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Originally Posted by pmb1010
No luck.
Put a RG-6 cable out of the IF port on the Ultra, put it on either Ku or C band input on this Legend box.
Turned it on, it seems to be stuck on Ku, cycle thru 32 channels and nothing but static. I can go between "K1" and "K2" and it does the same.
If I hit up or down button on the unit, it says "no more sats east" or "no more sats west".
Cant seem to get it off of Ku. Says it finds lots of signal.
I put the Ultra on Ku, then C and shut it off.
No difference.
Oh well.
I do have a Harmony 880 programmable remote. I cant seem to find Houston Tracker on the Satellite selection menu. Legend is there, but seems to be the current line of FTA boxes they sell.
Not sure how it would know what button is for each feature anyway. Example: If there were a "Ku to C input selection" button.... how would aftermarket remote know what button this should be?
I'll see if my friend can locate the remote in the meantime. he said he should have 2 of these boxes, but only could find one - and didn't see the remote for either. |
You did use a DC block on you coax didn't you? If you didn't, it may have confused things. I'm not sure how your lnbf switches from C to Ku, perhaps 32KHz? Wouldn't think the DC from the analog would mess that up, but you never know.
Re the remote. I'll look to see if I can find a JP1 listing for it. I guess the "Legend" that was on the RS remote may be a different Legend too, I didn't know there was a more recent one. However the Radio Shack does have Houston Tracker listed, and you may too, because it's listed under HTS, not the full name.
However, I just thought of another complication. The line from your Ultra will just send C and Ku down the same coax, while the analog receiver will expect Ku in on port and C in the other. The only reason this is important, is that first the C channels are in reversed order, and secondly, the spacing between Ku channels is different. I was going to say that I remembered something else, like reversed video or something. I can't remember, but there is something else different about Ku vs C. These aren't problems, but it would make it more convenient to go into separate ports. And if that really is a HTS receiver, you'll probably have to set up the ports to be C and Ku, because there is the option for the ports to be H/V instead.
There isn't much analog on Ku anymore, but if you find any, the channel spacing will generally be wrong. Ie the channels will be off freq. This was true for all Ku analog receivers. You'll have to shift the freq one way or the other to tun in ku channels. Again you need the remote for this, but there was a little save button or something that would save the channel freq. However you'll probably be stuck on one satellite unless you rig up some fake
actuator pulse to make it think you're moving from sat to sat, so there will be a limit to how many you can save, but I don't think you'll find enough KU analog for this to matter. About the only thing I've seen recently is occasional sports feeds or news feeds.