I really appreciate you guys taking the time to help a newbie with his problems. Let me see if I got this straight I did some more reading and came up with this. To start of with My Latitude is 39.34. N and my Longitude 119.41 W. If I use EchoStar 8/6 as my south position because of my latitude it’s 164.8 on the azimuth and with the magnetic declination of 14/15 that works out. Then swing around to EchoStar 7 it is 178.7 on the azimuth and use that as my closest satellite. Right now using what I have read and tried I am hitting:
Galaxy 11 at 91.0°W
Galaxy 3C at 95.0°W
AMC 4 at 101.0°W
Anik F2-E2R at 111.1°W
SatMex 5 at 116.8°W
EchoStar 9/Intelsat Americas 13 at 121.0°W
Galaxy 10R at 123.0°W
I really don’t know if this is the max I can hit or could I zero in on a couple more. I’m happy with the results right now I just have need to know if I could do better.
I have:
Pansat 2500A
Fortec Star 80 cm dish
FSKU-V Universal LNBF
SM3D12 motor