I have never used a Diseqc positioner, so I'm not very knowledgeable about their use, but the above behavior seems to be standard for DiseqC 1.2 equipment, although I don't have a clue why. I know that both my Fortec Lifetime and Lifetime Ultra say that position #s 0 thru 26 are pre-defined default values, and there doesn't seem to be any way to change them, or, in MY system there doesn't even seem to be any way to even USE them. The above suggestion that they might be for
European satellites might well be the case, because I've deleted all those from my receivers. But on any of the satellites that I have on my receiver, most of which were user defined, I only have access to the #s 27-49. Since I have about 46 sats defined, with at least 29 different positions, that isn't enough to define all my satellites, unless I'm not understanding something.
I really don't understand how there could be pre-defined "positions", because the actual position requires knowledge of the viewer's lat/lon, not just the satellite's position. I read through the DiseqC documentation, and didn't see any mention of this, so I'm confused as to where this came from.
I guess this is related to what someone was posting in another thread about not being able to change Diseqc 1.2 sat values. Really strange to me.