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Originally Posted by jahb
am not sure how to post this to the full forum.
I have a Coolsat 500
33in dish
Spitfire KU LNBF Model ASC321
I live in Minnesota and the Sat finder says the coordinates should be.
Elevation 38.1
Azimuth 185.1
I am new member and new to this stuff. I am trying to get FTA channels on 97W. I am think I am lined up because my satfinder is squaking very loud, but I am not getting any quality on reveiver. Is there a setting I need to adjust on the receiver? Help?
I adjusted my elevation on the dish to 38 and my compass direction show the 185. My zipcode is 55125. Not sure if there is a frequency setting I need to set on the recevier etc. Help.
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Make sure that your receiver is set to a LO freq of 10750, and not Universal. Look in Lyngsat, and find one of the
Globecast transponders, and set your receiver on that. I'm not familiar with your receiver, but usually there will be a transponder scan which will give you a signal and quality meter, or perhaps in the window where you set your LO and other satellite parameters, there may be signal/quality meters, but whichever you use, make sure you are on the proper frequency and SR value for one of the active transponders. Then, it's best to have your TV out at the dish so you can SLOWLY move the dish around looking for a lock or good quality reading. Signal strength isn't very meaningful. If you can't get the TV out there and need to use the hand held meter, the problem is, that you'll get strong readings from DBS satellites, like the
DTV sat at 101 degrees, or the Nimiq sat at 91. Set your hand held meter to mid scale so you can see it increase when you get near a sat. I'd look for the 2 strong signals, then look for a weaker peak in between those two. It's usually very easy to find the DBS sats, and you can use those to help find the linear sats.