USALS is a tim e-saving feature that can be used to m ore easily locate all
satellites, provided that you have done a proper m echanical alignm ent of the
m ount and m otor. It also depends upon putting exact local LONGIT UDE and
LAT ITUDE information for your location into the receiver’s memory. A mathe -
m atical calculation that is the result of all of this inform ation will autom atically
align predicted dish positions for each satellite, assuming that everything has
been done properly. IF you do the m ath and m echanical alignm ents less than
perfectly, the USALS system CANNOT be expected to work properly. In that
situation, one can som etim es use DiSEqC 1.2 Mode on individual satellites to
store them as best as possible. A proper m echanical adjustm ent is m uch
m ore preferable, simply to minimize frustration.
USALS MOTORIZAT ION
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After selecting USALS m otor type, enter LOC AL LONGIT UDE and LOCAL
LAT ITUDE in decim al degrees. Confirm that Longitude is W ES T for North
Am erican locations, and that Latitude is NORTH. SAT LONGITUDE for m ost Ku-
band DiSEqC systems should be set at 097.0 W est, or the Galaxy 19 satellite.
SATELLITE SEARCHING
W hile in INST ALLAT ION section, under ANTENNA SETT ING, satellite scanning
can be done. After all other param eters have been properly entered, to ggle down
to ST ART SEARCH and then toggle left to right to select SAT ELLIT E, BLIND or T P
SAT ELLIT E gives you three subsettings to select. FTA ONLY, TV/RADIO, NIT .
If you select SAT ELLIT E, sm all box labeled SATELLIT E SEARCH will appear in the
center of the screen.
FT A ONLY should normally be set to YES so that only non -scram bled channels are
saved. If you select NO and then SEARCH, ALL possible channels will appear,
including scram bled signals. This creates extra work as each non -wanted channel
m ust be m anually deleted.
T V/RADIO has choices of ALL, TV or RADIO. Unless you don’t want radio at all,
ALL is norm ally selected so that everything is scanned.
NIT SEARCH is normally set to NO, unless you want a thorough but often time-consuming
search of unknown signals.
BLIND gives you a choice of a regular Blind Scan for unknown channels.
The above FT A ONLY and TV/RADIO choices are available in Blind mode.
There is no NIT SEARCH m ode, which m ust be acces sed by first entering
SAT ELLIT E instead of BLIND scanning m ode. If you want a relative ly quick scan
for unknown channels, choose BLIND. Otherwise SAT ELLIT E then NIT SEARCH
for a deep scan.
T P provides an individual Transponder scan.
You can m ake FTA ONLY, TV/RADIO or NIT SEARCH options in this m ode.
This might be useful when choosing an individual transponder, then NIT SEARCH
for a deep scan of channels found only on that T P, rather t han across the entire
satellite
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