Changing Satellite receiver

hornblower

I recently upgraded my sat receiver to a HD version (Aldi) and lost all positioner settings. I can't get any signal from the motorised dish no matter how often nor how slowly I move the dish during 'satellite setup'. When I connect to a fixed dish, the unit does exactly what it says on the box!
So my questions are - 1. Should I use disqec 2, 1.2 or usals in the setup? 2. Any proven step-by-step guide out there to getting the usual sats (Astra 28.2 and Hotbird at a minimum). I've spent so much time trying that I'm ready to tear out the motorised system and use a 2nd dish and receiver for the 2nd sat! Help!!! Please and Thank you!

tomslick

You should use USALS. Enter your Lon/Lat position, drive motor to 0, then select Sat and as long as your motor was working it'll come back to life. You should get a min value on you signal to indicate an LNB is connected. Your motor should have a green LED on it. Are you sure that your transponder settings are any way modern?

hornblower

tomslick wrote: »

You should use USALS. Enter your Lon/Lat position, drive motor to 0, then select Sat and as long as your motor was working it'll come back to life. You should get a min value on you signal to indicate an LNB is connected. Your motor should have a green LED on it. Are you sure that your transponder settings are any way modern?

Thanks for that. Motor is working and does have the green LED. I tried to put in the lat/long values using settings found on dishpointer.com as follows:
Latitude: 53.3133°
Longitude: -6.2753°

No way to enter a minus longitude value so I haven't completed that section - and I have no idea how to set the dish/motor to 0. Am I being stupid?

Thanks

tomslick

Usually you put minus as west, positive is east. When you go to motor setup you'll see an option to "go to 0". This puts the motor at 0 and it "knows" where it is. Then it'll drive to whatever you want.