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Old 06-30-2003, 10:23 AM
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Re: Help can not lock telstar 5

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Originally Posted by wildboys
I just bought a new fta system.I have the visionplus 1020 pci card, fortec universal lnb and the 32 inch dish.My zip is 72764 I have the folowing settings.elevation 48.1,azimuth 185.1,lnb tilt 4.1.When i aim for telstar 5 i have signal between 85 and 93 but I have signal quality of 0.No matter what i do I cannot get any signal quality it stays at zero.I also have dishnetwork and directv systems which I install myself so i'm I have had alot of pratice aiming at satellites but i cannot receive any signal quality with the dvb-s card.Do anyone have any suggestions?
I would do what bobkat suggests, also slightly losen the LNB ring and GENTLY twist the LNB in very small increments. With that level of signal strength it seems like your dish is alligned pretty good, so it's something small. Like the LNB freq on the card, or physical skew on the dish.
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