My Dream Box 500s Is on it's way to me :) advice please

[ShaGGy]

Hi all,

Managed to get my hands on a genuine 500s which is being posted to me today
so i'll be out in this lovely british weather up a ladder and resurrecting my old H-H 1mtr dish from out of the shed,
now if I live out the dish erection can anyone give me some advice as to which software to install ? I will double check on its arrival that it definitely is a genuine box (it has never been used and comes as it is out of the box so nothing is installed) as i know the Gemini should only be installed on a genuine box but what would you recommend?

Also my H-H motor will not run from the box am I right in thinking a V-Box is what I need (are there alternatives)?

Thanks in advance.

[opsmonkey]

you need a USALS or DisEqC 1.2 to run off the 500s.. or a s you say anything else use a VBox..!

i use Gemini & CCcam 2.0.9 on my D500S..!

[ShaGGy]

Thanks Ospmonkey

Just hope the dish hasn`t been knocked while in the shed so its easier to set up again, don`t fancy too many trips up and down a ladder inthis weather

[opsmonkey]

.. i paid a guy to do mine.. i dont do heights

[ShaGGy]

damn just dug my dish out of the shed thinking it was a 1mtr but its a 80cm will that be ok? I know when my friend set it up years ago he was very surprised that I was getting one of the sats that he could only just get on his 1.2 mtr dish, so I am hoping it will do the job still?

[opsmonkey]

you'll get some good sats with an 80cm.. you wont get much of 16E or 0.8W.. check out the sats you can get here..

LyngSat - Lyngemark Satellite

[wiki]

help to get familar with dream box

hi guys
could you also help me to get familiar with dreambox,
what should i do to see encrpted channel.

thanks in advance

[opsmonkey]

read the forums mate.. all the stickies.. download some tutorials too

[ShaGGy]

Damn Royal mail didn`t deliver the box today so hope its her tomorrow.

whilst waiting I was looking at the V-Boxes and wondered would it not be better to replace my 36v H to H Motor with a new DiSEqC motor (or did I read somewhere that the box does not supply enough power to drive a motor)?

[firestorm]

the 500s drove my 1meter with no problem some people have reported problems driving dishes

[ShaGGy]

decided to get a new motor instead of messing about with a v-box, so dish will be on the pole tomorrow and then just wait for my 500s to arrive (damn royal mail are useless)

[ShaGGy]

Have a little problem if someone can help me out,

My dish has a adjustable bracket on the back attached to the LNB arm at the moment the bracket is offset, now I have bought a Disecq motor do I need to adjust this bracket so the disc is parallel with the arm on the motor?

example if I was to attach the dish to a pole that was vertical (without the motor) the dish would be pointing slightly upwards, is this correct? or do i need to adjust it so the dish would be vertical and parralel with the pole (without motor)?

The reason I ask is all the guides for disecq motor say to set the latitude on the motor and have no reference to adjusting the dish bracket apart from making sure it is directly in line with the markings on the motor arm.

[opsmonkey]

have you read this mate..? there's a vid from youtube on there too

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/f11/installing-motorised-dish-12815/

[ShaGGy]

Yeah looked at that, none of the guides mention the dish bracket so I am presuming the dish should be paralell to the Motor arm and the latitude set on the motor bracket only (the bracket on the dish that I am talking about would alter the latitude setting)

[opsmonkey]

on my motor mate it just mentions setting the Lattitude.. nothing about the bracket to the dish.. i presume its just set to 20degs.. and then adjusted to get best signal, as per a normal setup