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Old 10-28-2003, 02:45 PM
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When you select the "non-standart" setting, the 0/22khz is greyed out. That's normal since there are 2 LO settings, low and high which are switched by the 22khz switch)
I have never had any problem for changing the LO values regardless what setting I use. My receiver is Fortec 786v3.
Michael
Quote:
Originally Posted by wejones
> If you use 22kz switch for C/Ku,
> here is how to set it up:
> Go to antena setting, change the
> "single" to "universal", set low
> LO 5150, High LO 10750.

I had a bit of time to experiment with this. I don't have a 22khz switch, so I tried the above with the diseqc switch turned on. I assume your answer must be generic for other receivers or perhaps for a different firmware version, because it didn't work. When set to universal or anything but standard, I could not get into the LO window to change anything. They are fixed, and grayed out. Only in the "standard" category can I change the value. I thought perhaps it might be different if I selected 22khz, but it is the same there, ie I cannot change the LO values in universal mode, only in standard mode, and that doesn't have a high/low, just a single entry.
Perhaps there is some way to change this via the serial software, but I haven't tried using this yet. So I think I am stuck with defining the C and Ku sides as separate satellites.

> It will be very hard to find the
> "right" position for circular
> lnbf on the C-band dish. Some
> users have done it, but it takes
> lot of time to find right spot.

Had a bit of time to play with the circular lnbf too. Actually got it to work. Picked up a few of the music channels on one of the dish sats. Pretty poor reception. I'm not sure what my problem was before when the receiver re-booted, although before I was using the MPEG receiver to power the circular lnbf. This time, I used an old DTV receiver to power the lnbf, and ran the MPEG receiver off a T with DC block. I'm losing half my signal this way, but at least it works. Even worked out a little spreadsheet to calculate where to aim the dish based on the offset in lnb position.
Thanks.
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