How To Setup A Motorized Satellite System

For numerous of us, the way to tune into digital TV is via satellite installations. There exists viewing cards & subscriptions for packages from across the globe, you might have one too and watching these signals with a dish. One thing is that if you tried to turn the dish it would be able to view channels from other satellite positions. The sky is full of satellites and free to view channels which very possibly don't need a large dish. To view FTA you don't have to have a registration.

The main FTA satellites inside Europe are 13E and 19E which sends out loads of FTA channels in multiple languages, such as Italian, German and Russian. However there are many other satellites containing Free To Air channels. At first it perhaps does not sound worthy of note to view the far-off channels. Now lets say you would really want to watch a sports event that's not broadcasted on your current channels although this is on a free channel on another satellite, wouldn't it be interesting to look at it? The most common way to watch other satellites is by motorizing a satellite dish. With motorizing a dish, you will have the freedom of receiving several satellites.

Choosing the right motor: There are selection of motors to choose from, like DiSEqC, 36v H to H as well as actuators. DiSEqC motors are the most installed and these are okay for dishes up to 1 meter in size. Along with this kind of motor it utilizes your satellite receivers power which operates on 17v/12v. Receivers have a certain amount of output power for the motor as it combines it with the LNB (Low Noise Block. This makes them decelerate and not as strong compared to other types of H to H motors. Still its an easy and cheap upgrade because it uses the existing coax cable which previously goes to the LNB on your satellite dish so you wont need to purchase more cables to drive the motor So for a small dish a DiSEqC motor might be a good choice. 36v actuators and H to H motors are more robust, can handle higher wind loads and rotate bigger dishes and they use their own power source and cables from the receivers built-in 36v positioner. Most digital receivers do not have this built-in positioner but don't worry, in this case you could make use of a thing like the V-Box. One benefit of this is memories are stored into it rather than in the receiver.

All the different motor types are made to do the equivalent thing, to track the geostationary satellite arc surrounded by 180 degrees radius. It is not possible to go further because all the other satellites are under the horizon, meaning they are invisible. Prior to mounting, its a good idea to figure out where to install your dish so trees or other objects are not obstructing view to the satellites you want to receive. If you have everything aligned correctly the dish will move to the desired position as you change channel. Now this opens up to a whole new dimension of satellite TV.

On Lyngsat you can discover out which size dish you need from your position for any selected satellite. So the bigger dish you have, the additional channels you will be able to view. There is as well the option of subscribing to packages from further satellites. Memorize, many channels have English audio tracks. Here are a variety such as Documentary, Cartoon and Music channels. Like if you are living in Finland you don't have to select only Viasat and Canal Digital. Most receivers support multiple encryption systems.

Its worth to mention, there exists different types of bands, each of these operating in their own frequencies. C-Band are lower frequencies and generally requires large dishes. Ku-Band which is the most used, works in higher frequency ranges. Both these bands have Vertical and Horizontal (Linear), Left and Right (Circular) polarization. A LNB type is either Linear or Circular, you might still combine them both on same dish if you put the two LNB's next to each other. If you choose to do this you can use a 2/1 DiSEqC switch, this will automatically tell the receiver what LNB to select for the type of signal. {This way could also be an substitute to motorized systems, as you can receive many satellites with a fixed dish by using a number of LNB's.

There are endless combination's of dishes, motors as well as receivers but don't worry its not as difficult as you might suppose. The horizon is full of satellites and channels that anyone can see with the hardware that is available on the market.

By: Mark Sieblin

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