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<blockquote data-quote="Phaedra" data-source="post: 750060" data-attributes="member: 110603">Small update.I found a safer way of messing with the dish alignment, from a flat roof with access to the back of the dish, and with a laptop with a remote desktop connection to the TV server.&nbsp; Just looked a bit funny from my neighbours point of view....A big thanks again to mm for pointing me out how critical dish alignment can be.When I first aligned the dish, I did that with one of those &quot;satellite finder&quot; peeping things.&nbsp; As advised (&quot;If all else fails, read the instructions&quot;) I did the alignment with the satfinder on the center LNB (Astra 23.5).But as I now found out, this is too inaccurate, and leading to a bad alignment on the Astra 19.2 LNB.With my laptop, I could now select the 3 LNBs separately and do a channel scan, monitoring the signal level/quality while I moved the dish.&nbsp; That experiment clearly demonstrated that alignment on 1 LNB doesn't necessarily lead to a good (enough) alignment on any other.It also made me think of a nice extra functionality for MP : if I could do a continuous channel scan on a particular transponder and frequency (the most critical frequency, or, as I learned here, the higher frequencies), and use that scan for dish alignment ?I knwo by now which channels of my provider are most critical, so I could &quot;lock&quot; the scan on that channel and align the disc, monitoring signal levels....So far, so good, my channel list is looking very good now, and time to move on to CAM matters.I have contacted DD support, and I must say they were very helpful and responsive, even during the weekend (I even got replies on sunday !).They can not, however, help me with a list of supported CAMS that would work for my setup.When they talk about MTD, to me it is not clear if it has something to do with the number of channels per transponder that can be decoded.&nbsp; In the specifications of the Aston CAM I find that their version 2.2 supports 2 channels per transponder, but they say nothing about how many different transponders (tuners) can be handled simultaneously.So that's still a mistery to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Phaedra, post: 750060, member: 110603"] Small update. I found a safer way of messing with the dish alignment, from a flat roof with access to the back of the dish, and with a laptop with a remote desktop connection to the TV server. Just looked a bit funny from my neighbours point of view.... A big thanks again to mm for pointing me out how critical dish alignment can be. When I first aligned the dish, I did that with one of those "satellite finder" peeping things. As advised ("If all else fails, read the instructions") I did the alignment with the satfinder on the center LNB (Astra 23.5). But as I now found out, this is too inaccurate, and leading to a bad alignment on the Astra 19.2 LNB. With my laptop, I could now select the 3 LNBs separately and do a channel scan, monitoring the signal level/quality while I moved the dish. That experiment clearly demonstrated that alignment on 1 LNB doesn't necessarily lead to a good (enough) alignment on any other. It also made me think of a nice extra functionality for MP : if I could do a continuous channel scan on a particular transponder and frequency (the most critical frequency, or, as I learned here, the higher frequencies), and use that scan for dish alignment ? I knwo by now which channels of my provider are most critical, so I could "lock" the scan on that channel and align the disc, monitoring signal levels.... So far, so good, my channel list is looking very good now, and time to move on to CAM matters. I have contacted DD support, and I must say they were very helpful and responsive, even during the weekend (I even got replies on sunday !). They can not, however, help me with a list of supported CAMS that would work for my setup. When they talk about MTD, to me it is not clear if it has something to do with the number of channels per transponder that can be decoded. In the specifications of the Aston CAM I find that their version 2.2 supports 2 channels per transponder, but they say nothing about how many different transponders (tuners) can be handled simultaneously. So that's still a mistery to me. [/QUOTE]

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