Motorized Satellite Dish Almost Set Up

[digicon]

thats exactly what i've been trying to do,
yesterday i had 0.8w and was fiddling about trying to get the rest, earlier today i had signals on 19, 28, but now nothing
its driving me mad
its an 30 min job at most, so far i've beenat it 3 days
not should if it my box now
starting not to trust anything
is there a better sat finder ipk to put in vu+duo vix image

If you happen to have an Android smartphone then this will do the job a treat, no more going back inside and checking or bringing out a portable TV.

http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/board/index.php?page=Thread&postID=106257

[the goat]

thanks, only got old phone
as i said above had vu+ duo inside not connected to satelitte , went on to sat finder and the SNR signal strength is running between 0-20% how?
so don't trust the vix image now
had openpli image on vu+dou that has big sat strength meter bars (like the dreambox 500 image), but could not find the bouqeuts & tv stuff easily
now i'm thinking what is wrong, lnb, tuners on vu+, cable,

[ramjet]

I use a tm1500 and a sat beeper myself, with a lead hanging down from the motor to the tm and a small portable tv, although I will use a spiderbox with the same setup this weekend to set up a dish and also a motor next week at a friends house

I too dont use smartphones or anything "techy" for this task, the tm1500 and sat beeper and tv are all I need

[the goat]

that's what i'm using other than vu+ duo
can't work out why its so hard too sort out,
i've had it working before, (was working for year, then i got this vu+, had it working for few months until i update box and that mucked up box so i had to reload image)
but it did take time to set up before i got it to work the first time

[leez]

its so hard to allign for sats without a proper meter. m8 .

not a great lover of them triax dishs either just have far to much play on the elevation . hate them .

get thor right and everything will fall into place .

asuming that your moving the whole motor and dish as one

when alligning for sats .

can u not get a hold of a meter off someone.close

[Manic01]

Always found Triax dishes good quality.

[leez]

Always found Triax dishes good quality.

everyone to their own m8 .. done a few and they aint bad perfomance wise.

divent like the grove design for the elevation .i find there is to much play whist alligning for elevation.

would have a gibby instead all day long .

everyone to there own .

[the goat]

i don't like that groove that the holding bracket fits in on the traix dish,got a cheap sat meter,
just think its me

i must be doing something wrong

[Manic01]

Yes mate must be.

[leez]

i don't like that groove that the holding bracket fits in on the traix dish,got a cheap sat meter,
just think its me

i must be doing something wrong

what type of meter have you got .

i use a horizon meter .updated regular . couldnt work without it.



im sure there is a guide on here the strongest tps

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/f11/strongest-transponder-guide-7075/

may help you a bit ..


agree with another post tm 1500 can help you. use the strongest tp ..

best of luck

[Manic01]

Doubt he would use horizon if just doing his own dish.

[Manic01]

Use dishpointer.com to get a idea which way to point dish.

[the goat]

just got a wiz tech satellite finder just a cheap thing
its not like i have not done this stuff before
but everytime its been hard work to get it working
i've used this dish with 3 lnb's 28e 19e 13e
as i said above, set it up last year as motorised worked ok
but as i say it was not 20 min job, it took me days to get it right, and i just don't know why
on the triax dish there are numbers on both side i'm using the ones on the east side of the dish, i've not got a manal for dish so don't know why there are different numbers on each side of the dish
the motor bracket has lats on one side & elev on the other

[Manic01]

No idea why it's taking you so long.
As long as you get motor eleveation correct, it's not hard to sort dish elevation.
You need to make sure you are aimed at correct sat though.
Post your location maybe someone can help.

[Manic01]

Get ready for, try a blind scan reply from someone.