After installing my new dish I am having problems locking a signal from
telstar 5. After several days of setting up the new dish, I am using a signal strenght meter to help me locate the satellite. I think that I am on the satellite, or at least a satellite. I am using a BL2030 pci card for a tuner. I can get signal strenght of around 70-80 only when my SR is 24000 and above on any frequency but, no lock.
The only thing that I have noticed is the the elevation on the dish doesn't seem to be right, When I set the dish for 37* on the dish and measure with my Johnson angle finder off the back of the mount of the dish then adding 24.6* for offset it seems to be off about 5* The mounting pole is perfectly level from 3 sides.
I even went as far as mounting my Direct tv LNB to the fortec and tuning into
Dtv's Satellite @ 101* and locked perfectly with signal strenght of 98.
Measuring the elevation it was still about 5* off from Dtv's elevation calulations.
I don't mind using the johnson angle finder to set elevation, but I just want to make sure that I am pointing at the right place.
I don't have a signal quality meter so it's hard to make sure that I am on telstar 5. Is there away of doing this with out one. I can't spend 150-300 dollars on meter right now...
Well just seeing if there is any ideas out there...
Thanks for your time
Bmo