You have to have patients with the first install you do. Your equipment is all new and should be working. Don't get frustrated. You just have to take it step by step. Here are the steps I take that I hope will help you.
1. Make sure your mounting pole is absolutely vertically plumb.
2. Find the true south which is 180 degrees plus some number to compensate for magnetic north. It is different for different locations. You can also do the sun shadow thing at
solar noon. You find out when solar noon is on the internet for your region.
3. Set your angle of motor to your Latitude.
4. Set your dish to the inclination noted in the motor manual for your latitude.
5. Point your dish due south.
6. Take a tv and your receiver out near the dish and hook up the thing. Coax from the L on the LNB to the motor. L, linear signals are more common on the satellites. Some are C, circular, but few and not need for setting up your motorized dish yet.
7. Set up your
Mercury II for your Lat and Long. You can get your exact Lat and Long on MSN Map or Google Earth. Say, go to Satellite 97 degrees and go into the USALS and input your correct Lat and Long. Set the type of LNB to the 10750 (I think that is the number,,, well which ever one is the 10,000), I think this is for a Linear LNB. Also go into settings on the Mercury and turn on the sound for the meter. The sound helps you while you do the fine tuning.
8. Tell your receiver to move the dish to 97 degrees. Hopefully the motor will push the dish towards 97. Once there, you need to fine tune the dish direction.
9. Move your dish very short steps left and right. Try for one degree at a time. Wait at each move to see if the receiver picks up more signal. Remember, patients is needed... mainly at this point. Once you feel you are tuned the best you can be... then loosen your dish mount, and adjust the angle of the dish up and down by one degree each way. Once you have it locked in as close as you can, do it horizontally again, and then vertically again. It helps if you do horizontal and vertical twice in order to pull onto targe.
10. Check a few of the frequencies on the 97 satellite and see how strong the signal is. You can scan through the different transponder frequencies in the USALS window any time during the tuning.
11. I hope you have more quality signal than 35 at this point. You can now scan for channels. You can do the powerscan, but that will pick up all stations, scrambled and not scrambled... Might as well just scan for the FTA. What ever channels are tuned into, check the Lyngsat website to make sure you have tuned to the correct satellite. If it is not the correct satellite, find the satellite that has the channels you see, and that will tell you how to re-align the dish, which direction.
Be patient, and your equipment is probably all in order. You need to do one step at a time and it should work for you. Good luck and keep us posted.
Regards, Vit