Mercury II slaved to 4DTV

[mreaves53]

I have a Mercury II I just bought and installed. I have several questions about tweaking the system.

1. Do I leave the 4DTV receiver on? If not does it matter if I leave the receiver on V or H?

2. In the antenna setup, what setting do I use for the lnb?

3. On several channels I have maped, I have the Dobly Digital icon on the satellite banner, I do not receive any sound, any ideas why not?

I have been using C-band since 1989, but I am new to FTA. I plan to add a corotator and Ku band next weekend.

Thanks,

10' dish, Motorola DSR 922, Motorola HDD 200, Fortec Mercury II and a 42" Hitachi plasma in beautiful East Central Al.

[rainman]

Originally Posted by mreaves53

I have a Mercury II I just bought and installed. I have several questions about tweaking the system.

1. Do I leave the 4DTV receiver on? If not does it matter if I leave the receiver on V or H?

2. In the antenna setup, what setting do I use for the lnb?

3. On several channels I have maped, I have the Dobly Digital icon on the satellite banner, I do not receive any sound, any ideas why not?

I have been using C-band since 1989, but I am new to FTA. I plan to add a corotator and Ku band next weekend.

Thanks,

10' dish, Motorola DSR 922, Motorola HDD 200, Fortec Mercury II and a 42" Hitachi plasma in beautiful East Central Al.

1. yes you leave the 4dtv receiver on as it controls the polarity.

2. set the lnb to on. and for c band it should be set to 5150 LO.

3. these are ac3 channels will need to run an optical cable from the mercury to a ac3 decoder I use my koss surround sound to the decode it and it works fine.

[wejones]

Originally Posted by rainman

1. yes you leave the 4dtv receiver on as it controls the polarity.

Correct, but an additional comment.
Most analog/DCII subscription receivers like the 4dtv and receivers with VCII stay on when you turn them off, ie you'll still get power to the LNB, and initially it will keep the same polarity. However the problem is that these receivers will try to tune to a subscription channel whenever you turn it off. I know if I turn off my Drake 1824, and am on a satellite which doesn't have a VCII channel, after I turn it off, it will stay on the channel (ie polarity) that I left it on for a while, but after several minutes it will start a search, changing channels, looking for a VCII channel. If you were tuning a FTA channel on your slaved Mercury, it would work OK for a while, then it would start going on and off as it changed polarity. Actually, I think with the 4DTV, it might even try to change satellites.
So yes, leave it on. You're not saving any power since it is really still on when turned off anyway.