east satellite

[billo]

if i have a true south of 182.5 what is my eastern most sat and western most? my latitude is37.3n and longitude 87.4.. i am able to peak amc3 at 86to93 but still will not track the arc correctly

[Reinhold]

Your motor elevation should be 37.3,dish elevation asper instructions.
You then need to aquire a signal by slightly rotating your motor east to west and slightly changing the dish elevation up and down until you have quality.Your east and west limits should be appr. 50' east and west depending on your motor.
Reinhold.

[pmb1010]

billo,

setting up a motor can be tricky.

The procedure is this:

1) have the motor move to "0" or reference point (exactly center).

2) find our south heading, add/subtract to get your actual compass setting. Walk away from your dish, about 50 feet. Put a stick in the ground at that spot, using that heading. Go back to your dish, and point it at the stick. Go to stick, and line up by eye your LNB dish's arm to be pointing right at you. THis is important setting, ask if you need more help.

Set your motor bracket to the setting specified above posting. Lock that down, and leave it there.

3) have a small TV and the receiver with you out near the dish. Now, find AMC3 on the lists, and put in your LONG/LAT into the receiver settings.
Have the motor drive to AMC3. (It wont move much).

4) adjust receiver to active transponder. If you have already seen channels (ie: PBS) then you know what to look for.
Adjust the hole motor side to side, and the dish elevation a bit till you lock in on the PBS sats.

Now tighten things up.

Now drive the motor to IA5 and see if you are getting singnals. You should be on the arc, or very close to it. Tweak if necessary. Even pulling the dish with 1 finger down or up a bit will tell you if settings need to be tweaked, look for increase in quality signal level as you adjust things.

Good luck. Report back results.