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When set to 5, or higher, it doesn't stop on anything. On the first search, I had let it do a 360 3 or 4 times before I stopped it to do a manual. On 4, or less, it seems like it stops on every fly that flies past the dish, SQ often shows zero when it is trying to peak.
-Steven
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Steven, If you are into experimenting I would download a new copy and try the complete update again but doing so from the boot mode. Turn the D3 off, then push and hold the search and stow buttons while you power back up. This will make all 6 lights on the D3 light. (I know you know this, but others might want to follow along.) Then set you computer to and IP of 192.168.0.xx and open the D3 page at 192.168.0.250. This will bring up the software update screen. When it completes do an NVCLEAR and power cycle the D3. This should force another ucbupdate and you will be able to access the regular D3 screen at 192.168.0.250 where you can perform a new dish calibration and then reset the necessary parameters in the configuration screen and reset your computer's IP if necessary. Let me know what happens if you are so inclined to give it a try.
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Bill- OK, I went for it (fun stuff). After the update, there was a long pause with the message "Please wait while setup configuration is completed", or something like that. It then rebooted it self. Guessing that pause was the ucbupdate, I went back to boot mode and did the NVCLEAR, power booted, calibration, then reset the configuration settings. When I did the search, it had passed over 89W 4 times, then landed on 83W, it then went right to 89W and peaked. It seems to be working correctly, except it takes more passes then before. Also, the Signal Trigger still defaults to 5(?).
-Steven
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Steven, The correct signal trigger is 5 with this software and should be left at that setting. If you coach was not level during calibration (or if some other calculation is off) the dish will search until it finds something and you will see that the Target Elevation and Dish Elevation are different by "X" degrees right up until the moment that the signal is properly peaked. At that magic moment you will see the Target Elevation and Dish Elevation suddenly change to the same number. This should correct the search routine to compensate for elevation calculations. The next search you do should be faster and more accurate at to the correct elevation. I am glad to hear that you locked on this time. Let us know what happens with the next few deployments.
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Today we are near Trinidad, CA and we have great internet service. It started raining so I thought I would switch off my my dome antenna to the Datastorm BOW for the best TV reception. Well, you know about these trees up here? Dang, internet but no TV. It looked like an easy solution, just back the coach up a bit to get to the same gap the dome TV antenna was using. Right? Well here's the plan, open the D3 screen and watch the SQ, set the DVR to the signal strength meter and then just move back and forth until you get both. Good plan unless you have installed 3.9.2! As soon as I started to back the coach up the dish stowed itself! Dang, forgot about that. We got the coach back to the original position, re-found the satellite, turned off the auto-stow feature and started the routine over again. Now, life is good. TV, Internet and a rainy day on the coast of CA.
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Bill- I did a stow and search. I stopped it after 8 passes. Unless there is something else you would like me to try, I think I will go ahead and roll back to 3.9.1. Besides, I don't want an auto stow when I need air brakes.
-Steven
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quote:Originally posted by Bill Adams: As soon as I started to back the coach up the dish stowed itself!
Actually, that is quite good news. Sounds like Motion Stow is really improved for MOTION stow now (as opposed to signal loss). How much movement did it take before stow began?
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Steven, No, based upon your results, I would go back to 3.9.2J or 3.9.1 (I have a copy of 3.9.2J if you would like it.) I can't imagine why you would be seeing the results that you are. Michael, I was moving slowly and I doubt I made it any further than 10 feet before Janet said that the dish was stowing itself.
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I'm back with 3.9.1. First pass, 87W then 89W. I also like how 3.9.1 does a revalidate isolation and range when it's done, it gives me an indication of how peaked it got. Also, I had a strange problem with 3.9.2J, after a while (few hours, a day maybe, around there), the SQ would drop about 5 points and the SS would go to 7. After turning off the D3 the SQ would go back up 5 points, turn it back on and back down. A repeak would clear it, for a while. 3.9.2 final wasn't doing this, neither does 3.9.1.
-Steven
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