USALS setting

[semco72057]

I am trying to setup the satellites manually using the USALS setting in my receiver box since somehow it lost all the North/South & East/West settings. I know the East/West settings, but don't know the North/South setting for each satellite which came in the Mercury II receiver.

Does anyone know where I can get the North/South settings for the satellites and the places where I have checked don't have this setting. I never paid much attention to it before when setting up the receiver. Any help with this is greatly appreciated. Right now I am only able to get 9 channels on my motorized dish ( 5 of which is CCTV).

 

[AcWxRadar]

I am trying to setup the satellites manually using the USALS setting in my receiver box since somehow it lost all the North/South & East/West settings. I know the East/West settings, but don't know the North/South setting for each satellite which came in the Mercury II receiver.

Does anyone know where I can get the North/South settings for the satellites and the places where I have checked don't have this setting. I never paid much attention to it before when setting up the receiver. Any help with this is greatly appreciated. Right now I am only able to get 9 channels on my motorized dish ( 5 of which is CCTV).

Semco,

There really isn't anything such as east/west and north/south settings for the satellites in your receiver menus. With USALS, all you need to enter is your site latitude and longitude coordinates and the orbital degree of each satellite. Once you enter your site coordinates (for any one satellite) it sets this data for all the other satellites which you set up using USALS.

If you set 97.0°W (for example) to use USALS and you enter your site coordinates there, then if you go to satellite 125.0°W and select USALS, that data is automatically registered there for you. You only have to enter this information one time.

Everything else is set mechanically by you at the dish. The motor's latitude setting should be set to the same degree as your site latitude. The dish elevation should be set to what the motor and or dish installation instructions state for your site's latitude position. The azimuth (or east to west aim of the dish) is dialed in by you physically, at the dish, to align to the satellite for optimum signal quality.

Making fine adjustments to the dish elevation and the east to west azimuth aiming of the whole assembly will usually be required to peak the signal. Monitor this with a portable TV and your receiver right at the dish installation site.

RADAR

 

[crossbow]

Does anyone know where I can get the North/South settings for the satellites and the places where I have checked don't have this setting.).

All the sats orbit about the earth's equator which is zero latitude. Zero Lat is used by default in the USALS SW when calculating the correct motor angle. So you only need to enter the Sat Longitude when putting in a new sat.