[clamasl]

bobkat, rainman, elgemcdlf and others,

I really appreciate all the input you guys gave me, however, I am having a hard time trying to setup this motorized dish. I did what you guys recommended to do:
Have the mast or pole plumb, I setup the elevation on my motor to my lattitde which is for my zip code 33186 25.67 or 25.7, I also setup the declination angle on my dish to 30 - 4.30 = 25.7 and point my dish to my true south that I found it was 180 + 5.25 = 185.25. Now since I have a Winegard 76cm dish, I wasn't able to setup the declination angle directly, but I had to drill an additional hole in the motor mast so I could slide the dish bracket a little bit up to get the 25.7 declination angle, but nothing. Then I read somewhere that those dishes have the angle measurents in the brackets incorrectly by 10 degrees. So I am totally confused.
I have a question, since I have to setup my dish with a certain elevation, can anybody tell me how much is the elevation for my location? I use satlet.com and enter my longitude like the position of the satellite, and it gave me an elevation angle of 60.03 for the true south, can I use the inclinometer to measure this angle when my dish is pointing to the true south?, also my dish is an offset dish, am I supposed to take this into consideration when getting the elevation angle?.
Also my FTA receiver is a pansat 3500S, if i look lets say for thr Nimiq2 and select the positioner setting to usals (even though my motor does not say anything about usals, only the gotox function) what exactly do I have to press to have the satellite move to the satellite position?
I am sorry I am asking so many questions, but I am very frustrated.
Thanks in advance for your input