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The <strong>Titanium</strong> <strong>ASC1</strong> menu<br />

connected one of our reference<br />

meters, the Deviser<br />

S7000 (presented in TELEaudiovision<br />

09-10/2013,<br />

you can read the test report<br />

here: www.TELE-audiovision.com/13/09/deviser).<br />

This allowed us to see the real-time<br />

spectrum and thanks<br />

to the waterfall diagram we<br />

could register and count all<br />

of the satellites featuring C-<br />

band transponders.<br />

At first we were using the<br />

<strong>Titanium</strong> <strong>ASC1</strong> directly to<br />

drive the dish. Having the remote<br />

control available made<br />

it so convenient to operate<br />

the dish that we almost forgot<br />

that we could also control<br />

the dish with the Deviser<br />

by using simple DiSEqC 1.2<br />

commands. Once we realized<br />

that we could do that,<br />

we went ahead and tried it<br />

out to make sure that all the<br />

possible DiSEqC 1.2 commands<br />

are really supported:<br />

GOTO, STORE, STEP, LIMIT<br />

and RESET.<br />

While the GOTOxx command<br />

is fairly standard and<br />

should have no trouble working<br />

on a positioner that is to<br />

be connected to a modern<br />

satellite receiver, we were<br />

not so sure about how well<br />

it would behave with the remaining<br />

commands.<br />

The first command we<br />

70 TELE-audiovision International — The World‘s Leading Digital TV Industry Publication — 09-10/2014 — www.TELE-audiovision.com

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