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OK fellow geeks !!!
I just bought me one of them PCI cards and got it flying no problems. I noticed however that the signal strength and quality indicators don't work right. I connected my T5 dish coax to the card and configured the transponders properly; however it showed weak signal and zero quality !! :?: I know the dish is aligned to T5 so there HAD to be signal at the card IF input. So I did a "SCAN ONE SATELLITE" anyway and sure enough it downloaded all the channels on T5. The weird thing is -- after I watched a few channels and came back to the configuration screen it showed good signal strength and quality -- both green!! So that's really weird. The drawback is there is no way to align a dish using this card since it doesn't seem to lock onto the signal until AFTER you download; so you would need to align the dish first using a receiver or signal meter and THEN connect it to the PCI card.....
But the card works quite well and picture quality is good.
My next quest is to try to tune in ExpressVu's Nimiq 91 and Nimiq 82 birds -- thing is, I forget what the L.O. frequency is for the LNB; it would be the same as for DishNetwork but I don't know what that is either !! :cry: Plus, I can't seem to find out where to configure the card for circular polarity. Hmmmmm.....
kat
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