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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf
An additional as to alignment. Perhaps a poor choice of word. You can hit a sat with a 4DTV receiver and have a beautiful picture along with decent readings. When you switch to the DVB receiver using the same dish and settings you can have nothing at all. If you peak the 4DTV receiver using the DVB receiver as your "meter" you will / should have both 4DTV channels & the DVB FTA that is available. Also keep in mind the DVB receivers are touchy when compared to a big dish receiver. You have a tendancy to land in a different spot depending on which side you are coming from and on the bigger dishes this can amount to quite a bit for a DVB FTA receiver to deal with which is why I recommend dialing in with the DBV receiver.
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I think what you're describing here is comparing tuning via signal meter vs via quality. If you've aimed the 4dtv via an analog signal using signal meter, then I agree that there can be a variation is where the sweet spot is since signal will be coming from sources other than the channel you're watching. Same thing with a DVB signal if you just look at signal, however if you tune via quality you're just looking at signal from the transponder in question, and this will generally do a better job than an analog signal meter.
I've found, however, that if I tune via a DCII channel, that I get more accuracy than if I tune via the DVB receivers, just because the meters on the DCII receivers are better than the meters on the various DVB receivers I have. I wish that the DVB receivers had better meters. Virtually all the receivers I have (except the
Mercury), have meters that are very slow responding, and seem to not have much resolution (ie when you improve signal slightly they tend to jump from 50 ot 70, or something like that, with nothing in between). The Mercury seems to have faster response, but it just tends to jump around a lot, and is almost unuseable because it's changing so much, and as has been pointed out by others, in some menus the meters don't even register sometimes.