Hello all and happy new year. This'll be my first posting to the
Sadoun forums, though I have read a lot of past topics, but didn't see a couple questions answered.
I recently purchased a Lifetime receiver and have been setting it up with an old PrimeStar dish with an
SG-2100 motor. Been having trouble getting the receiver to remember the satellite locations. I'll get it pointed successfully at a satellite, move to a different satellite in the antenna setup menu, and find it successfully, but then I've lost the position of the previous satellite(s) when I try to go back to it. It'll be way off, anywhere from 5 to 50 degrees on different occasions. I'll select "go to reference" and the dish is not on zero as it had been, like it's forgetting where zero is. I'm in southern California, and here are my specific newbie questions.
(1) What are the F1, F2, and F3 keys on the remote used for?
(2) How do I make the built-in clock stop losing a minute a day?
(3) How do I use the EPG function that's barely mentioned in the manual?
(4) What or where are the predefined satellites numbered 0 through 26?
(5) How do I specify or know if a satellite I want to point to is one of those that are predefined?
(6) Is 50 therefore the max number of satellites I can have defined (user numbers 27 through 49, or only 23 of my own creation)?
(7) If I can use USALS with my SG-2100, do these predefined satellites have any meaning?
(8 ) Can I mix it so some satellites are set to USALS mode while others (namely the two furthest east, apparently beyond the limits of the USALS software) are set to DiSEqC 1.2 mode?
(9) Does the "Go to reference" option in the 1.2 menu mean the same as the ""reference position" option in the USALS menu, namely that the motor will be driven to the zero degree position, and that it will always mean that and nothing else?
(10) If I disable the positioner setting on all my satellites so the dish doesn't move as I'm scrolling through the satellite list in the antenna setup menu, as suggested in the manual, page 19, how will my dish move when I'm watching TV and I change channels to one that's on a different satellite?
(11) Is the SG-2100 literally a "dumb" device, moving only as commanded by the receiver, only providing feedback as to the motor's position?
(12) What is meant in the SG-2100's manual about reloading the "preset satellite table" when a hardware reset is performed?
Whew, I guess I had more questions than I initially thought. I look forward to the help I'm sure I'll be receiving.