New Repeater Questions

[EA7KIR]

This any good?

Thanks, but it's the printed manual which came with it. Useless for anything out of the ordinary.

[g0mjw]

Usually these are fairly easy to programme. You need the remote. The idea is to fool it to tune to the required frequency by working out where a satellite transponder would be, at IF. E.g. for 1249 MHz you programme it to 1249+9750 = 10999 MHz. That's assuming a standard LNB LO. Then you set the symbol rate and do a transponder search.

Mike

[G7VVF]

I usually create a new satellite called DATV then add a transponder with the required symbol rate, select an LNB that has a LO of 10000, then the frequency will just need a 1 in front of it eg 1249 becomes 11249. Then you have to scan for the transmission and if it receives your signal it will store it as a new channel.
This section of the instructions has the info you need

Duncan G7VVF

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[G7VVF]

Michael,
I don't think your SAT RX will do H265 as it only mentions H264 and "HD 1080" and I think H265 is used for 4K transmissions.
However it does say it will work with symbol rates of 1-45MS/s, so you should be able to run at 1MS/s but not lower and make sure you are transmitting a mode that the RX can decode or otherwise when it scans for your signal it won't find anything.

Duncan G7VVF

[EA7KIR]

Usually these are fairly easy to programme.

I think I've bought a lemon. If I connect it to my QO-100 LNB, it pulls in 182 channels including Al Jazeera in English that I can watch on my Apple TV. However, nothing from the amateur band and nothing from the LibreSDR sending on 749.25MHz, regardless of FEC or bitrate. The only useful setting available is a list preset LNB Frequency - currently set to 9750 - but no option for FEC, etc.

[G3GJA]

The Sat Rx will only tune its normal range of LNB IF frequencies - 950 - 2150MHz

The tuner itself might do a larger range but it will be constrained by the software controlling it.

Clive