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Old 12-21-2006, 02:33 PM
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Getting nowhere, really need help

Equipment:

31" FC80P Fortec Star 80cm Offset Satellite Dish
Digipower SG-2100 DiSEqC Motor
Invacom QPH-031

Location:

36.14 N, 80.30 W

I have been at this for a few days now with no real success. I have had no luck hitting any linear satellites, I can not get any signal level over 50% and 0 quality. I can however hit a circular satellite with 50% signal and 98% quality.

I first tried aiming at AMC5 as my true south, I could net get a lock. East-west, dish up-down nothing. Tried SBS6 still no luck.

So I tried aiming the dish at nimiq2 instead as my true south. After I was able to get a lock and did a scan it turns out I was hiting Nimiq1.

I've verified that my usals was moving the dish correctly with the gotox calculator.

I've tried moving the motor scale one degree in either direction and re-aiming. No luck. After reading these forums, I no thats a no-no but I had to try something.

I have attached some pics to see if anyone can give me any clues. Now Im wondering If my lnb arm is bent or perhaps simply the wrong one.
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