Positioner on Technotrend S2 3220 (BDA)

[oMikR0n]

I am a new user of DVBViewer. I installed latest beta and am trying to setup positioner with Transedit. I dont know the exact position of my dish now and i want to find hotbird to start. Is it possible to move the dish from Transedit Positioner console and with some other util check the signal while is moving ? I remember that hotbird for my dish is arround 8.3 West but i tried it and nothing there... Sorry for my bad english. If you need to now something else, ask me.

I have a Technisat SkyStar HD and i am using Windows 7 (x64) with ttBudget2_5.0.1.8 drivers.

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Edited May 2, 2009 by oMikR0n

[oMikR0n]

Now i am finally able to see Hotbird with 65% signal, but i am pretty sure it can go higher! Is it any way to maximize the signal? Am pretty confused with transedit. I cant get it working while DVBViewer is running. And how i can add the other sattelites like astra for now?

[Griga]

Is it possible to move the dish from Transedit Positioner console and with some other util check the signal while is moving ?

Not possible while the device is occupied by TransEdit. But you can use the TransEdit Analyzer. Select the Hotbird transponder list and an appropriate transponder, start the analyzer and then move the dish with the positioner console until data arrives and the number of missing packets ("Missing" column) is not increasing. Check the content of the SI tables on the left in order to verify that you are really receiving Hotbird.

[oMikR0n]

just one more stupid question: How many steps the motor has? its 90 east and 90 west? 180 overall ?

And why i cant set a spesific angular position on the motor? I think the hotbird sattelite for me is arround 8.3W.

Sorry for my bad english again.

Edited May 2, 2009 by oMikR0n

[oMikR0n]

Please someone can make it easier for me?

[oMikR0n]

I found a solution about it... Everything works fine now. Thank you very much

Great program. Worth buying...

[krasno]

I found a solution about it... Everything works fine now. Thank you very much

Great program. Worth buying...

 

Hi

I would like to hear your solution..!!

 

The way I do it: ( and first time set-up was TERRIBLE... took loooong time..)

 

first of all I like you, use 13E Hotbird as straight south, (my position is 12.3E and 13 degree's is the closest to that) and when that is found and stored:

 

Note the figure readings on the V-box, on mine it was 199 ( gave up to hit "000" which would have been more nice - but an impossible mission..)

now..199 is straight south..

 

Then I find Astra 19.2E using a known freqvency moving the V-box from the positioner menu until a signal i found

Note the figures again, on mine the V-box reading was "161"

The difference is 6 degrees..19-13 (not precisely, but..)

that means 1 degree is (199-161)/6 = 6,3 steps on the V-box.

 

Now it is more easy to find the other positions, not easy but easier...

I agree it would be VERY smart to be able to see signal levels...

 

A hint: note all the V-box readings for all positions in a spreadsheet-and recalculate the numbers per degree all the time, for use in a later re-installation.

 

It will not help anybody that I post all my figures here, becourse they depends on many parameters in the mount and type of actuator, like how many pulses do you get per RPM, where you live, and the distance the Actuator is mounted from the center og the disc... (the radius..)

Tried to do some thinking here.. I think, not sure, that the scale must be linear at equator,

in all other places the numbers between postions are NOT the same over the complete Clarke belt, so you have to re-calculater how much the v-box have to move all the time, be course it is not a liniar scale, the mount moves faster per figure on the V-box, the further you come away from direct south and therefor count slower...

Understood this way: one turn on the motor moves the disc more the more down in the horizon you come.. and more the more north ( or south ) to equator you live.

 

 

But let me know if you have found a smarter way to do it!!