exposure. I had thought I found a gap in the trees where they are cut back for the power lines, an augmented reality dish finding cell phone app seemed to confirm that, however the best I could do was 80 some % signal with only a very unstable 10-30% quality (as measured by the receiver.) The leaves are down, however I may still be shooting through the wires strung from the telephone poles. Could that be enough to render me out of luck?
2. And this is perhaps even more likely a culprit. I am unsure how to set up the receiver properly. My LNBs have a freq range specified on the data plates of 11.70Ghz ~ 12.20Ghz I believe. If I am understanding this correctly I need to know the Lo frequency and input that into the sat receiver? How do I find that?
Also, I set the receiver for vertical polarity only, (+13 volts) but on closer inspection of the LNB it seems to specify +15 volts? Would that mean it's a horizontal polarity LNB that needs horizontal voltage and must be turned 90 degrees to receive V?
Furthermore, I have read that one can add additional satellites and LNB settings into the X^2 mini, Is this via a firmware hack? Or simply upgrading to new firmware? because I can't seem to find a way to do it from the menus.
My dish mount is a non-pen mount from an old paging site with a 6' 2 3/8" steel pipe clamped to the mast. You can see my old setup in the pictures. (I ditched the PVC pipe in the pic because it was too wobbly.)
I would simply buy a Universal LNB, but I am doing this on the cheap and want to make sure I can receive something with the FREE LNBs I have before I invest more money.
Thank you all for your help!
1. Tree cover. My yard is shrouded by very tall trees all along the southern exposure. I had thought I found a gap in the trees where they are cut back for the power lines, an augmented reality dish finding cell phone app seemed to confirm that, however the best I could do was 80 some % signal with only a very unstable 10-30% quality (as measured by the receiver.) The leaves are down, however I may still be shooting through the wires strung from the telephone poles. Could that be enough to render me out of luck?
2. And this is perhaps even more likely a culprit. I am unsure how to set up the receiver properly. My LNBs have a freq range specified on the data plates of 11.70Ghz ~ 12.20Ghz I believe. If I am understanding this correctly I need to know the Lo frequency and input that into the sat receiver? How do I find that?
Also, I set the receiver for vertical polarity only, (+13 volts) but on closer inspection of the LNB it seems to specify +15 volts? Would that mean it's a horizontal polarity LNB that needs horizontal voltage and must be turned 90 degrees to receive V?
Furthermore, I have read that one can add additional satellites and LNB settings into the X^2 mini, Is this via a firmware hack? Or simply upgrading to new firmware? because I can't seem to find a way to do it from the menus.
My dish mount is a non-pen mount from an old paging site with a 6' 2 3/8" steel pipe clamped to the mast. You can see my old setup in the pictures. (I ditched the PVC pipe in the pic because it was too wobbly.)
I would simply buy a Universal LNB, but I am doing this on the cheap and want to make sure I can receive something with the FREE LNBs I have before I invest more money.
Thank you all for your help!
to the forum Karl Q . About your LNBs: They are single polarity LNBs. Which ever way you physically orient them determines Horizontal or Vertical. The L.O. for those would be 10750 They do state a voltage requirement of 15v but often you can get them to function a little under that.
