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Old 01-03-2008, 02:34 PM
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OK back to basics. Run the dish out to 123 and with the receiver and a small tv out at the dish gently push up and then down on the dish. Use a tp you have signal on like the 11800 you listed earlier. Did signal increase in one of the 2 directions? Write down if it was up or down. Now run all the way east to the furthest sat you can see/lock and repeat the up/down. Write down results.

IF you had signal increase on both ends when in opposite directions (push up at 123 increased and down in the east or visa versa) you are not aligned on true south. Move the entire assembly on the mast a tiny bit in the direction of up increased signal. Did I mention a tiny bit? 123 is out near the end for you so it will not take very much at all. I am assuming you have most all the other sats in the arc.

If your findings are equal. In other words down on both ends increased signal or up increased signal that is motor elevation. Adjust accordingly. Again this will be a very slight adjustment. So if down produced increased signal drop the motor setting by maybe 1/2 or a degree and increase dish setting by the same amount.

Clear as mud? Good.
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