I Doood it.

[Terryl]

OK I did it, I finally broke down an bought a new receiver, needed one with MPEG4.

Just ordered an OpenBox X5, will be back with a report on it when it gets here and I get it installed.

It's going to be a true FTA box so nothing fancy with IKS is needed.

[darlinkat]

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Very nice Terryl
If you're happy, then I'm happy lol

That's it....all I got !!!

[Terryl]

I'm going to have to eat all the left overs, and root through the freezer for eats, but I think I can afford it.

[steven charles]

OK I did it, I finally broke down an bought a new receiver, needed one with MPEG4.

Just ordered an OpenBox X5, will be back with a report on it when it gets here and I get it installed.

It's going to be a true FTA box so nothing fancy with IKS is needed.hey terryl have the openbox 5 receivers come out with a module yet....

[Terryl]

I don't know, but this one is not going to be used for Dish or BEV, but it is 8PSK MPEG-4 capable.(not turbo 8PSK)

[steven charles]

I don't know, but this one is not going to be used for Dish or BEV, but it is 8PSK MPEG-4 capable.(not turbo 8PSK)because i been thinking of getting a newer model but i don,t think they have come out with one,thats the reason i think there that cheap about 100 bucks....

[Terryl]

Mine was 80 smackers, with free shipping.......Costactc would be the guru on this box.

[Costactc]

No modules for this receiver. I'm using mine as well for true fta and it has an extremely fast blind scan. If you had iks in mind you would only be able to open sd channels as there is no turbo on this unit.

[Terryl]

It should be here by tomorrow, I will report back in a few days.

[Costactc]

Night and day from your previous receiver Terryl and linux to boot for easy internet access.

[Terryl]

Been watching the road to see if the UPS truck is on it's way, nice out here today, a comfy 85, light breeze, and a bud light in hand.

Old CS8K reciver did it's job, last thing it did was put the antenna and motor back to the reference point.

This will give me something to do, as the mini bud project was a bust, went all the way up to a 39 inch and got zip, oh well, will keep looking for a 48 or 60 incher as I still have the stuff.

[jvvh5897]

Well, I can say that I like the openbox s16 that I have for true FTA on C band and Ku side as well. I use it to get the Louisiana PBS on one sat, PR mux off of C band with 1.2M dish, and a couple other Ku band sats. I somtimes move the dishes around to see what I'm missing, but tend to end up on the same 4. I did test with a 1M dish for a while on the C band side, but the 1.2M does it better. I keep the coolsat4000 box handy to help me aim dishes, but with out DVB-S2 it pretty much just sets there powered down. Have played with the s16 code to see if I can add beep function and have figured out a number of things about the code--disassembled it, found serial port routine to use to dump stuff out, dumped stack, did a few other test mods, might have a way to get the box to give beeps with Q signal but been working on other stuff.

[darlinkat]

I'm going to have to eat all the left overs, and root through the freezer for eats, but I think I can afford it.



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This should keep your strength up Terryl
Oh yes and something to wash those cookie sandwiches down lol

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[Terryl]

Ahhh MAN that looks good, now where did I put that mixing bowl?????


What is between the cookies??

[darlinkat]

Ice cream baby

The real homemade French vanilla
4 ingredients...mostly cream...little milk...vanilla and a pinch of sugar
Lil girl's fav vanilla recipe

[Costactc]

Good thing you got the X5 Terryl, the s16 was plugged in for about 5 minutes before I discarded it to my trash pile.

[Terryl]

A bit of a disappointment, UPS did not show up yesterday, went back and checked the order, it looks like they shipped via FEDx, and some sort of dingbat type of FEDx service at that.

It went from LA to Sacramento in one day, (somewhat close to me) then to some type of FEDx post service, it will then go via US postal service to me, but it wont get here till Monday.


WTF why didn't they just go with UPS or the USPS, a full week to go 450 miles, are they kidding me, next time I order from them I will specify USPS, they get it here on time and by the way I order it to be shipped.

[darlinkat]

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Oh noooo Terryl
All the way till Monday
That sucks !!!!

[Terryl]

OK I got it early but HELP........I may have FUBAR'ed something as it wont turn on after it did the software upgrade via network.......


HELP anyone on this...

[Costactc]

I have never had an issue with new firmware but always upgraded via usb. There are specific sites for your receiver, I'm sure you will be able to find a recovery file if needed:


http://www.openboxforum.com/



http://eyeboxforum.com/


The latter is the eyebox forum, my unit was an eyebox receiver when I received it.

[Terryl]

OK got it, it wasn't the software, but the way it now works after the upgrade.

I was using the RBG outputs, when the upgrade was done it changed the output format of the RGB to some type of European/Asian format, that is incompatible with an NTSC TV, during my long night I just so happened to try the HDMI feed from my blueRay and ""BOINK"" I got a picture.

WOW was I releaved.

The only big problem I have now is that there was no US satellites in the data base, I had to download some channel DB from that site you posted Costa, now for a gruling cleanup and re-editing of that DB, as it looks to be an old one, and quite a few transponders are missing or wrong.

Oh well I have nothing to do this week as it's a bit too hot to play outside. (106 F yesterday)

All I have to do now is figure out how to see if the DVB-S2 8PSK settings for the new transponders are working.

[Costactc]

The X5 will tell you exactly what your watching Terryl just by hitting the info button. I have a special tv just for some of these receivers that go to PAL after an upgrade- first time it happened to me I thought I had bricked my new receiver.

[Terryl]

Any idea on where to find a good TP listing for NA satellites???

Having problems finding channels on 125W.

[jvvh5897]

I use blind scan to find TPs. But on the s16 I have had to add the satellite info for all the sats I point at. I also had to specially modify the entries in the channel list to be able to get all the PR/VI mux on C band 99 degree sat--it could not find the ABC or Fox channels when they went HD even though the TP was still DVB-S.

[Costactc]

Any idea on where to find a good TP listing for NA satellites???

Having problems finding channels on 125W.

I can send you my tp and channel list but it's for c band, at least it's a start. You can edit and delete as you go. I have to agree with jvvh5897, I like to start from scratch and blind scan in all my channels and tp.

[Terryl]

I found a channels list that is very close to what I need, a little editing and im setup.

Costa, (or anyone) do you have any signal on the 12180 TP on 125W??

I get zip on that one, and it looks like I am in the footprint for the Claro TV transponders, they are nice and strong here.

[iq180]

I found a channels list that is very close to what I need, a little editing and im setup.

Costa, (or anyone) do you have any signal on the 12180 TP on 125W??

I get zip on that one, and it looks like I am in the footprint for the Claro TV transponders, they are nice and strong here.

I have nothing on that TP, but I do have Montana PBS on TP=12106 sr 2398 V 2/3 DVB-S2/QPSK.

[Peachseed]

SAT=125.0W AMC21 KU
FQ 12180/29995/V 7CHs
FQ 12105/2399/V 1CH
OPENBOX X5
10' dish

C band
FQ 3759 H SR 19886 2chs TV home shopping
FQ 3719 H SR 26663 15 TBN CHs

ALL Satellite
1661 ALL Channels SC & CLEAR So far. Still scanning...
No dish or direct or CA satellites.

[Terryl]

OK I'm getting PO'ed at this piece of junk, during a channel scan it said "Moving antenna" I go WHAT???


Then all channels and sats I had programmed in and scanned quit working, I went to my main bird (121W) and tried and tried to find some-sort of signal on that one (TP12016V, channel 9584 is in the open) I got zip.

So I went out an looked at the dish, something slammed the dish motor full West, and now I have to go round up some help to drop it to do a hardware reset of the East/West limits.

I do not understand what happened, all I was doing was scanning channels on 97W, is the software that touchy? Or is there a motor bug???

[Peachseed]

Yes. Setup East - West limits first. I did that 2 times before. The satellite list that you downloaded put satellite positions into your receiver that do not agree with your actuator. The first time it went west witch wasn't to bad but the second time it went east and bent my actuator.

[Terryl]

Can you elaborate on how to do this??

This is a new box to me.

[iq180]

LOL, you broke my first rule for a new sat receiver, never load a CH list or a sat list, if its not in the firmware update don't load it,
make you own list, add one sat then scan it then add another and scan it, its the only way not to have a bunch of crap & problems.
next you need to get C band up on your receiver, sat 91.0w C band has 5 CW CHs in HD, NAT GEO, Reelz CH, Plum TV CH & 41
music CHs, all are ITC.

[Terryl]

I don't need "C" band as the mini bud project is in the dust bin, I need a 4 to 6 foot dish to start that back up.

The big problem with the adding of sats is that none of the starting sats in the box were even close to the North American sats, it would have been a very long job to do 19 satellites and all the TP's involved.

I wish they had a software update just for this side of the planet that had the North American birds, and most of the members on that site you mentioned Costa are on the other side, also after posting several questions and asking for help, I got absolutely no reply's to my posts.

Next time I have to do an update (for what reason I don't know yet) I will disconnect the coax to the motor, (use the feed from the non motorized LNB) dump the motor limits and reset.

[jvvh5897]

Would you like to try a DIY C band dish project? I played with the parabolic equations over the winter and have an idea that might just be practical. You make 3 hexagons from 1x2 wood about 4 foot across and join them at the center with a certain tilt between center and outside edge--as long as you only want to work C band with it I think the tolerances will be OK--reflector surface is either AL screening or construction mesh (about 1/2 inch between wires). The idea is half way between a spherical reflector concept and the strained beam dish--read pdfs on a couple of projects. And you only need simple tools--been playing with the idea of prototyping with cardboard "beams" so that would require even simpler tools.

[Costactc]

As long and as tedious it is to set up your own sat list, it's the way to do it so you know it's right.

[iq180]

Hmmmm, will the openbox s16 sat list work on the X5, that mite be something to look at,LOL.

[Terryl]

Well I got help to drop the mast, and found it had jammed so hard full west that the motor was froze up, I had to take it apart and free the gears, once I did that I used the old CS 5000 to test it out and reset it to center at121W.

I then went back to the openbox and did a factory reset, then dumped every satellite in the data base, I have been making my own list starting at 61W and working West, when I got to 121W I did a test, added the 12016 transponder to it and it found the satellite just fine, I had to toggle it a bit but it found the right bird.

Questions, what is the Tone A and Tone B for in the sat settings, and how do you toggle the motor in USALS mode to tweak it???

[Terryl]

OK, new problem.

It quit again, but this time it's stuck on 121, the motor looks to be frozen, as I tested it with the 5000, and it doesn't move, oh well it may be time for a new one......Great......

[iq180]

what kind of a motor is it? can you clean and oil it?
I think you need to find an old 7 & 1/2 bud, I don't know what part of the world you are in but I have an extra 7 & 1/2 bud a tester can get for free that the junk man cant buy.LOL.

[Terryl]

It's an SG2100, but it been up there quite a long time.

If I can get a hold of my friend again, I will have him hold the reset buttons wile I hit the DC power, this will do a master reset, if that doesn't work then is dropping the mast time again.

Unfortunately on the 7 1/2 footer the only place that will clear the top of the hills out in front of the dish is where the 39" dish and motor are mounted now, those hills would block the view of satellites at 100 to 90 East.

The other good spot is were my 110/119/129 dish is mounted for my Dish service, but that is out.

I would have to go with a 3" pipe about 25 feet up just to clear the roof at that point.

There are other locations but too far from the house to do any good, and I don't have the resources to do a fiber run from the back 40, and I don't want to build a shack out back to just watch satellite.

Here is what I have to work with.
18622

18623

There is a field to the right, but with livestock to worry about, and those pesky hills in the way (hummmm bulldozer and dynamite time??) it would be on at least a 25 to 30 foot pipe.

That is why I was looking for a 48 to 60 inch, I could get a 48" up on the existing mast and just use a stronger motor, I would have to replace the mast to use any thing bigger.

What it is now is a 10 foot piece of 2" ridged conduit for the base with a 2" to 1 1/2" bell reducer and a 5 foot piece of 1 1/2" ridged conduit for the mount to sit on, all held in place with my custom wall mount.

[Costactc]

Well I got help to drop the mast, and found it had jammed so hard full west that the motor was froze up, I had to take it apart and free the gears, once I did that I used the old CS 5000 to test it out and reset it to center at121W.

I then went back to the openbox and did a factory reset, then dumped every satellite in the data base, I have been making my own list starting at 61W and working West, when I got to 121W I did a test, added the 12016 transponder to it and it found the satellite just fine, I had to toggle it a bit but it found the right bird.

Questions, what is the Tone A and Tone B for in the sat settings, and how do you toggle the motor in USALS mode to tweak it???

I have totally disregarded tone a and b, doesn't make a diff for me and I haven't used usals or 1.2 in years. Did you get a chance to scan in any Mpeg4 channels yet?

[iq180]

It's an SG2100, but it been up there quite a long time.

If I can get a hold of my friend again, I will have him hold the reset buttons wile I hit the DC power, this will do a master reset, if that doesn't work then is dropping the mast time again.

Unfortunately on the 7 1/2 footer the only place that will clear the top of the hills out in front of the dish is where the 39" dish and motor are mounted now, those hills would block the view of satellites at 100 to 90 East.

The other good spot is were my 110/119/129 dish is mounted for my Dish service, but that is out.

I would have to go with a 3" pipe about 25 feet up just to clear the roof at that point.

There are other locations but too far from the house to do any good, and I don't have the resources to do a fiber run from the back 40, and I don't want to build a shack out back to just watch satellite.

Here is what I have to work with.
18622

18623

There is a field to the right, but with livestock to worry about, and those pesky hills in the way (hummmm bulldozer and dynamite time??) it would be on at least a 25 to 30 foot pipe.

That is why I was looking for a 48 to 60 inch, I could get a 48" up on the existing mast and just use a stronger motor, I would have to replace the mast to use any thing bigger.

What it is now is a 10 foot piece of 2" ridged conduit for the base with a 2" to 1 1/2" bell reducer and a 5 foot piece of 1 1/2" ridged conduit for the mount to sit on, all held in place with my custom wall mount.
you do know that there is a reset button in a small hole near the manual move button or I think there is on that HH motor, just move the dish back to 0 then use a paper clip to push the reset button.

[Terryl]

OK I got it down, and IQ to reset this motor you hold the East/West buttons in at the same time and turn the power on at the receiver. (switch in back)


Got it all apart, cleaned all the old grease out and re-lubed it with some extra special grease I have lying around, (from the old times) then re-tested it and found that the motor controller is FUBAR, I can force it to full West or Full East by the manual buttons, but when I use the test receiver it stops at about an 1/8" travel and goes into a false current overload condition, I then removed the motor so there is no load on it and tried again, !!!NUTS!!!.....It does the same thing.

I have to then do the master reset, so I think what ever did the deed to cause it to go full West popped something in the Diseqc motor controller circuit.

At that conclusion I have ordered a new motor, but one of the beefier SG6100's I can go to a 48" dish with that one.(If I can find a 48" dish for a good price)

As this is the the last time I want to drop that mast, that is until I find a good 48" dish.

[Terryl]

Now back to the OpenBox receiver.

Nice unit, has some good features.

BUT and a big BUT, it should be mentioned on the web sites that sell this box that it comes with all European and Asian satellites, so if your going to use it in North or South America you have to FIRST do some major re-programming of the satellite list.

I am going to contact the suppliers that I got it from and raise hell.

[iq180]

I you are looking for a 48" dish, google sadoun satellite.

[Terryl]

I looked there, they want too much for shipping, this would have to be a local (with in 200 miles) pick up, that's what is taking so long to find one.

[JCO]

Now back to the OpenBox receiver.

Nice unit, has some good features.

BUT and a big BUT, it should be mentioned on the web sites that sell this box that it comes with all European and Asian satellites, so if your going to use it in North or South America you have to FIRST do some major re-programming of the satellite list.

I am going to contact the suppliers that I got it from and raise hell.

Umm have you considered moving to Europe or Asia instead... It may be easier..ROFLMAO

[Terryl]

I have considered (seriously) in moving to Belize, I can live real good there on what little I get now, have a nice place on the beach, or a bit in-land, and they will even allow me you bring my arsenal, as long as I will train their Army for free.

Europe wont have me, I am classified as too violent, and there are still places in Asia I can't go due to certain things.

[JCO]

I have considered (seriously) in moving to Belize, I can live real good there on what little I get now, have a nice place on the beach, or a bit in-land, and they will even allow me you bring my arsenal, as long as I will train their Army for free.

Europe wont have me, I am classified as too violent, and there are still places in Asia I can't go due to certain things.

Nice but you wil still have the sat list problem..LOL

[jvvh5897]

Hmmmm, will the openbox s16 sat list work on the X5, that mite be something to look at,LOL.

I found that the s9 channel list editor sort of works to view the s16's list, but does not save it correctly and can't transfer the info to the box right either from what little I tried to do with it. I ended up building a little routine to parse out the data, then used that to find spots to manually edit PIDs, then saved the channel list and used USB to transfer the file back to box--that after finding and installing a file that allowed one to dump the channel list to USB as the running code that came with the box did not allow one to dump the list. I can provide some notes of what I found as to structure of the s16's list.

[Terryl]

Nice but you wil still have the sat list problem..LOL

Not any more, I spent the better part of last night working on my own list, it's a work in progress as I still have a few transponders to add. (97W is the time consumer)

It will get better once the new motor gets here and I can do some blind scanning of birds. (Satellites that is, birds don't like to be scanned around here, they say it messes up their hair)

[iq180]

Not any more, I spent the better part of last night working on my own list, it's a work in progress as I still have a few transponders to add. (97W is the time consumer)

It will get better once the new motor gets here and I can do some blind scanning of birds. (Satellites that is, birds don't like to be scanned around here, they say it messes up their hair)
all you need to do after you add the sat info is add 1 TP then blind scan, it should find the rest.

[Costactc]

After your done Terryl, I would cross reference with say Lyngsat or other sites to make sure the X5 did scan in all tp, I've noticed that it does miss some.

[Terryl]

I usually do that, and also use satbeams for a cross to Lyngsat, as I find that sometimes it has better infor for some birds.

That motor looked real nice inside, clean not a whole bunch of grease all over, the gears looked great, it's just the controller board that is FUBAR.

Maybe I can find one and fix that motor, later, when I get board, and have nothing else to do.

Till then I will get use to this new box, playing with the DVR and stuff, I like the Google Earth web access, fun looking at all the ancient airports in the Chilean desert.

[Terryl]

Any one know of any other sat TP channel listing site besides those two?

[Costactc]

Try this one Terryl:



http://www.sathint.com/

[iq180]

I usually do that, and also use satbeams for a cross to Lyngsat, as I find that sometimes it has better infor for some birds.

That motor looked real nice inside, clean not a whole bunch of grease all over, the gears looked great, it's just the controller board that is FUBAR.

Maybe I can find one and fix that motor, later, when I get board, and have nothing else to do.

Till then I will get use to this new box, playing with the DVR and stuff, I like the Google Earth web access, fun looking at all the ancient airports in the Chilean desert.
I have an extra H-H SG6000 motor if that will help.

[Terryl]

Ahhh I looked and it seams that I have that one also.

[Terryl]

I have an extra H-H SG6000 motor if that will help.

Thank you for the kind offer, but the new one should be here soon, I can wait, I have dusted off my DVD and BlueRay library, and I do have Dish and OTA to look at, also this web site keeps me out of trouble and from going all cabin fever type thingy.

Also the ground squerrles are trying to get to my almonds, so having fun basting them with the pellet rifle, I'd use the .22 or the .223 and maybe the 12 gauge but the pellet rifle is cheaper, and it gives them a sporting chance.

[iq180]

Ahhh I looked and it seams that I have that one also.

then there is a reset button in a hole to the right of the receiver coax port, you need to power up the motor and push the reset button with a paper clip that mite just fix it.

[Terryl]

No reset hole or button near a hole, on the bottom of this motor you have to hold the East and West manual buttons in with the DC power off, then turn the power on wile still holding the buttons, (not an easy job when it's 25 feet up in the air, that's why I have to drop the mast) you will then get 4 red flashes (or something like that) and a green LED after the reset goes through, you can then release the buttons, this is done better with the motor in a vice so you can use one hand to do the reset, and the other to power up the receiver.


All this failed as the motor will lock up as soon as you try to control it through the receivers motor menu East West buttons.

It works OK if you use the manual buttons on the motor, (after a reset) so that is why I think the Diseqc motor controller board is shot.

I have cleared all limits in the receiver just to be sure.

[iq180]

ok I have never seen a SG6000 that didn't have the reset hole, but here is something to look at, this is why I have an extra SG6000,
if the 2 nuts on the coax ports are loose the motor will lock up and do stupid things,LOL.

[Terryl]

OK now I am realy pissed off, the place I ordered the motor from just sent an E-mail saying that the motor is out of stock, I sent them an E-mail back saying ARE you kidding me!!

[iq180]

I have one if you want it, send me a pm.

[Terryl]

I have one if you want it, send me a pm.

Thanks again IQ but I have one on it's way from someone that had it in stock, I guess it does pay to call in the order.



Oh and Costa, that openbox site is full of wankers, I made a suggestion on that there should be a North American satellites data base for this side of the globe and they get all bent out of shape.

You would think that if they are going to sell it over here they would have it capable of a quick setup for over here.

How many mebers do we have here that can figure out how to use the boxes we use here, let alone have them try and add a new satellite and transponder to a new box.

It may look very easy to us, (it was for me once I found out how it works) but we have been at this for a long time, most are looking for a plug and play approach to satellite receivers, kids it's not so.

[Costactc]

Don't spend any time on those sites Terryl, just thought they would have more info. I didn't realise they were wankers.

[Terryl]

Costa have you (or anyone else) used this box with an H to H motor?


Just want to make sure I don't FUBAR the new one.

[Costactc]

I haven't used an H to H motor in at least 2 years, mine is collecting dust in the basement- sorry Terryl only with stand alone positioners and jacks.

[Terryl]

OK got the new one, but having problems finding birds, I thought it would be a drop in and go, but it doesn't look like it, I have rigged up and pulley and rope system to raise and lower the mast using one of the quads, that way I don't need the second guy around, all they do is drink all my beer.

The elevation settings look to be exactly the same as the old motor, looks like I have to put everything back on the ground level test stand to see whats up with what.....Oh welll, nothing else to do this week......I think...

[hondoharry]

My Openbox S10 has the western sats with the Skybox bin loaded from here. I'm surprised they don't have bins like that for all their boxes.

[Terryl]

HOOOOOO RRRAAAAAHHH

Success, the new motor is up and running, though it took some adjusting on the ground test bed to do so.

The OpenBox works great, now that the motor does, put a universal LNB on the dish as I don't need that one for the Dish and BEV satellites anymore.

I love the blind scan on it, find one active TP and do a scan and "POP" up comes the channels.

On 125W I now have the 8PSK DVB-S2 HD PBS feeds, picture quality is as good as the old CS8K, it also found the Claro TV channels on that bird,(scrambled) looks like I am in that foot print.

Now for some playing around in the Clark belt.

Man what a job this was.

[Terryl]

My Openbox S10 has the western sats with the Skybox bin loaded from here. I'm surprised they don't have bins like that for all their boxes.

This one comes right out of the box with the European and Asian satellite lists in it, also a few Atlantic birds.

A word to anyone trying out one of these boxes with a motor, DON'T until you get rid of all the Eastern satellite's out of the list, it may slam your motor hard over like mine did.

Use your old box to find and set your motor to it's DUE South bird and shut down on it.

Then enter your USALS co-ordinates via the Google Earth app in the box,( a great idea) then add your DUE South bird and one of it's active transponders into the receiver, and delete all others that you find, get a lock on the due South bird (with out the motor enabled) and do a channel scan, then enable the motor, and do some entering of the satellites and transponders manually.

I highly advise anyone to not download the North American channels (and birds) data base from the OpenBox web site, that is what caused all my heartache and loss of hair. (and a new motor)

[jvvh5897]

You might find that the openbox has better low signal pull-in too.

[Terryl]

You might find that the openbox has better low signal pull-in too.


Yes I agree, it looks to have about a 6 dB improvement over the CoolSat.

OK I have every bird that I can see at my location, I wish the Mammoth Mountain was not in the way, maybe I could plan to move it, then I can scan further East.

[jvvh5897]

Well, you could put the dish up on a really, really big mast. I'm still figuring out how to get something up near low earth orbit--that would help me in a number of ways. Oh, no, did I just trip a NSA watch word?

[Terryl]

Well one day Mammoth will erupt, and if I'm lucky and not under several hundred feet of hot lava I will have a clean shot further East, till then I'm stuck with just 61W.

I am trying for some of those over the pacific, one has a West coast beam (166E) and have been trying for it the last few days.

[Terryl]

Or until I get a "C" band setup.

[bkr™]

Wow that far north (Mammoth) and hitting 125°w Claro. What size dish you using? Here the standard is 1.2M for both 50°w Claro and 125°w Claro. The S-10 works excellent for these.

[hondoharry]

Wow that far north (Mammoth) and hitting 125°w Claro. What size dish you using? Here the standard is 1.2M for both 50°w Claro and 125°w Claro. The S-10 works excellent for these.

In Honduras we get those with a 0.90m Sky dish.

[Terryl]

A 1 meter dish on a motor, it looks like I'm well inside the footprint for that sat.


125W in Honduras????? On a .9 meter dish???

Satbeams shows a 48 inch minimum.


http://www.satbeams.com/footprints?norad=33275

[hondoharry]

A 1 meter dish on a motor, it looks like I'm well inside the footprint for that sat.


125W in Honduras????? On a .9 meter dish???

Satbeams shows a 48 inch minimum.


http://www.satbeams.com/footprints?norad=33275

Footprint maps are not very accurate in fringe areas. We get 129 with a 1.8m and the footprint maps say much bigger needed. With a 1.8m, 72.7 has good signal on the mainland and not watchable on Roatan 100 mi. to the NE. Sky supplies 0.90 dishes and Claro 50 uses 1.2m but I got Claro 125 just fine with the Sky 0.90m dish. It won't pick up the PBS channels on the US beam but the 1.8m dish will.

That 48 inch min. is for the 50 states beam. Claro is on the Caribbean beam and shows a 28" (0.70m) dish min. in my area.