pansat pm900, winegard 76cm offset dish and universal LNB

kball · #1 (**permalink**) 05-05-2005, 11:57 AM

pansat pm900 & winegard mounted on plumb pole on side of house. I set its elevation to 32.6 per its manual and the dish elevation to 25 per the same fine manual. Iam at 117.2 longitude and 32.7 latitude. My true south satellite is satmex 5 at 116.8 longitude. Based on this I have taken the motor offline after zeroing it out and making sure the dish is in line with the motors arm. Then I have moved the whole assembly to 166 on my compass (179.3 minus 13) and fixed it there. I hooked up the motor and very slowly moved it from 0 to farthest east and back to farthest west I can only pickup the faint satmex 5 with my meter. I dont think Iam in the clarke belt just yet, wouldnt I be seeing more signals? Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance. I need to include that I have been able to set the dish itself to several satellites but not since I have added the motor.

kball · #2 (**permalink**) 05-06-2005, 03:11 PM

I have this card, it does work. Iam using ProgDVB with the diseqcU plugin and it does indeed drive the dish and goes to X but still no signal.

Doesnt anyone have a suggestion to help? What am I missing, or is it just trial and error until I get into sats?

kball · #3 (**permalink**) 05-09-2005, 04:44 PM

I found out that my problem surrounds the 22khz tone that moves the motor. When the receiver sends it to the lnb to switch to the higher freq, it moves the motor. I have to change to a standard lnb that operates at 10750.

Admin · #4 (**permalink**) 05-09-2005, 07:19 PM

Most likely your LNBF settings in your receiver were off. We use and sell UNIVERSAL lnbf with HH Motor all the time without any problems.

kball · #5 (**permalink**) 05-10-2005, 10:08 AM

That was a good idea, and I checked what I had in there and the lof was set to 10750, power on, satmex 5, nothing for high lof, and nothing for switch. I also think when I moved the motor, the same tone would switch the lnbf to the high range so it would not detect the low range transponder I was looking for. I was told that all american satillites have a lof of 10750 which requires a standard lnbf, that European sats use the dual freq level universal lnbfs. I dont know how accurate that is...but I do know that when the motor moved my signal finder lit up its 22khz light and screeched for the duration until it stopped.

vj9999 · #6 (**permalink**) 05-10-2005, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by kball

That was a good idea, and I checked what I had in there and the lof was set to 10750, power on, satmex 5, nothing for high lof, and nothing for switch. I also think when I moved the motor, the same tone would switch the lnbf to the high range so it would not detect the low range transponder I was looking for. I was told that all american satillites have a lof of 10750 which requires a standard lnbf, that European sats use the dual freq level universal lnbfs. I dont know how accurate that is...but I do know that when the motor moved my signal finder lit up its 22khz light and screeched for the duration until it stopped.

That is the good thing about the Universal LNBF. It will get you lower European frequencies and the higher ones used over here. Dual meas that it can choose input frequency from 9750/10600 which means it covers frequencies from 10700 to 12750.

kball · #7 (**permalink**) 05-11-2005, 12:49 PM

There are very few europeon birds I can get from the west coast of the us, so having a standard is a better fit. I have followed all the samples and examples on this site, which are excellent I must add, but I still do not seem to get a strong enough signal with the dish on the pm900. What am I doing wrong or missing. I have used the instructions for the Satcontrol motor because it includes the pm900, they look identical actually.

kball · #8 (**permalink**) 05-12-2005, 11:42 AM

Ok, I was told that the setting of the motor is elevation and the setting of the dish is declination. I was told to set the dish to 25 and lock it down, and loosen up the motor so I could use its adjustment to get my southern most sat first and then lock it down. After that go east or west and I should be on the arc, if I need to adjust the sats on the east or west I was to use the dish setting but only at a tiny change to tune them. How does this sound?

kball · #9 (**permalink**) 05-13-2005, 10:21 AM

I followed the advice of The Dish Doctor who is local to me and it worked! I now have satmex 5 my south most sat and Telsat 5 and channels from both. I now have to fine tune for the east and the west of the arc and I will be all finished. This is for the Pansat motor and a winegard 76cm offset dish with a standard lnb.

Admin · #10 (**permalink**) 05-13-2005, 11:55 AM

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