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Old 07-31-2006, 03:33 PM
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Ok you are not lined up on your true south location correctly. Set the motor to 0. Then with USALS tell the motor to drive to 74 which I believe is SBS6. Now you want to set tp info to 11741V6616.

Slowly rotate your whole assembly east and west very slowly watching the receiver for signal lock. Once you have the highest reading possible then raise and lower the dish elevation for peak signal. Snug everything down. Now try hitting other sats.

I am assuming your mast is perfectly plumb. If not fix that first. Map your arc travel on a piece of paper and try to determine the shape of the arc you have created. Lower dish elevation spreads the arc out and higher narrows it up. Whenever you make a change in declination (dish elevation) make the opposite adjustment in motor elevation. This will maintain yoru peaked south setting while reshaping your arc.

The dish / lnb do not distinguish between sats at the same location. The receiver could care less what sat it is on. It just receives in what is there when the dish is pointed at whatever it is pointed at.
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