Ok, this weekend is perfect. Clear sky, not a cloud even thinking about popping up.
I took down the dish and put on the new mount, screwed it all together, and put it back up. Put the receiver on
telstar 5 again, punched in my lat/long in the Positioner section (which was new to me) and manouvered the dish until I got 80+ signal and 80+ quality. Fooled with the elevation on the new mount a little, but the page here to check all the math for the degrees was pretty dead on. With all the number for Kansas City KS it showed 5.72 degrees elevation. I set the STAB120HH's mount screw to my latitude, 39. I get Telstar 5 good.
Whenever I rotate the mount to anything else, I get good signal strength but zero quality. I can't get antyhing except T5. When I bring up the menu and select something VERY close like Telstar 6, and rotate the dish to it, the quality goes to zero again. If I change back to Telstar 5 without even rotating the dish, I get full quality again.
What's going on? Is my mount set to the wrong elevation? The book says to set the mount to your true elevation, and put the dish mount to the Dish Elevation = P - (60 - Latitude) elevation. In my case the
Stab is set to 39 degrees and the sat dish set to 5-6 degrees (5.72).
Any hints welcome!