Control Box for Roof Mounted Dish .....

moisheh wrote:
Sounds like a Moto Sat. There is away to do what you described. I think you hit stow and find at the same time. Someone will chime in and correct me! Moisheh

Yes, I neglected to mention the roof dish is a Moto Sat with 3 LNB's. Thanks.
I'll try the combination hold down.

Motosat has lots of issues locking onto satellites and since they have gone out of business for small dishes they can't offer any help. There are some distributors that will attempt to upgrade the software but it's a hit or miss as to whether it will work. There is a company (RF Mogul) that has a box that is backwards compatible with the Nomad box but they want $600. In my case because I use Shaw even the upgrade won't work because of the interference from the third satellite that can't be programmed into the software. What I have to do is set my TV to the signal strength and hit the power button off when the signal is a strong as I think it'll get - somewhere between 75 and 90%. This will pull in some of the HD channels but not all. There are still the non HD channels so I'm not missing anything. I figure for $600 I can put up with a lot of button pushing:S

Been doing some homework and thought I'd contact MotoSat to find out they are now out of business. A company NiaSat have bought them. Googleing my area (Eugene, Oregon) came across a Sat Dish dealer www.oregonrv.net carries lots of replacement parts and does diagnosis. The guys name is Don Marr. I'll give him a call on Monday. Thanks all for the input.

How long has the dish been behaving this way? The reason I ask is that about five or so years ago Direct moved some of their programming to a different bird, and the motosat software had to be upgraded to find the new bird. My motosat behaved exactly like you describe until I upgraded the software. That's hard to do today since motosat is defunct in this business. You might google for the motosat forum and get some help there. The forum has a section just for tv satellite.

Good luck.

I replaced mine with a winegard traveler and couldn't be happier.

Bikeboy57 wrote:
How long has the dish been behaving this way? The reason I ask is that about five or so years ago Direct moved some of their programming to a different bird, and the motosat software had to be upgraded to find the new bird. My motosat behaved exactly like you describe until I upgraded the software. That's hard to do today since motosat is defunct in this business. You might google for the motosat forum and get some help there. The forum has a section just for tv satellite.

Good luck.

I replaced mine with a winegard traveler and couldn't be happier.

When I call Don Marr from OregonRV. net I'll ask him to verify, if he can, to check my software and if it needs an update. Thanks much .... hadn't given any thought to a software fix.

2ndhom wrote:
Been doing some homework and thought I'd contact MotoSat to find out they are now out of business. A company NiaSat have bought them. Googleing my area (Eugene, Oregon) came across a Sat Dish dealer www.oregonrv.net carries lots of replacement parts and does diagnosis. The guys name is Don Marr. I'll give him a call on Monday. Thanks all for the input.

MotoSAT is gone forever. No other company owns them or the rights to their products. Some of the former owners of MotoSAT have a new company called RF Mogul and they are supporting "some" of the old MotoSAT controllers. Don Marr is an excellent guy and should be able to offer good paid tech support should you need it. You can Google RF Mogul if you want to contact them. Don is also active on the Datastormusers forum and you can find software for you controller there as well. It's having the right hardware to install that software that can be an issue.

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