[mythtv-users] FTA Satellite Receivers -- Satellite Alignment

[Paul Harvey]

Jack Burghardt wrote:

>Well I got Telestar 5 going. Do you have sat meater is very helpful also
>small TV and tunner will help you a lot. You need to calculate satelite
>location too and have compas to point the dish and use sat meater to make
>final ajustments. When you have small tv that let you watch signal strenght
>but sat meater is much better.
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Paul Harvey" <paulharvey at myrealbox.com>
>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 10:23 PM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] FTA Satellite Receivers -- Satellite Alignment
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>>Clay wrote:
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>> <><>Paul:
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>> What sats are you trying to hit? I've got mine pointing at Dish 
>> Network.have my notes and a list of links at the office if you want 
>> me to send them<> your way. A friend and I had mine mounted and 
>> aligned in about 10 minutes.  clay
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Figured it out (sort of, still don't have it totally lined up and 
working).  The problem is the VP1020 card.  It takes a long time to lock 
on to the satellite signal.  If I use the sat meter to get the strongest 
signal, and wait a while it works :) but I'm having problems fine-tuning 
it because of the time lag. :(  I've decided that the card has to go.

Is it worth the extra money to get a Hauppauge Nexus-s instead of 
Nova-s?  Is the hardware MPEG decoder supported under Linux/MythTV?

Thanks!

--PLH