Sathero satellite Finder SH-100HD

The satellite Finder is an indispensable tool for banking or for those that are appointment by hobby, as it greatly facilitates the work indicating the quality of the signal in pointer or LCD and through sound (beep), allowing the best possible adjustment of the antenna in a few minutes.

Until some time ago there were basically two types of “Satellite Finder”: the simplest, those small appliances that have a dangling pointer to find the signal or a beep to signal that found the satellite signal, EOS more complete with numerous functions and which are large appliances with LCD screen and many buttons.

As I am an enthusiast in this business, I decided to purchase my own satellite Finder, and looking in the national market found the exorbitant prices, so I decided to import direct from China, but these two models I quoted previously present some drawbacks, the simplest is very small and cheap but is incomplete (It is not possible to know exactly which satellite is being appointed and much less choose the TP) and I would need other instruments to make a suitable appointment, the complete model is already expensive costs around 80 dollars and how is robust and has a large LCD screen it is always taxed.

It was then that I discovered on Aliexpress a model middleman who has the same size of the simplest models and does pretty much everything the most complete devices are, and I ended up buying, is the Sathero sh-100hd which cost only 33 dollars and was not taxed. Check out:

The box is small but the appliance is well protected, along comes a USB cable and two male adapters.

He does not come configured with the satellites that we use here in Brazil and this had to be done manually, but it's simple and you just need to do it once. The first thing is to access the manufacturer's Web site (Link) and download the configuration of the satellites, the file is the “TP-Brazil”.

The downloaded file has the extension XLS and can edited in Exel, so you can change the TPs for one of your choice or even put another satellite that is not in the list.

Now we need to put the list of satellites on memory of the device, but our file is in the format XLS and the Sathero 100 only accepts files in BIN format, so you need to convert the file using a program made available also on the website of the manufacturer, just download and install on your PC the file SH-100HD _ TOOLS. (Link)

The program is quite simple, by clicking on the icon opens a window, There is just clicking “Open” and locate the file XLS (that we downloaded earlier) and then click “Save”, name the file and choose the destination folder. Ready is created the BIN file.

To put the BIN file in the Sathero 100 you have to connect it to the PC using the USB cable, the device is recognized as a blank folder, just paste the file within this folder BIN close the window and ready the satellite Finder is configured.

The appliance is simpler still, just screw the adapters and put the cable from the receiver to the input “Receiver” and the cable that comes from the antenna at the entrance “LNB IN”, ready is connected, because it doesn't use drums and is powered by the receiver, There is just select the satellite using the buttons with the arrows to the left or right. The button with the downward arrow is to switch the functions, for example change the frequencies and TPs.

This really is a great appliance, small, cheap, simple and has incredible flexibility to find any satellite signal and also fine-tune their satellite dish. For those who like or works in the area he is a great option. Follow the product link on Aliexpress for those interested:

This Locator: http://pt.aliexpress.com/item/Pocket-Satellite-Finder-SH-100HD/660564428.html

Other satellite Locators: http://www.dx.com/pt/s/satelite

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