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Originally Posted by rainman
sounds like alot of trouble when its not that hard to set your pole plumb in the beginning.  |
Yep. I think the only time I'd consider it worth the trouble is if you already had a pole set in concrete, and it somehow got tilted. That Arc-Set thing makes it easy though, at least for a big dish. The fellow (I think he called his company Gormet Entertainment or something like that) set the three levels specifically for your latitude so that you just go outside and make a few adjustments to get the levels on the mark, and you're in alignment. People used to swear by it on the web. I didn't buy mine from him, but instead got one used, so it wasn't set properly for my location, but I calibrated mine using my already aligned dish, then took it over to another dish, and dialed it right in. All I had to do was rotate on pole for true south to get reception.
But yes, it's much easier to make the pole plumb in the first place.