I recently bought a satcruiser 101P for FTA content, but I am having difficulty finding anything in the sky with it. I should mention that I have dish network, and I have setup the three dishes without too much difficulty in the past, so this isn't my first time pointing a dish around the sky for hours.
I started with an old dish network mount that I have on the side of the house that points south and is perfectly level. I have a perfectly clear view horizon to horizon, so there is no chance my signal is getting blocked. I mounted the 36 inch dish with the LNB that came with satcruiser on top of the
HH120 mount. I calculated the angles and the
satellite dish appeared to pointing to the clark belt. I searched the skies back and forth with the
STAB HH120 and kept on decreasing and increasing the elevation and mount orientation (HH120 mount was pointed south with the 8 degree correction required here in VA). I had the reciever set on
Telstar 5 freq 11898 as described in
http://sadoun.com/Sat/Products/Satcruiser/Instruct.htm but that was giving me a signal that was no higer than 29 at any time, and the Q bar never lit up.
After hours of that, I got frustrated and took the HH120 off the pole and just manually searched the sky for another couple of hours. Still nothing better than a 29.
Finally at the end of my rope I decided to hook an old dish network receiver into the dish and lnb I bought from
Sadoun and search the skies with that...still nothing!
I figured the only thing that hadn't been swaped out was the LNB. I found an old LNB from one of the dish network receivers (a dual F-type connector with one LNB antenna that is used for the
dish 500 to receive one satellite on two TVs). I simply held the LNB in place where the LNB that Sadoun shipped me was last mounted, and boom I had echostar in the 110 slot at 97% on the dish network receiver.
So now I mounted the dish LNB to the dish and tightened the screws and then plugged in the satcruiser to search for channels, but all I got was a bunch of "FAIL" messages when I tried to search channels or networks. The signal did get as high as 46, but I could never find anything. I then scanned the skies with the dish network LNB and the satcruiser receiver setup as described in
http://sadoun.com/Sat/Products/Satcruiser/Instruct.htm and again found nothing. I put the dish network receiver back in the loop and looked for other satellites, but all I could find was Nikto 2 (Bell Expressvu 12, or something like that) in the 91 degree slot. I again hooked up the satcruiser when I was locked on that satellite, but the satcruiser still didn't do anything.
I have version R3RAMUSA_B12852A on the Satcruiser 101P, I imagine that is okay, right?
I don't know what else to do other than throw the whole unit in the pond...
Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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