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Originally Posted by crapsRfun
OK - how do I tweak the western sats without messing up the eastern ones?
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You tweak the western sats (or eastern if you live in the west) by making very slight adjustments by loosening the bolts holding the motor to the pole, and moving the whole assembly. I usually draw a pencil line on the pole, and the mount, and move it barely more than the thickness of a pencil line. Then I use the buttons on the motor to bump the motor back and forth to find the best quality. If it is better than before the adjustment, then you're going the right direction, if worse, then go back on the other side of the pencil line. Note though, that the quality doesn't always get better immediately when you make the adjustment. Sometimes it gets worse, and only gets better when you do the bumping via the buttons on the motor. Generally you should do this on the the last sat to the west that you can see at all, and it should improve things so that you can then see the further west sats. You should NOT touch dish or motor elevation while trying to tweak your western sats.
In theory, moving the whole assembly on a western sat won't affect the tracking for sats to your south, and adjusting the elevations don't have much affect on the tracking of the western sats, which is why you adjust elevations on a southern sat and rotate on the pole while on a western sat.
Moving the whole assembly on the pole WILL affect the sync though, which may affect how well USALS works (if your motor is properly calibrated re it's zero, it should improve, if the motor isn't calibrated, USALS performance may get worse), but this shouldn't affect the tracking.
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