List, I am the most green, wet behind the ears satellite guy on the planet. The end all goal is to have an ASI feed from a satellite receiver. The equipment that I have is as follows:
Motorola DSR4402X IRD
6 foot dish
Gospell GCF-D11R LNB
I am trying to get a feed, (any feed) to come in on the motorola IRD. Since I am new to this, I may be unable to do what I am trying to. I am trying to connect to AMC 1, in order to pick up a free to air channel. The reason that I am using this receiver, is that the next step after the current one is to connect to a specific satellite that requires this IRD. The questions I have are as follows:
Is it possible to pick up FTA channels with my current equipment?
If not, is there a channel with moving content that I can connect to with my current equipment?
I have a birdog with the latest firmware, and I am having a heck of a time trying to align my dish. After working with it for most of a day, I have finally reached the point in which it picks up AMC 1 with a signal of 209, and it reports that it is found, but the Q reading is 0% and no matter what I do micro movements, big movements, for azimuth and elevation. I have also tryed moving the LNB offset as well. When I am attempting to aim, I only have the Birdog connected to the LNB. From what I can see, I have a good line of site without any trees, branches structures in the way.
I am located in North Eastern Pennsylvania.
Am I doing the right thing? For the life of me, I cannot get this dish to lock on with good signal.
Does anyone have any tips for me?
Thanks in advance for any help that this list provides,
JEFF
Motorola DSR4402X IRD
6 foot dish
Gospell GCF-D11R LNB
I am trying to get a feed, (any feed) to come in on the motorola IRD. Since I am new to this, I may be unable to do what I am trying to. I am trying to connect to AMC 1, in order to pick up a free to air channel. The reason that I am using this receiver, is that the next step after the current one is to connect to a specific satellite that requires this IRD. The questions I have are as follows:
Is it possible to pick up FTA channels with my current equipment?
If not, is there a channel with moving content that I can connect to with my current equipment?
I have a birdog with the latest firmware, and I am having a heck of a time trying to align my dish. After working with it for most of a day, I have finally reached the point in which it picks up AMC 1 with a signal of 209, and it reports that it is found, but the Q reading is 0% and no matter what I do micro movements, big movements, for azimuth and elevation. I have also tryed moving the LNB offset as well. When I am attempting to aim, I only have the Birdog connected to the LNB. From what I can see, I have a good line of site without any trees, branches structures in the way.
I am located in North Eastern Pennsylvania.
Am I doing the right thing? For the life of me, I cannot get this dish to lock on with good signal.
Does anyone have any tips for me?
Thanks in advance for any help that this list provides,
JEFF