Hint for motorized installs

[spongella]

Here's a tip: Those refrigerator magnets that are in your kitchen can be used as markers on your satellite dish mast. See the pics below. I took one of the refrigerator magnets and cut it into shapes of an arrow (pic 1). Next, I epoxied a metal pin to my bolt clamp and painted it a bright yellow. Now, when I aim the dish to magnetic south, I place a magnet (made from the refrigerator magnet) at that spot as a future reference. Then, when I locate Galaxy 19 at 97W I place a second magnetic arrow there for future reference.

In the third picture, I placed a magnetic arrow to the elevation angle that I need, also as future reference just in case the dish loosens.

Lots of uses for these things, hope this helps.

Spongella

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Spongella

I always thought there must most be more benefit to those refrigerator magnets. Thanks for the tip.