Ok, any help with the Openbox S9. Got everything in place I feel like ya'll laughin at me. lol My breakdown is as follows: Signal Intensity: 45% Signal Quality 5%. 36" disc, DG 380 1.2 motor and a WS Int ESX521FE: LNBF. Purchased from Galaxy Markt. After hooking everything up nothing. Checked: LNB Freq, Transponder. Saw online a lot of people are having this problem and a site called Openbox.us, there support requires purchase from them. Elsewhere on line anyone posting their upgraded firmware seems to have been shut down. Any suggestons/support welcome to get whats needed to make this work if possible?
We all started out like that and we had to get the info from somewhere and we had to learn.
There is no shame to ask questions.
Since you stated in your headline that you are a newbie, I would not mount the motor yet until you gain more experience how to aim the dish. Also run a single coax cable from LNBF to the receiver for now( until you get more experience) and that would make things a whole lot easier. Start simple until you get more comfortable and then move on to the next step for expanding your system.
Here is a setup for newbies.
Mount your LNBF on the support arm.
Mount your pole and make sure that the pole is 100% perfect level.
Mount your dish on the pole.
Run coax from LNBF straight to the receiver.
Set the LNBF frequency at the setup page to 10750. Diseq 1 and 1.1 disabled. 22k off. Motor type off.
Go to dishpointer.com, type your adress in and the satellite yuo are trying to get.
Dishpointer comes with google maps and will draw a line which way to point the dish. It will also give you all the info on direction, elevation of the dish and skew of the LNBF.
If you have to adjust the dish, adjust it in very very little increments because just an 1/4 to 1/2 degree off can make you or not make you to receive any viewable signal.
For a newbie I would advise to get a cheap $10-$20 signal finder that would make it easier to find and aim at the signals on ku. This meter would mount between LNBF and receiver.
If you find a strong signal go to the setup page go to any ku satellites and do a ''single satellite scan'', but do a blind scan.
After the scan click on yes.
A ''blind scan'' will scan any TV signal that a given satellite broadcast if the signal is strong enough and if your receiver can handle this kind of format.
Take a note of some of the channels , write down some of the transponder numpers with channel names .
Go to lyngsat.com and compare the transponder number and channel names with the satellite listing. This will tell you what satellite you just scanned in.
If you did not hit the right satellite you want, move your dish 2 degrees to go to the next satellite. Note...you may have to readjust your elevation and skew again very slightly. And recheck with lyngsat again.