set up 1000.2

[donster]

Does anyone know how to see transponder #'s on a dreamlink??

[PMP]

Hit Info twice.

[donster]

Where? I tried in menu-dish settings- and nothing. Cannot find transponders.

[edgarr]

Where? I tried in menu-dish settings- and nothing. Cannot find transponders.

Did you do a factory reset after loading the firmware and then reboot with the switch on back of receiver

[PMP]

No factory reset needed.

What are you trying to do exactly?

As far as viewing what transponder number is associated with a channel, lets choose CNN for example which is 9436. Go to that channel, hit info twice. The information listed in the bottom left hand corner is the transponder associated with this channel. Or, you can go menu<channel list<edit channels<sorting(red button)<Sort by TP>. Tp's will be listed next to all the channels.

This allows you as requested to 'see' the transponder.

Pretty straight forward.

[donster]

Thanks I got it now. Am Trying to set up 1000.2 dish and a member said to go to transponders for each bird set up.

[PMP]

That doesn't sound right to me but hopefully someone with 1000.2 dish experience will come along and help you with that.

[Terryl]

To properly setup a Dish 1000 you need to know where to point the dish, dishpointer.com will do this.

But to find the centering satellite (119W) you need to change the default transponder on your receiver to 12457R, this is a CONUS transponder, the default one is 12224R, that is a spot beam and may not be active in your area.

The 12457R transponder has one open to all channel on it (Dish 101) this will help you tweak the dish for the best "Q" on 119, once this is done you can lock the elevation and direction adjustments down, then you have to adjust the skew (rotating the dish clockwise or counter clockwise like a steering wheel on a car) dishpointer will give this info, you adjust the skew very very very slowly till you get a signal on 110W, once you do you should also be lined up on 129W.

On 110W the default transponder is 12224R, this will work fine for finding 110W, on 129w you need to change to 12516R, this transponder is an SD transponder and also has the "You have a dish at 129W" channel on it, (channel 9599) this will tell you that your on the right bird.

LNB type needs to be OCS-DP or Dish.

Diseqc switch settings for each bird is as follows.

Diseqc port# 1 = 119W
Diseqc port# 2 = 110W
Diseqc port# 3 = 129W
Diseqc port# 4 = open, can be used for a 118W LNB.

Now, there is a small problem with 129W, it does not have the same coverage area as 110 and 119, you should look at the link below to see if you need a bigger dish for good reception on 129W.

Use the CONUS beam (in the pink area above the map) as the Canada beam is not active, zoom into your location and click on it, this will give to the estimated dish size needed for good reception on 129W in your area.


http://www.satbeams.com/footprints?norad=33453

One last problem is that your receiver may not be able to direcly power the Dish 1000 tripple LNB and it's internal switch, this LNB needs at least 650 mA of DC current to run correctly, most FTA receivers can only supply 500 mA at the LNB input port.

If this is the case then you will need a DPP 44 switches power inserter to run the LNB, you don't need the switch just it's power inserter, you would only need the DPP44 switch if you need to run more then 2 receivers, the DPP power inserter needs to be run on it's own coax out to the LNB, and connected to the #1 LNB output port, WHY? because most FTA receivers do not like the DPP power inserter in-line with them.

[Terryl]

So now he need someone that has his brand of receiver to tell him how to change to the right transponder to find 119W and 129W.