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Originally Posted by dtsexpert
How accurate the USALS feature is??? It very depends on how accurate your true south is. If you need to "nudge" the dish just a little bit, it's OK. But if you have to "nudge" the dish like 2 or 3 degs to get lock, the mount is not setup precisely, meaning you will get some of the sats but not all.
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Originally Posted by ar485
Hi Michael, Thanks for your reply. However, my question is more regarding how to operator the receiver. I think I mounted my dish well enough because I could lock T5, AMC4 and G10R manually (using the push button on the motor itself). I would like to use the USALS feature of the receiver and had some questions about it. It will save me a lot of time and work if i can use that feature. Could you answer my specific questions in my original post? Thanks.
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I'll add further to what Michael said, since I went through this about a month ago. The best way to get things to work smoothly is to physically point your dish to a real true south. I mean precisely. You want to be able to point to any satellite in the arc using the receiver's USALS "move" menu option alone - no nudging with the receiver or button pushing on the motor to get it exactly right. When the motor moves the dish to the satellite using USALS, it should be pointing exactly right on its own with no further input. (By the way, I found that nudging using the motor's buttons is far more precise than nudging using the receiver's menu options.) That's my experience, anyway.
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Neil