So finally the rain stopped and in the meantime I got to do lots of reading up on this to the point where I was tried of reading. I set the dish to 39, set my motor to 38, and pointed the whole thing to about 164 azimuth. Selected USALS, entered lat and long into reciever and moved the dish to 121 TS sat, no signal, moved the motor and dish together a few degrees south and BAM, 93%.
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At this point I adjusted the Motor eleveation and declanation for best signal. Tightened up the motor clamp and the dish nut and motored to
IA5, 85% signal. Motored to G10 at 123, got 19%, went up on the ladder and moved the motor/dish over few degrees north to achieve about 55 to 60% on G10 tightend up everything and motored back to 121, still at 88% signal, went to 97 about 80%, shot over to 87 93%. So yea USALS is really your friend. What I learned here is that only adjust your motor and dish elevation and declenation at your true south sat and not to touch it after that. If any adjustment needs to be made for tracking the sides of the arc, it should be done by adjusting the north-south alignment by moving the entire mount, and NOT by changing the motor elevation or declanation since the rotation of the motor really controls the declanation and the LNB skew automatically once your true south sat is properly alligned.
The link below details out very clearly.
elgemcdf, rainman and starman, thank you very much for assisting me. But what I also found to be very helpful is this article:
http://www.geo-orbit.org/sizepgs/tun...l#anchor797917 items 3 through 8 that pertain to KU setup.
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big thanks to druze Tito and Bobkat for posting that up.
I have one question at this point:
on AMC3 87 I cannot lock on these TPs 19 and 20 I get only about 19% to 20% signal while on other TPs on the same bird I am seeing 93%. Does anyone else see this? or am I missing something?
