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Originally Posted by wildboys
I am having a very hardtime installing my new fortec 6ft polar mount dish.I have install many motorized dishes without any problems but this one takes the cake.My zipcode is 72764.My long=94.1w lat=36.1n.I have the dish lineup with my true south which is telstar 5.My polar elevation is set to 36 measured with angle finder on the dish in the enclosed photos. |
Your dish elevation should NOT be 36 deg. It should be 90-36=54 . However, looking at the pictures, it looks like that is really what you have. Ie when I use the angle meters, I visualize whether the angle would get bigger or smaller if the dish is aimed lower towards the horizon. If the angle gets smaller, then it is elevation, but if it gets bigger, then it's latitude. I would recommend using 36.7 latitude or 53.3 elevation, but that will be fine tuned.
You didn't mention setting your declination. I'd recommend using 5.13 Set this by measuring the angle for your elevation as you have done, and also measure an angle along a staight edge layed across the big circular ring where you mount attaches to the dish. Zero declination would be if these two measurements were the same, ie parallel, but you want the dish lower toward the south horizon by 5.13 degrees. (Obviously you can't get this precision, but try to get just a hair more than 5 degrees difference between the two measurements.) I can see that you have some declination in there, but I wasn't sure whether you actually measured it.
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Originally Posted by wildboys
I have a Chaparral Corotor II+ C/Ku Feed with lnb's.When i got everything assembled i pointed the dish towards G16 and checked all tp and got no picture on any tp's.I then slowly move the dish across the clarke's belt and could not get any pictures on my cband analog receiver.I then switched to my coolsat 5000 receiver to see if i had any signal.I had a signal of 94 and a quality signal of 7 on what i think is telstar 5 it is my true south and i have a motorized 1.2 meter dish so i know where to point the dish to get a signal.I first moved the whole mast very slowly to see if i would get a better quality reading on T5.The meter did not change so i raised and lowered the elevation but still no signal.I have double checked all my connections the plumbness of the pole changed lnb's but i cannot get a signal on any satellite.I am enclosing pictures of my install.If anyone see anthing i am doing wrong including my elevation settings please let me here your suggestions. |
You don't say how you set your polarity. If you follow the CoRotor instructions, they tell you (via a little tool) to have the ku lnb at about 10:30 and the C-band lnb at 4:30 when looking at the dish from the front. This assumes that you can set H and V at +45 or -45 via your analog receiver. They do this in case you have a receiver that can't go past zero or 90, so that you can fine tune polarity. But it means that if you don't set the polarity, you will be half way between H and V. I can't tell from the pictures where you have the polarity, plus I'm not sure what capability your analog receiver has for adjusting it. When you have your Coolsat connected, I'm assuming that you have no way to set polarity.
I'm seeing analog on Tp-13 and 4 right now, on G3r. Not sure if either of these is permanent or if they come and go. On T6 Tp 1(s), 7(s),15 , 17, 16, 18, 22, 24 are giving analog right now.
I would concentrate on finding one of these analog channels, and set the polarity on them. I'd also recommend slaving the Coolsat via splitters and DC-blocks, unless it's able to control polarity.