after you do all that reading, I assume you have dish mounted on motor, and on good solid mounting pole, all level etc.
- put motor at "reference" or zero setting
- line up everything to 185 degrees on a compass
- Put in your longitue and latitude on the motor settings screen in your receiver. Make sure it's N and W on the settings.
- Pick AMC5 as the satellite and put transponder on 11742V
- have a TV & the receiver out by the dish & motor, makes lining up easier.
- motor will move (not much) to AMC5
- very slowly, adjust motor on pole side to side, and dish elevation up and down to find Utah Education channel. The adjustment is very touchy. 1/8" adjustment will lose the picture & quality signal level. Do a scan and see if you get some stations.
Tighten everything down. Now have the motor move to
IA5 and see if you can get some channels. Fine tune as needed.