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Originally Posted by Doofuss
I have since re-aligned dish to an a specific active transponder and re-autosearched 72-138 from 121w and recieved 150+- FTA
I have more questions but might need to start new appropriately placed threads to deal with them.
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That's good, and certainly means that you're close, but you still may be out of alignment, because alignment is a specific process, which you seem to have short cut a bit. There are a lot more than 150+ FTA, but that may well be appropriate for an auto-search that only looks at pre-programmed transponders. Hopefully you'll start find lots more when you start to do power scans. But if you start to notice known transponders that are weak or not there I'd recommend that you start doing some pull down, push up tests to make sure you are really centered on these sats. If you're centered on say 123 and 72, then you're OK, but if you find that you're not, you'll probably want to go back and follow one of the alignment processes in more detail. This process should be a bit easier (although it will be complicated a bit with respect to your altered longitude) since you've found the satellites needed.