Hello,
I am new to this, and still have not yet setup my Dish properly. I am waiting for a compass and other tools to make my life easier. In the meantime I was reading some documentation.
I have a 30" dish, and HH motor from this site. It states that the east / west limits for the motor are 75 degrees west and 75 degrees east.
Question #1:
Would this mean I cannot get a Satellite thats located at 13 degrees east (Hotbird 8). How about satellite Atlantic Bird located at 5 degrees west?
Here are my coordinates (Chicago, IL)
Location: 41.969862 N, 87.760273 W
Question #2:
The metal satellite mount is on a chimney. I used a buble level to make sure it is vertical. Then I connected my HH Motor. Then I connected the
satellite dish's mount to the motor. Then I connected the dish to the mount. I also connected the LNB which came with a L shaped arm to the satellite mount which is connected to the HH Motor.
The motor is at 0 (this is the dial on where the motor moves).
Do I need to make the motor's arm vertical before connecting the satellite mount? It appears that I have two adjustments, the motor and now the satellite mount which is attached the the motor arm.
Question #3:
Are my calculations correct?
On dishmount, latitude to 41.9 (or 42). As I understand, I'm supposed to set the dish latitude at its location.
HH Motor 100 deviation 23.5. Not sure why this is necessary.
Azimuth deviation 180 + 3 = 183. Where does this get physically set? Is it the same as Motor deviation? confused here... not so clear to me.
I got these calcs from this site
http://www.sadoun.com/Sat/Installati...ion-Angles.htm