Just 4 Satellites

[Chapper]

I continue to install my HR20 and Slimline Dish (antenna). People from the forum already helped me with some issues and I already passed some steps, but now I´m stuck in another step.

I´m trying to allign the slimline dish with a satellite finder (perfect vision PVSF22K). I´m not using a multiswitch, I just ran the cable directly from the slimline to the HR20. I can get some signal strenghts with my sat finder, the only bad thing about that sat finder is that you can´t select a satellite, it detects the x satellite that you´re aiming.

So I started to allign the slimline starting with the azimuth, elevation and tilt that the HR20 gave me (I also compared it with some softwares from internet). I conect the sat finder and started to tune. I tried about 2 hours and the only sats that I could reach were:

101- Transponder 30 with 89%
110- Transponder 8 with 83 %
119 - 0% in all trasnponders
103 (a)- All trasnponders in N/A

In sats 101 and 110, I have 3 transponders above 80% of signal (green color in signal menter)

With these I have several questions:
1) Why do I get 0% in all trasnponders in sat 119?
2) Why is 103 (a) sat, all transponders in N/A?
3) Why doesn´t appear the sat 99 in the HR20 so I can tune it o check its signal?
4) With one transponder from each sat that I get more than 80% signal is ok?

I hope that I´m aiming right and all of these issues is just a case of fine tunning, sorry if I made a lot of questions, but this is the only way we can learn. Thank you for your time and answers.

Best regards!

[carl6]

1. Verify your pole/mast is plumb vertically.
2. Double check elevation and tilt settings are correct per HR20 (not on-line). Make sure you select 5-LNB dish on HR20.
3. Set azimuth to where you think it should be. Check sat 101. If you don't have good signal strength on most transponders you need to adjust azimuth.

Adjust azimuth (left to right): Very slowly move your dish through as much as a 20 degree arc looking for a signal. When you see one, peak the signal then check your receiver to see if you are getting all transponders. If not, keep adjusting azimuth looking for another signal, then peak it, then check your receiver. You need to keep doing this until you find the correct satellite.

Once you find the right satellite, and you have good signals on most of the 101 transponders, you need to do the fine tuning procedures for the dish. Here is where you need to be able to select what satellite you are using (101 or 119). If your meter doesn't let you do that, then you have to tune to a channel on the receiver that will force it to use 119. Use the test channels 490-494 to do this.

You do not adjust for a signal on 99 or 103. If you correctly align 101 and 119, you will get all 5 satellites.

Carl

[Chapper]

Thank you Carl for your suggestions. Here´s what I have done.

1) The pole is plumed ok..this is becuase I checked and the air bubble is still in the center of the circle.

2) I selected, in the HR20 wizzard, the 5 Lnb antenna (I pay attention in that step)

3) It´s good idea about using the channels that receive the 119 sat, but the thing here is that I can´t get to the HR20 guide to see the channels. I only stays in a screen with the D* logo and a bar in the bottom indicating: Searching for satellites and it stays there. In this point I hit the menu button and the only option that I have is to got to se the signal levels and that´s where I´m stuck.

Is there a way I can tune a channel (without an image of course) if it is not getting all the satellites strenghts?

Thank you!