Last Saturday I drove 100 miles and purchased a sardoun system. Been wanting to see what's up on FTA. It is a
Mercury II, with a 90cm dish and DG280B and a quad circular and linear feed invicom
QPH-031 LNBF. I have a 4 year degree in electrical engineering have tried EVERYTHING and I cannot get the bottom signal to show. The top signal shows 40% for ANY LNBF I plug into the receiver. Even with no dish and feedhorn pointing at the ground. (tried an old direct-tv feed) The inexpensive meter that came with seems to know that there are birds up there when I move the dish. But it acts wierd. When I turn the knob it picks up something so I reduce the gain a little and then move the dish and the signal is very iffy and drops out. But I tried the method where you tell the dish to move to say galaxy 25@97 deg and the transponder suggested by the how to ...then tried moving the dish around from there. ABSOLUTELY never any signal.. I have no way to tell if this is a bad LNB or receiver or both.
The receiver didn't have a warranty card and neither did the LNB. I wonder shouldn't I have one? Tried calling today at noon time but sardoun couldn't talk much & was "busy with customers". I was the only customer saturday around 11:00 am for about an hour I was there. Brent couldn't get any of his systems to work there either. Said their dish was blown around by storms.
Was really looking forward to getting this going. Not sure where to go from here. Spent hours and hours Sunday and all evening tonite with a little tv in the back yard. And got nothing but VERY FRUSTRATED.
First time I purchased anything from Sardoun.