I am setting up my first analog receiver, a PC-2000. The final intention is to use it as a dish mover with a Von Weise actuator pushing a 6 foot Kaul.
The actuator is working fine, pushing and pulling in the correct direction. I have wiped the existing memory and set up some basic limits east and west. I have also found a test card for Johnson TV on G3 channel 5 and have peaked the dish on that and have entered G3 as a satellite. So far so good. I have cast around for some other test cards that might help me get some other sats programmed in but they are not popping up as expected. Dish is not out of alignment since on the digital side I can pick up a number of sats no problem.
The issue seems to be the sparse number of active analog channels to home in on to get the receiver set up. Is there a list somewhere of analog channels that might be of help to me in this setup situation?
Would also appreciate a list from somewhere of what some of the PC 2000 abbreviations for satellites mean. Some of them are clear, particularly the G series but out east there is an S2 that I am having a hard time finding. Maybe it has gone already. Receiver is datestamped Feb 1997.
The actuator is working fine, pushing and pulling in the correct direction. I have wiped the existing memory and set up some basic limits east and west. I have also found a test card for Johnson TV on G3 channel 5 and have peaked the dish on that and have entered G3 as a satellite. So far so good. I have cast around for some other test cards that might help me get some other sats programmed in but they are not popping up as expected. Dish is not out of alignment since on the digital side I can pick up a number of sats no problem.
The issue seems to be the sparse number of active analog channels to home in on to get the receiver set up. Is there a list somewhere of analog channels that might be of help to me in this setup situation?
Would also appreciate a list from somewhere of what some of the PC 2000 abbreviations for satellites mean. Some of them are clear, particularly the G series but out east there is an S2 that I am having a hard time finding. Maybe it has gone already. Receiver is datestamped Feb 1997.