[wejones]

Just as an update, I finally got fed up with USALS, except as a way to get close. Mainly I'm fed up with the way the Fortec Lifetime does USALS.

I think I mentioned above, that USALS wasn't reproducable, ie I'd go to a sat once, go to another one, then when I went back to the first it would be off. I tried using the DiseqC 1.2 "NUDGE" thing, but that was a disaster, because most of my sats were created by "re-naming" un-used sat, which meant that their DiseqC 1.2 settings were way off, or they were created as "new" sats, meaning that they were set at zero. Both of these things meant that when I went to "Nudge" the dish, as soon as I'd go into DiseqC 1.2, the Lifetime would take the dish somewhere else, typically over the atlantic to the dish limits or back to zero. Of course, at first I didn't realize it was doing this.

Anyway, I decided to switch to DiseqC 1.2 . However that meant that I had to find all the sats manually, and as mentioned in another thread, I was having problems with that because my LNBF was off frequency. Finally, I decided that the best way to do it was to "find" the sat with USALS on my Lifetime, then switch the cable over to my Twinhan, and use either TSREADER and/or THMOVER to fine tune and then save the current position via DiseqC 1.2 into my 2100 motor.

Still a slow process, but it seems to work. And so far I've VERY happy with the way DiseqC 1.2 works. I've been going back and forth between sats previously saved today, and it's been hitting them every time, unlike the results I had been getting with USALS. I guess it's possible that since I was jumping back and forth between USALS and DiseqC 1.2, that I was confusing USALS, and it's also possible that it was just the weird way that the Fortec Lifetime impliments USALS, but I like 1.2 better, so far.