Hi all,
I'm fairly new on this forum. I've been reading for a month or two now, but this is my first post. I live in SE. Kansas, and currently have an 8 foot spun aluminum dish, and an 8 foot mesh dish sitting in my front yard, facing south of course. The mesh dish is used for FTA, and the solid dish WAS used for 4DTV. The 4DTV is sitting unpluged at the moment.
I seen where sadoun was asking about adding a skew control to the gbox 4000, but I haven't seen anything new on that yet.
Has anyone done any work on this? I've been looking at my old recievers, reading up on diseqc commands etc... but as yet I have no real plan. If you got a clue I'd love to hear what work you've done, and how you intend to implement it. I know I'll keep digging, unless I come to a dead end, but I'm not there yet.
I've seen some work arounds, but they require that you set the polarity with a knob to manually tune skew for each satellite that changes its skew value. A good work around, but I can't help but think it could be completely under the control of the mover. You should only have to set the skew once for each satellite, then let the mover recall that position based on the satellite number.
So why bother with skew at all you ask? After all LNBF's don't have skew control, its manually set right? On sats like AMC9 where rtv lives its very hard to get a good signal, a little skew tweaking can make a lot of difference. AMC1 is another example. The smaller KU dishes don't seem to be affected as much by skew. I don't know why exactally, but my little primestar dish would get a booming signal when my big dish would not get as good a signal on KU. Besides they will never come up with a C/KU LNBF that has variable electronic skew control. They haven't even come up with a decent C/KU lNBF yet from what I've read.
I've worked to keep my system simple to use and legal. I don't want to clutter it up with odd adjustments for each satellite. I've always said you should be able to hand the remote to someone who has no idea its a satellite and still have them find the programs they want to watch. As is I can flip through channels on the entire arc without any intervention on my part, I want to keep it that way.
Its a great forum, keep up the good work Ice!
I see this forum being talked about on other forums, that says a lot about it! I just hope you stick to your values and don't change a thing.
PcRider
I'm fairly new on this forum. I've been reading for a month or two now, but this is my first post. I live in SE. Kansas, and currently have an 8 foot spun aluminum dish, and an 8 foot mesh dish sitting in my front yard, facing south of course. The mesh dish is used for FTA, and the solid dish WAS used for 4DTV. The 4DTV is sitting unpluged at the moment.
I seen where sadoun was asking about adding a skew control to the gbox 4000, but I haven't seen anything new on that yet.
Has anyone done any work on this? I've been looking at my old recievers, reading up on diseqc commands etc... but as yet I have no real plan. If you got a clue I'd love to hear what work you've done, and how you intend to implement it. I know I'll keep digging, unless I come to a dead end, but I'm not there yet.
I've seen some work arounds, but they require that you set the polarity with a knob to manually tune skew for each satellite that changes its skew value. A good work around, but I can't help but think it could be completely under the control of the mover. You should only have to set the skew once for each satellite, then let the mover recall that position based on the satellite number.
So why bother with skew at all you ask? After all LNBF's don't have skew control, its manually set right? On sats like AMC9 where rtv lives its very hard to get a good signal, a little skew tweaking can make a lot of difference. AMC1 is another example. The smaller KU dishes don't seem to be affected as much by skew. I don't know why exactally, but my little primestar dish would get a booming signal when my big dish would not get as good a signal on KU. Besides they will never come up with a C/KU LNBF that has variable electronic skew control. They haven't even come up with a decent C/KU lNBF yet from what I've read.
I've worked to keep my system simple to use and legal. I don't want to clutter it up with odd adjustments for each satellite. I've always said you should be able to hand the remote to someone who has no idea its a satellite and still have them find the programs they want to watch. As is I can flip through channels on the entire arc without any intervention on my part, I want to keep it that way.
Its a great forum, keep up the good work Ice!
I see this forum being talked about on other forums, that says a lot about it! I just hope you stick to your values and don't change a thing.
PcRider
