Fail to set your program!

[mach1sc]

ok i am new to this. i have vp1020 and 36" dish with fortec fsku-v (Universal LNBF) is pointed at galaxy11 all i can get is about 60-80 on signal and it is allways red, quality is allways 0. i can scan one satalite and it starts at tp10 and goes to 11 and does not pick up any programs. i tryed to set wb west 3720 H tp1 101 102. and it always gives me an error message"Fail to set your program!".
help please.

[mach1sc]

ok i see part of it. tp10 and 11 are the only transponders i have over 50%
signal on. so i will try to align dish better.

[mach1sc]

ok i have aimed this dish at several birds and i get up to 80 % on each one but never will the scan feature ever attain a program list from one of them. i am pointed at telstar5 now and have 80 % signal and no quality 0% quality. cant watch any tv or hear any radio. the pre packaged program list for telstar5 was just 9 different hiragliphs none made any sence and edit proved them to be nonesense.

[mach1sc]

ok i thought it may be my opperating system so i took out my xp disk and installed win98se on a new drive and i still get 80% signal and no quality and no programming. does anybody know why such a good signal and no quality?????????????????????

[bobkat]

Does the card allow you to set local oscillator frequency for the LNB ? If so, select 10,600 MHz since you are using a universal lnb.

kat

[mach1sc]

ok i am finally getting some quality on meter. i just installed the directx 9a drivers. i guess that must be the key to getting card to turn signal into quality reading. thanks for reply bobkat, it is adjustable however it has been set to that all along. i will realign dish tomorrow and i think i will get a picture now.

[mach1sc]

ok this VisionPlus VP-DTV FTA System just does not work and i am going to return it. sometimes seldom when i open s/w it will get quality,never very much and a weak signal 12% max usually and up to 4% quality. but most of the time when i open s/w it gets 60%-80% signal and 0% quality.
i have tryed several different satellites, win98se and xp opperating systems.
thanks for the help bobkat.

[bobkat]

You're welcome - but I didn't do much to help. Too bad that card won't fly I am going to try one out soon; will let you guys know how I make out.

kat

[bobkat]

OK fellow geeks !!!

I just bought me one of them PCI cards and got it flying no problems. I noticed however that the signal strength and quality indicators don't work right. I connected my T5 dish coax to the card and configured the transponders properly; however it showed weak signal and zero quality !! :?: I know the dish is aligned to T5 so there HAD to be signal at the card IF input. So I did a "SCAN ONE SATELLITE" anyway and sure enough it downloaded all the channels on T5. The weird thing is -- after I watched a few channels and came back to the configuration screen it showed good signal strength and quality -- both green!! So that's really weird. The drawback is there is no way to align a dish using this card since it doesn't seem to lock onto the signal until AFTER you download; so you would need to align the dish first using a receiver or signal meter and THEN connect it to the PCI card.....

But the card works quite well and picture quality is good.

My next quest is to try to tune in ExpressVu's Nimiq 91 and Nimiq 82 birds -- thing is, I forget what the L.O. frequency is for the LNB; it would be the same as for DishNetwork but I don't know what that is either !! :cry: Plus, I can't seem to find out where to configure the card for circular polarity. Hmmmmm.....

kat

[bobkat]

Got it -- 11,250 MHz for both L.O. frequencies

:wink:

kat

Another thing -- it appears this card does not recognize an SW21 switch; hmmm.....