"Bill (Adopt)" <adopt@billsimpson.com> wrote in message
news:4ebe90b0cdadopt@billsimpson.com...
> In article <550lvqF1rqjkuU1@mid.individual.net>,
> Pat <psweeney@riversway.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Pat.. )
>
> Just got back.. will attempt to answer this first
> - anything later might just be my nose bouncing off
> the keyboard in time to the snores! )
>
>> My coordinates are
>
>> Lat:
>> 53:52:13N (53.8703)
>> Lon:
>> 3:02:22W (-3.0393)
>> Which bits do I enter in when using USALS. The fists number or the ones
>> in
>> brackets. It only alows me to enter a few digits
>
>
> I think, not knowing which box you now have, that
> the digits you will need to enter will be the ones
> in your brackets..
>
> So that will be 53.87N (or 53.8N or 53.9N if you
> can only enter to one decimal place.
>
> The westerly one is similarly entered as either
> 3.04W or perhaps -3.0....
>
> The minus is important as that denotes a westerly
> direction of longitude. East is positive (+) and
> west is negative (-)...
>
> I'm at a +0.9 longitude - or at least the outside
> of the kitchen wall, where the dish is mounted,
> happens to be.. )
>
>
> I might be answering your immediately prior article
> here, but there is another thing that you can check...
>
>
> Make sure that your box is not switched into
> DiSEqC 1.2 as it's main positioner.
>
> This means you are attempting to use the onboard
> D-igital S-atellite E-quipment C-ontroller to move
> your dish - and this can only be done after a lot
> of work with calculators, declination and inclination
> angles, testing the wind and a few magical words, for
> each and every satellite you might wish to receive.
>
> DiSEqC is a viable if now somewhat old-fashioned
> method of doing it in these enlightened days. I'm
> not sure I would even know how - although I'm told
> that a large wad of chewing-gum (or blu-tack) and
> a long length of string is an advantage -as is a
> rich 'French' vocabulary ..oh.. and a degree in
> mathematics... ;'))
>
> So, make sure that your box is actually switched into
> it's USALS menu ..ie that any 'positioner messages'
> will come up as "USALS" or somesuch, /not/ as "1.2"
>
> This tells your box that it is now in control of the
> dish - not the motor! It will tell the motor where
> to go ..usually to within 1/10th of a degree if it's
> the Metronics dish wobbler..
>
> I don't know which box you have ..but the menus
> should make this USALS section fairly clear. You
> may need to both select USALS - and to confirm that
> selection before the box sets itself into the USALS
> mode. Once in USALS it shouldn't ever drop out
> again, even when switched off totally and restarted
> from a 'boot' - unless you wish it to...
>
> It might be that ensuring that you are in USALS is
> all you need to do - apart from finding which satellite
> is placed where in the heavens above you.. )
>
> You will have to program each satellite into the box
> by putting in and storing it's position - although
> you may find that your own reference latitude and
> longitude, having been put in once, will not need
> to be entered again. These may appear automatically,
> each time you start up and enter a 'new' satellite..
>
> Anyway, once you have stored that satellite position,
> then try asking the box to find the 'new' satellite
> and to load up the channels - just as you have done
> for both the Hotbirds and Astras...
>
> Now ..if this makes sense ..let's see what happens!
>
> Hopefully you'll find yourself making plenty of coffee
> and munching lots of biccies whilst all the channels
> are pouring in )
>
> hh... )
>
> Bill ZFC...
>
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I called Fortec Star in the Uk for technical suport they couldnt offer any
and said I shold try maplins where i got it from. I called maplins tech supp
hotline and they said "I havent a clue about satellites you have to move the
dish yourself manually"
I then went on to tell him I had entered my settings L&L and it still wont
find anything and I cannot switch from one sat to another He then said the
box was faulty.#

GGGrrrrr