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Installing Your Satellites
To install the satellites you want to track, follow the steps below.
1. Using your PC’s terminal emulation program, type
HALT<cr> (<cr> indicates a carriage return/ENTER
key). This command puts the antenna in Idle mode.
2. Enter the
SATINSTALL parser command:
Command: SATINSTALL,<sat_a_name>,<sat_b_name><cr>
Where: <sat_a_name> = the name of your choice for
Satellite A
<sat_b_name> = the name of your choice for
Satellite B
Table 2-11 lists the assigned names for satellites
that are in the preprogrammed satellite library. If
you only want to install and track one satellite,
enter
NONE as the name of Satellite B.
3. Once you’ve assigned satellites as Satellite A and
Satellite B, you need to tell the antenna which of
the two satellites it should initially acquire and
track. This step should be performed the first time
a satellite is selected, allowing the system to
download the channel guide. To do so, enter the
following parser command:
Command: @L,A or B<cr>
Where: A = track Satellite A
B = track Satellite B
4. Type ZAP<cr> to restart the antenna.
Examples:
To select Astra 2S and Hotbird for your satellite pair, and to track
Hotbird, you would enter the following commands:
SATINSTALL,ASTRA2S,HOTBIRD<cr>
@L,B<cr>
ZAP<cr>
To select and track the USER1 satellite, which you programmed
earlier into the library, you would enter the following commands:
SATINSTALL,USER1,NONE<cr>
@L,A<cr>
ZAP<cr>
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Satellite Install Name
North American Satellites
DSS 101ºW DSS_101
DSS 119ºW DSS_119
EchoStar 61ºW Echo_61
EchoStar 110ºW Echo_110
EchoStar 119ºW Echo_119
EchoStar 148ºW Echo_148
ExpressVu Expressvu
ExpressVu TV ExpressTV
European Satellites
ASTRA1 19.2ºE ASTRA1
ASTRA2N 28.2ºE ASTRA2N
ASTRA2S 28.2ºE ASTRA2S
Hispasat 30.0ºW HISPASAT
Hotbird WB 13.0ºE HOTBIRDWB
Sirius 5.0ºE SIRIUS
Thor 0.8ºW THOR
Arabsat 26ºE ARABSAT
Nilesat 7ºW NILESAT
Latin American Satellites
Galaxy 3CN 95ºW GALAXY3CN
Galaxy 3CS 95ºW GALAXY3CS
PAS 9 58ºW PAS_9
Other Installation Designations
User-defined 1 USER1*
User-defined 2 USER2*
None None
* USER1 and USER2 will only be
available if one or two user-defined
satellites have been added to the
library as detailed in
“Programming
User-defined Satellites.”
Table 2-11
Satellite Installation Names