[elgemcdlf]

Sort of. If you were pulling 121 when USALS was pointed to 123 you were both too high and to far east in theory. You are creating an arc of travel utilizing two adjustments, motor elevation and dish elevation. That arc can take many differnt shapes depending on your settings. I personally would remove my presets for sat locations (this keeps the receiver from moving the dish) then manually move the motor to the zero setting using the switch on the motor itself. I would then start by setting 121 in the receiver and let the receiver move to 121. It will be very little movement if any at all.

Now manually peak the dish. This means rotating the dish on the mast along with altering dish elevation until you have the highest quality signal you can achieve for 121. You now have your system centered on the portion of the arc you can see from your location. Now tell the receiver with USALS you want G10R. It is only 2 degrees away so it should be there. Ok now let's get brave and take a shot at 79. Telemundo is there and a strong feed to dial in on.

If it is not there try a sat closer to center. Keep track of what you are getting and what you are not. On the furthest east sat you can get gently push up on the dish. Does the signal get stronger? Try pulling down. Same for the furthest west sat you can see. If they get stronger in opposite directions, meaning pushing up on the east and down on the west makes the corresponding sat stronger you are not centered and need to rotate on the mast a bit rotate in the direction of the down sat.

Now see how far you can get east and west and repeat the process until pushing up and pulling down make the signal weaker not stronger. You should be perfectly centered now on the arc. You next chore is properly tracking the arc. Lowering dish elevation spreads the arc out and raising dish elevation brings the ends closer together. It is a combination of the two settings. If you are not getting the ends of the arc go to your notes you have been taking on each sat and figure out if your arc is falling short or running wide.

Whatever you alter dish elevation at this time you need to make the same setting change in reverse to motor elevation. So if you determine your arc is wide raise your dish elevation 1 degree and lower the motor elevation 1 degree. Now try your ends again. Keep playing until all the sats in your viewing area of the arc are peaked.

Stay with USALS. It is very tempting to cheat an alignment with DiSeqC 1.2 but if you are not properly aligned you are not properly aligned and trying to fool the receiver with 1.2 will do you no good at all.

Plan on 4 hours of your time getting the thing lined up properly. If you follow this procedure you should have it aligned in far less time but the point is do not rush anything. Have a small tv and the receiver outside at the dish while you are aligning.

Hope that helps
Steve