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Old 07-18-2006, 06:23 PM
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Thank you, Steve and Sadoun, for your help. Finally, I vent up to the roof, to install my new KUL2. With me, I took receiver, remote, power strip, 50' orange cable and 5" B/W TV, paid $15 for it.
Now, watching, how the motor moves with USALS commands, I found out, what these 50° limits are!
They are not longitude degrees, where the satellites are.
And they are not those azimuth calculation degrees.
They are degrees on the Satcontrol motor shaft!

Motor stops at the point which is marked 50 on this scale.
Unfortunately,when USALS moves my dish to receive 79° sat,
that one with UEN and Telemundo, motor stops at mark 49° on it's reference scale. That means, those satellites at 74° and east of that are beyond the motor travel limit.
I was thinking about the "widening the arc" but if I make it wider, then USALS will show me 79° sat when dish is actually pointing more to the east, right?
So, should I say bye-bye to Amazonas and be happy tracking sats from 79° to 129°? (there is also echo* at 148, but I don't count it)
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