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Originally Posted by melbfla
Hello everyone. 
First let me thank everyone for the help and time taken to inform new users like myself also I would like to thank Sadoun for a very quick turn around in a small problem with my order I will always buy from Sadoun.
Now for my question , I hope someone has a quick suggestion or fix.
I have the system shown on my signature I hope it will show ,
I live in Palm Bay FLorida. My coodinates are 28.01N and 80.67W and my true South is 186, dish elevation is 25.33.
I am using AMC5 79W as my true South Sat.
I have manage to get :
PAS9 58W
AMC5 79W
G11 91W
G3C 95W
IA5 97W
AMC4 101W
AMC1 103W
SatMex5 116.8W
Galaxy10RK 123W
My question is I want to get the Sats below but they are not comming in I must need to adjust someting but not sure what, I get 58W and 79W but not 72W and the same way on the other side of 79W. I did have to set my dish elevation at 20.
AMC6 72W
AMC3 87W
IA6 93W
and eventually Hispat 30W.
Again thanks in advance .
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Boy, if you're getting that much of the arc, I really think you've got the alignment pretty close, so before messing with the alignment, I'd check other things first. How are you looking for these sats? If you're looking for a single transponder, make sure that it's an active transponder. If you're doing a blind scan, these sometimes miss things. I'd put the thing on a known transponder, then go out to the dish, and bump the motor a bit east/west, and have someone watch the TV to see if you get a lock. You might be just a bit out of sync. Just enough to miss some channels. Although I can't imagine you missing the 12144 channel on AMC6, except that it is a bit on the narrow side. Ie sometimes blind searches don't pick up narrow transponders as well, particularly depending on what mode you choose. I'd park on the 12144 transponder, and give it a while to lock.
On IA6, I'd look for the Mexican channel, ie 12076. On AMC3, I'd look for either 12180 or 12145.