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Old 09-27-2007, 06:50 PM
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Hispasat, by Luck

I finally got it!!

Ever since I got my MercuryII and my 90 Fortec w/SG2100. I never could get Hispasat!!
Very strange. Even with factory resets and with the new firmware upgrades.

If I was setting on G25 and hit the Hispasat sat, the dish would not move. No matter what bird I was on it would not move to that bird and a few others to the far East! It would just set still and act as if it has moved! I even check for the correct position in the menu to confirm to be correct!

So anybody as far as East Oklahoma should be able to pick up Hispasat on a 36" dish (with a clean line of sight of course).

Now to figure out the other birds... I hit I think it was 45 or 45.5 degree bird and it goes to Echo's 61.5 bird... I don't really know why the far East birds the MercuryII does not want to move for!! I think the furthest that it will move and find (besides Hispasat now) is somewhere around 50 degrees birds. So from around 50 to the far west (don't remember the farest) I have no problem.

The way I got it was to change from USALs to DiSEqC then do a East move untill I came upon a channel which by chance was Hispasat satellite..
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