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Originally Posted by mickel1138
Ok,
Installed the Dish, an 80cm Fortec with Quad Invacom LNB, DG240 motor.
Since I live right in 97 long, I made to motor go to G25, i didn't quite move ;-).
Anyway, I tried pointing it, move it slightly, put no luck.
All I was able to get useless DN at 110, and I use it as a reference, then go back to G25, and use the signal meter to peak it. Still nothing.
Also while moving, the signal meter spikes just before it gets to 110, also at 119, and when I try to correct it by moving the dish, I can't seem to get a decent signal.
I also wonder if I pointed the dish correctly, I set the motor as instructed, and set the dish mount to a little below 35. Motor is 63, arm is 35, dish at 30.4 (63-35=38+30.4=58.4) when I put the inclinometer on it, it doesn't read that way tho, probrably figuring it wrong. Anyway, G25 is at 179.7 and 57.7 for me. So maybe 1 degree to high.
Did I get everything right, does it just take more patience. Was pointing the thing for about 3 hours. And picked up some stuff that wasn't G25, got a signal on the meter, but no level.
Any hints?
Thanks,
Mickel |
What is your latitude. I don't understand your calculations at all, ie where did the "30.4 (63-35=38+30.4=58.4)" come from????? Does this motor have an "elevation" scale or just a "latitude" scale? I can't remember, but if it has elevation and latitude, make sure that you are using the right one. Basically, the motor "latitude" setting should be about 0.6 degrees more than your latitude, and the motor "elevation" should be 0.6 degrees less than 90 minus your latitude. Your dish elevation should be 35 minus your declination (which you can calculate via
http://wejones.ftdata.com/bjdishcalc2.htm ), which will give a dish elevation somewhere around 30, depending upon your latitude, however, as has been mentioned many dozens of times in this forum, the dish elevation scales on these Fortec dishes can be WAY OFF, perhaps +/- 5 degrees, depending upon which dish and which bracket you have. The inclinometer won't help much on the dish elevation, since there isn't any meaningful place to measure what you need to measure, although it can verify the motor elevation settings.
Also very important, you say you didn't have any luck finding G25, but you don't say how you're trying to find it, ie the LO settings in the receiver, and what transponder are you monitoring while searching, etc. As you have found out, using those little
signal meters can be frustrating when trying to find a sat in between strong DBS satellites, so you'll probably need to take your receiver and/or TV out to the dish to use the receiver's meter.