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Originally Posted by Bibbler
Here's my current experience..
I'm up and working, but quite sure it is not tracking correctly. In my case, it does appear the problem is the dish elevation. My mast is level and I am lined up with the compass at 189 motor ele is set to 41 deg (my zip is 15012)....
The 38.8 dish ele (31" with HH90) gives me no results... Currently I have it at 56 and get part of the band.. if I lower it to 45 I get another part..... and somewhere else, I get another part...
I tried here (I have lots of trees) and at my Dad's house (no Trees), same result. I'm sure it is alignment now (I did have a bad receiver that through me a loop but I replaced it and all is well)....
So (just cause I want to play a lot)... I ordered a new protractor which should be here in a few days and will set the dish to that... I assume the scale on the dish is off a tad (this is just me trying to remember the old C Band days) so I assume I will set it to 38.8 and see what happens there and work up from there..
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First of all, I am confused about just what motor you have? The subject of this thread indicates that you have an
SG2100, however in your second paragraph above, you mention an HH90. The proper dish elevation will be different for different motors. You seem to be using a dish elevation consistent with the HH90, but it is way off for an SG2100.
Also, you say you entered 41 for your dish elevation, ie your latitude. I think that the HH90 has only a latitude scale, which is OK, but the SG2100 has both latitude and elevation, and 41 is NOT your elevation. So anyway, which motor do you actually have???
HOWEVER, whichever motor you actually have, I don't see any way that you could receive ANY satellite if you have the dish elevation "actually" set on 56. Normally, I'd suspect that you had elevation and latitude scales mixed up, but for an SG2100, your dish elevation is off by some 30 degrees, which is way too much to explain with reversing elevation and latitude. As I said, I didn't think the HH90 had an elevation scale, but if it does, then you'd be low by about 8 degrees, which would result in your dish elevation being some 8 degrees higher, but that would only bring you up to about 46.8, not 56. Ie I don't see ANY way for you to get a sat with an actual 56 degree dish elevation.
I really have to think that you have something installed upside down, either one of the brackets with the scale on them, or maybe the whole motor assembly or something. Perhaps you could take a digital picture of the
installation, with enough resolution to see the scales?