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Originally Posted by mitchellross
I've tried shooting the dish at most of the sky and the Directv guy tried too with no luck. The directv guy was a young guy who didn't seem to know what he was doing. Would the problem be that I've got HD service at home and that the portable dish is standard def?
How hard is it to find a signal? The SF95 seems difficult to me, tips?
Thanks!
Ross
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You should have no problems finding a DTV sat with an
SF95. Just last weekend, I took an 18" DTV dish to a neighbor's house, and found several sats while hand holding the dish on top of a ladder (I was hoping to find the 110 sat for him, but unfortunately it was blocked by his house, and the ladder wasn't tall enough, but I did find the 101 and the NIMIQ sats. Actually managed to hand hold the dish with my left hand while scanning in the NIMIQ channels on my Fortec holding the remote in my right hand.
But what you need to do is find the azimuth (compass heading) to the sat you're looking for, then move the dish up and down slowly at that heading. You should have the SF95 adjusted to give a mid scale reading, and listen for an increase in the pitch. Once you find a point where the pitch increases, then you can try changing the azimuth to peak.
Re the signal on the DTV receiver, what sat are you trying to hit, and what channel did you have your receiver set to prior to the search? Ie different DTV receivers are different. My newest DTV receiver seems to automatically switch to the transponder I was tuned to when I go into the satellite signal menu item, while my older DTV receiver requires me to select the satellite and the transponder. Before you get a signal on the receiver, you have to have it set on an active transponder on the sat you are aimed at. Ie if you are looking to receive the 101 sat, but were last tuned to a local channel on 119, or a HD channel on 110, your receiver might have defaulted to the other sat, and a transponder on that sat, and won't give you an indication on the 101 sat until you select that sat. Or, visa-versa, if you are looking to receive say the 119 sat using an older receiver, it will be defaulting to the 101 sat transponders, so you'll have to switch it to the sat/transponder you are trying to receive, before you will get a signal strength indication.