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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf
I go with alignment. Are you using USALS or the "bump the dish" kind of setup? Being in FL 123 would be out on the west and of your arc thus more sensitive to alignment than the center sats. 121 is also an Echo bird so it may have been 121 and not 119 you got. Do not know. At this point I would go back to basics. move to yoru south sat, set the receiver up for USALS and tell it to go to the south sat. Peak this sat using only movement on the mast and dish elevation. Now go out to the furthest east and west sats doing the push up pull down test. If opposite results move the assembly on the mast in the direction of the push up signal stronger. If they match you are centered.
Once you have the south sat properly centered it is a matter of deish elevation and motor elevation. If you do not have full arc try lowering the dish elevation a degree and raising the motor a degree. How did that work? Worse then go the opposite way. Raise the dish a degree and lower the motor a degree. Keep working at it this way until you have the entire arc.
If you are not properly on south sat you will never get it all. If you are tying to cheat by "bumping" the dish you will have continual problems. Check your mast. I do not know how you have yours mounted but I have seen more than a few of the DN style mounts slip especially during a storm.
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First, he said he was receiving the 12253 Miami mux. Ie can't be 121. But whatever... if he is tracking from 30 to 119, he is certainly not off much on alignment, unless in his attempts to find 123 he's changed his settings. If he's getting 117 and 119, he surely should be getting close enough to 123 to have seen it with what he tried, unless he has some setting messed up in the receiver. And as far as the "bump the dish kind of setup", that is superior to USALS, but it is certainly not as user friendly, and mistakes can be made. If one is lost, finding a sat, USALS is the best way to get close, but DiseqC1.2 is the best way to be right on, once you find it.