This is a tricky question to ask. I'm looking for technical info, but I lack the technical satellite language to ask it.
As a dish is told to move, it sends back closures to let the box know how far it has moved. Some dishes may have 8 per rotation, or maybe 30. What is the term for this? I would call it resolution for lack of a better term, but this would get confused with video resolution since we are talking about TV here. Anyway, I asked that question to ask this one... How much memory does the microHD have for this? The way I see it, a box could remember positions in one of two ways, it could remember the number of closures between degrees, then just count degrees, but I would suspect they actually store in memory the actual closure count for each satellite location. So if I were to crank a rotary encoder up to 30,000 closures per degree, the box would probably run out of memory in the first 4 degrees. So how much room is there for these counts? 9999? 1024? 2048? This post is probably a nightmare to read. My lack of satellite knowledge, but need for a technical answer. I do apologize.
I could call a friend who would no doubt know the answer, but I would rather not get his hopes up. He'll probably be the first to find this post anyway. DON"T GET YOUR HOPES UP!
I need to test a few things and see if they will work first. 
It's funny, while designing an electronic circuit to automate one friends massive train set, I had an idea to improve another friends satellite dishes. I want to set for maximum resolution and make sure I can receive that signal flawlessly in a very difficult environment. Thank you for reading, and any help you can offer.
As a dish is told to move, it sends back closures to let the box know how far it has moved. Some dishes may have 8 per rotation, or maybe 30. What is the term for this? I would call it resolution for lack of a better term, but this would get confused with video resolution since we are talking about TV here. Anyway, I asked that question to ask this one... How much memory does the microHD have for this? The way I see it, a box could remember positions in one of two ways, it could remember the number of closures between degrees, then just count degrees, but I would suspect they actually store in memory the actual closure count for each satellite location. So if I were to crank a rotary encoder up to 30,000 closures per degree, the box would probably run out of memory in the first 4 degrees. So how much room is there for these counts? 9999? 1024? 2048? This post is probably a nightmare to read. My lack of satellite knowledge, but need for a technical answer. I do apologize.
I could call a friend who would no doubt know the answer, but I would rather not get his hopes up. He'll probably be the first to find this post anyway. DON"T GET YOUR HOPES UP!
I need to test a few things and see if they will work first. It's funny, while designing an electronic circuit to automate one friends massive train set, I had an idea to improve another friends satellite dishes. I want to set for maximum resolution and make sure I can receive that signal flawlessly in a very difficult environment. Thank you for reading, and any help you can offer.
