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Originally Posted by Bibbler
Agree Bill.... If everything is aligned correctly, the USALS ought to get you really close (as you rightly mention, within a fraction of a degree)....
In my case, I can verify that this is the case with the Lifetime and the MII.
My point was, I believe the guy was watching one sat - and he said he moved the dish using USALS and it was tracking the arc correctly except for 1 Sat.
Doesn't make sense. The USALS has to be working correctly. Either the dish is slightly out of alignment or there is a tree in the way.
I'm going to guess that either the dish is out (in which case all signals will come up, notice he only has a Max reading in the 60s), or he has a case of bend LNB arm (remember that one Bill??  ) , or he simply has the coordinates for the sat entered incorrectly....
It doesn't appear that the fault is with the USALS or the receiver. |
OK. I was kind of forgetting/ignoring the original post, since it was about 95% likely from someone pirating Dishnet, since he was talking about Dishnet freqs and circular LO freqs, and sats that had network info popping up.
But you're right, that if USALS is working for a few sats, it should work for all, particularly for the DBS things the guy was likely looking at.
USALS works fairly well for me if I subtract a degree or two from my actual longitude, which corresponds to how much the Zero position is off on my motor.
Speaking of one sat being possibly blocked by a tree. Yesterday, I decided to go to a sat that I don't often go to, because it only has one signal, which is a DCII signal I rarely watch. Tried to go there yesterday with my big dish, but the signal wouldn't come in. Then I remembered a pine tree was growing up right around where that sat would be, so I switched to my 90CM figuring that if the big dish was blocked, surely the 90CM would see it, But I couldn't find the signal with it either. I was using USALS to get me in the ballpark, then moving the dish around in little steps. Finally decided to get out of my recliner and went outside, and another pine tree was blocking that same sat, and only that sat, with my little dish. So I guess I don't get to see that sat for a while.... until my wife lets me cut down one of those trees. Either that or until I move my 90CM to a more open spot. But USALS WAS taking me to the right spot. I ran a spectrum scan, and could see the transponder I was looking for, but it wasn't quite strong enough to lock. Although I may try again going directly to my DCII receiver instead of being the 4th receiver in my chain of slaved receivers.