[wejones]

Originally Posted by Scroll

I'm confused re why now you say that you "might" be pointed at Anik F1?

My confusion stems from not being up to date with the difference between F1 & F1/C. When I was a subscriber there was only the one F1 so I missed out on the progression.

All I know for sure is it's one of those and that the Motorola is locked on with good signal strength.

Perhaps the issue is with my lnbf? It is integrated for 2 position (F1 & F2) plus 4 outputs. I'm tempted to see if maybe the Primestar arm can just bolt to that dish and see what happens with the Primestar lnbf but I get the feeling it isn't that simple.

I'm not sure what you're referring to re "F1 & F1/C" Ie there is an Anik F1, and an Anik F1r, which replaces F1, and would be invisible to the viewers. I'm curious where you saw the F1/C ? I'm guessing that your Orasat receiver may have referred to that??? If so, it is probably just referring to the C-band side of this sat, not that it's a different sat.
Another possibility is that the "C" refers to circular. Some of the new sats, like Anik F3 can be either linear or circular. I don't know whether F1r has circular capability or not. I didn't think so, but I guess it's possible.


But on to the other issues, re aiming. If your dish is a dual sat dish, then I have no idea of how it's configured. Ie with dual sat dishnet or DTV dishes, they usually use things like 22khz to switch between the two sats, but I don't think Motorola has 22khz capability, although I may be wrong. But I'd assume that you are aimed at both F1r and F2 , and there is some way that the motorola is switching between the two. If your motorola has two coaxes going into it, it may be feeding one sat into the C-band side and the other into the Ku side, even though both are Ku. (Again, I'm not sure what model Motorola you have, but some of this type receivers have 2 switched inputs.) If that's the case, ie 2 coaxes, then you'd get one sat from one coax, and the other from the other coax, but I'm just guessing.

Hopefully there is someone here experienced with StarChoice hardware. I am not.

I'm not sure why you would want to put a Primestar arm on the StarChoice dish. That cannot work, because the focal lengths are probably different, and I don't know why you'd want to do that anyway, since your StarChoice dish is obviously already working. Why change something that's working??? Just play with the Primestar dish on the ground. I have my Primestar dish attached to the side of a big log, so I can move it around.