Fortec Dish Installation in Seattle

[ahoss2000]

I am helping a friend in Seattle in aiming a Fortec 33' dish and LNB toward Telstar 5 at 97( stationary dish ). The dish angles calculations from the Sadoun Support shows Elevation of 30', Azm. of 147, LNB skew of -21. Mag. devation is -19.

My friend says when he sets the dish elevation to 30' by using the numbers on the back of the dish, the face of the dish itself is almost perpendicular to earth. He is questioning if he should use the LNB arm to set the dish elevation! When he does that, the numbers on the back shows around 55, and his satellite meter shows some signal. Although he can not see the TelS 5 yet. I said no, but would like to get some other opinions on it.

Thanks for your ideas.

[rainman]

the dish will look that way what you got to remember is the dish points 22 degrees higher than it looks do to the offset.

[elgemcdlf]

Does he have the dish assembled correctly? As Rainman states these little dishes do appear to be looking far lower than they actually are. Being that far north and roughly at 123 to shoot for 97 I would think the dish to appear to have very little elevation.

[ahoss2000]

He has the dish assembled correctly as he said when he had the bracket up side down, it was not assembling correctly. So I told him to use the degrees on the back of the dish and be patient and vary + and - 7 degrees at each Azm. setting.

I know with my M1 system in Florida, if I am looking at satellites pass 120', my dish elevation is very low too.

Thanks.

[be236]

Assuming your assemble is "plumb," go by the measurement on the back of the dish, at the edge of the metal bar that slides thru the readings.

Also, this is a biggie that got me when I did my first install: Set your Fortec dish 5 degrees higher! So if you're supposed to be at 30 deg, set your elevation to 35 deg. This should get you IA5.. This one step got me my signal.. before that I couldnt get any signal at all.