What is my true SOUTH satellite?

[boz]

I needed to locate the correct azimuth setting for my WaveFrontier toroidal dish and I found this the be the best way. Aligning one of these so it can track properly can be a bear and I had it almost perfect the first time.
First I made sure my pole was plumb. Then I set the skew to 0 degrees and checked it with my level.
The T90 has 2 small holes drilled into the bottom of the main and subreflector. They seem to be exactly located at the midpoints. They are perfect to use for alignment. I hung a plumb weight on a line from both holes.
Next, knowing what my desired Azimuth was from the calculation given me by Wavefrontier (must be registered) I went to the US Naval observatory site:

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.html

I entered the current day, date and my location and asked for a solar chart with 1 minute intervals. I checked the chart for the time of day when the sun was closest to my desired azimuth. I then synchronized my watch to "atomic" wall clock.
Before the calculated time, I took a plain white card with me to the dish, and did a rough alignment. The dish is pointed at the sun when the shadows of the two plumb lines coincide on the card. When the exact time came, I double checked the alignment and tightened down the dish.
The rest was simple. I set my elevation and skew according to the calculations provided by WaveFrontier and I was nearly perfectly tracking the sats.
I'm planning on doing a motorized dish at some point, and I'll try to figure out how to use the sun to align that too I imagine.

[seatis]

Can somebody tell me when i have to add or subtract?

[Dug]

My longitude is 120.27w. Would it matter if I used EchoStar 7 or EchoStar 9 for my south satellite?

[dapack5]

my latitude is 26.615302n and my longitude is 81.61046w:
my wuestion is does this make nimiq2 my southern most satellite at 82 degrees?
here's why i'm asking:
if i get good strong signal/quality readings on galaxy10 then i lose all signall on hispasat D at 30 degrees west! and vice versa, i am using an sg 2100 htoh motor and a fortecstar .90m dish. what could be my main problem with this install? plumb/elevation/azimuth?

SG2100 manual says that if my lattitude is 26 then my elevation angle is 64 and that's where i have it set to on the motor bracket do i subtract the 4.377 angle from anything there or what?

thanks in advance

[starman]

Nimiq 2 is your southern most satellite. The sg-2100 has a latitude scale on one side and an elevation scale on the other...at least mine does. Set the 26(your latitude) on the latitude scale side, on the other side it will be close to 64.. The 4.377 angle you mentioned is probably your declination. With a sg-2100 motor you need to subtract your declination from the motor shaft angle. The shaft angle is 30 degrees, so 30-4.377=25.6. so you need to set the elevation on the dish scale, not the motor scale to 25.6. You said you can get galaxy 10 but not Hispasat, there is a lot of territory between the two, can you get other satellites, just not Hispasat?

[dapack5]

Nimiq 2 is your southern most satellite. The sg-2100 has a latitude scale on one side and an elevation scale on the other...at least mine does. Set the 26(your latitude) on the latitude scale side, on the other side it will be close to 64.. The 4.377 angle you mentioned is probably your declination. With a sg-2100 motor you need to subtract your declination from the motor shaft angle. The shaft angle is 30 degrees, so 30-4.377=25.6. so you need to set the elevation on the dish scale, not the motor scale to 25.6. You said you can get galaxy 10 but not Hispasat, there is a lot of territory between the two, can you get other satellites, just not Hispasat?

yes i can get pas9,amazonas,IA-5,amc3,T-6, and several others,but,quality on T-6 PBS channels is only around 68% and breaking up too,IA-5 i have a sub for inxworld and quality isn't good on that sat either around 70%, i'm using the Invacom circular/linear lnb that i purchased from Sadoun and if i get a 95 to 97% quality signal on 82 ( just to check for proper tracking ) then 119 is only around 72 to 76 % and i totally lose G10 and still wouldn't have hispasat either. today i got hispasat @ 97% quality while trying to adjust the dish,but,had nothing on G10 or 119.

[Spawn]

My latitude is 28.0 N , Longtitude is 81.7 W , my true south compass reading is 185 S and my true south satellite is Nimiq2 at 82.0 W.... Is this correct?
Im using HH90 with a fortec classic NA sat receiver. How about motor and dish elevation, whats the difference and how to adjust it?

[rainman]

yes that would be correct.

[rainman]

sorry about the short reply above was having internet problems.
you are correct on your south sat.
motor elevation should be the same as your lat.
for dish elevation ch www.sadoun.com under Installation.
go to motorized installation.

[gloworm]

my longtitude is 85 and amc9 i believe is my true south satellite,so now how do i figure out if i have to add or subtract 14 thanks,i will appreciate the help

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