I've been reading this forum for a couple of months, and bought a system about a month ago.....(Captiveworks 600s Premium, Fortec .9 meter dish, HH90 motor, Invacom quad Lnbf).
I got a stand from a convenience store, which was damaged during Hurricane Rita. The dish was shot but the stand was good (I thought.)
Anyway, I fooled around with this thing for several weeks, and just couldn't get it aimed. Once, I managed to get a handful of channels, but then lost them when I went out to "tweak" the signal.
I finally spent an afternoon reading all of the tech tips posted by Iceberg. And now, I have to give major props to Iceberg for posting all of those tips.
After reading about the Invacom lnbf, I decided to switch it from "universal" to the 9750/10750 option in the antenna setup menu.
The other thing was this...I was SURE that this commercial grade stand was plumb (I have it sitting on solid concrete on the ground) but I decided to check, just to be sure. Sure enough! The center pole was about 3 degrees off being plumb! After correcting those two things, I found it easy to find 97W, autoscanned it, then went to one of the dish satellites, and then another, so I knew I had three good ones.
I then autoscanned every satellite in the menu, and the channel guide told me I had over 1500 channels. After deleting all of the $, I still have more than plenty to watch.
So, thanks for the tips!
I got a stand from a convenience store, which was damaged during Hurricane Rita. The dish was shot but the stand was good (I thought.)
Anyway, I fooled around with this thing for several weeks, and just couldn't get it aimed. Once, I managed to get a handful of channels, but then lost them when I went out to "tweak" the signal.
I finally spent an afternoon reading all of the tech tips posted by Iceberg. And now, I have to give major props to Iceberg for posting all of those tips.
After reading about the Invacom lnbf, I decided to switch it from "universal" to the 9750/10750 option in the antenna setup menu.
The other thing was this...I was SURE that this commercial grade stand was plumb (I have it sitting on solid concrete on the ground) but I decided to check, just to be sure. Sure enough! The center pole was about 3 degrees off being plumb! After correcting those two things, I found it easy to find 97W, autoscanned it, then went to one of the dish satellites, and then another, so I knew I had three good ones.
I then autoscanned every satellite in the menu, and the channel guide told me I had over 1500 channels. After deleting all of the $, I still have more than plenty to watch.
So, thanks for the tips!
