How to: Sats in Arc Order on Menu - Advanced Users

[Realist]

This How to is to cure the sat order problem on the channel menu.

You need to do an auto setup to define sat positions before doing this.

The trouble with auto search is:- when you press ok for the menu - the sats at the top are all in a messy order. Some people like me, want them in the order of the arc. This explains how to do this, and is for advanced users.

The first thing is to understand why they are in the wrong order. The reason is simple. If you were to find a new sat now - when you press the ok button for the menu - it will have placed it - to the right hand side of the last sat you found.

For example: If you only had one sat tuned in - say Astra 19 - when you bring the channel menu up that is all there will be. If You now go and tune in 42 east, that will appear to the right hand side of Astra 19. And so on etc......

So the answer is obvious. You start at 42 east - and manually add the sats one at a time in arc order.

To do this involves a Master Reset. Before you start - you need to write down your east and west limits. Then, the counter position of every sat that you have.

Park The sat on Hotbird and Master Reset.

Set your limits and store. Then, using your notes, move the dish manually to 42 east - channel or tp search on Turksat. You will now have have Tuksat on your channel menus. Next do Helias and that will appear in the correct place to the right of Turksat on the channel menu. And so on...until you get to 45 west.

Problems. You need to do this on a good day when you can get a good signal from the weaker sats. If you can't get a signal on 23 east for example, a sat with NO CHANNELS will not go in the menu. You have to get something in there for the menu position to be maintained.

I tricked mine on sats with no signal. Hope this is easy to understand.

So, you start at 42 east, then do 39, 36, 28, 26.

Then you can't get 23 east. You now have to select 23 east in the advance search menu - then manually move it back to the 26 east position. One or two digits different on the counter would be good, just to show a difference. Enter a user defined frequency for an actual 'live channel' that is showing already on 26 east. That will now come up as a channel on 23 east - and place it in the right order on the menu. You can manually move this later to it's correct position.

A little tedius perhaps, but once it's done....great!
When you have finished - get back to the positioner 2 menu, and just enter your east - middle - west sats, then store.

Another way maybe, I haven't tried this but should work in getting the menu in arc order.

Delete 42 east from the database in the sat edit function. That's gone for ever now. REMAKE it as a new sat and search it. That is now the last sat you found. Then do the same for 39 east - and that should place 39 east to the right of the 42 east. Etc..etc..

Or it may work if:

You just delete all the channnels on 42 east, and research. And so on... Sats with no channels seem to drop out of the menu - whether that sat comes back in the same or a different place. I not sure. Don't want to mess mine up trying this.:-))

Laters

Thanks go out to Mumbles of Alsat forums for the above tutorial. Without people like him, the satellite world would be a lost cause.