Need help

[mrcband]

reciver: Viewsat Extreme
LNB: Invacom Quad QPH 031
motor: sg-2100
dish size: 36 inch Fortec Star FC90Ucm
My longitude is 74
MY true south sat is SBS6 at 74


Hello, I need some help with my dish/motor install. I have a non penetrating mount too. I have made sure the pole is plum on all sides. Can you tell me how to use the disec switch ? One comes from the circular and one from the linear , i had one in port 1 and the other in port 2. I would like to know if im doing this right. I had a TV and Viewsat up on the roof to try and tweak the system with no luck. I think i may have to change some of the settings EL and Azm ? Maybe someone can tell me another satellite to point at other than SBS 6 @ 74 ?
PS> should i consider a Birdog meter ? Or is Tv on roof with Viewsat good ?

Thank you for any help you can provide

[rainman]

the tv and receiver should work just fine remember to allow 10 seconds after each move for the receiver to see the change.to hook up the disqec switch make sure it's between the lnb and motor.run cable from inb L side to port 1 of switch.run cable from c port on lnb to port 2 of the switch run the cable from the switch out port to motor.terminate all unused ports.

[Reinhold]

SBS6 is the correct one to point to.
Make sure your motor is set to your latitude.you must then adjust your dish elevation to the recommended setting.Thats your starting point.Then you slowly adjust the dish elevation and direction by rotating your whole setup on your pole very slowly and a little at a time until you get quality.
Good luck,Reinhold.

[mrcband]

reciver: Viewsat Extreme
LNB: Invacom Quad QPH 031
motor: sg-2100
dish size: 36 inch Fortec Star FC90Ucm
My longitude is 74
MY true south sat is SBS6 at 74
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Here are the settings that i put in below. I didnt have any luck today with these settings. I know there can be some play with these numbers. I did notice today that the motor mount was not plum and i did fix it. I was thinking that was the problem? But i didnt get the linear satellites at all. I did seem to pick up some signal and quality at Nim 91 when moving the dish ? But i was trying to get sbs6 at 74 and i did try the bird at 72 with no luck. I didnt go nuts because i know that it can be hard some times. I wont give up! Any words of wisdom please reply rainman and Reinhold ? Thanks for the quick reply to my post!

Back to the drawing board here!

Mrcband!




True Azimuth: 74.01
Magn. Azimuth: 87.16

Dish Elevation: 23.67

Motor Elevation: 40.62

North Latitude: 40.6176
West Longitude: 74.0117

USA - NY - Brooklyn

[satnutwillb]

This is just a suggestion,but did you check in setup menu to make sure you have the correct settings to each port. Hope this is of some help.

[rainman]

Originally Posted by mrcband

reciver: Viewsat Extreme
LNB: Invacom Quad QPH 031
motor: sg-2100
dish size: 36 inch Fortec Star FC90Ucm
My longitude is 74
MY true south sat is SBS6 at 74
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Here are the settings that i put in below. I didnt have any luck today with these settings. I know there can be some play with these numbers. I did notice today that the motor mount was not plum and i did fix it. I was thinking that was the problem? But i didnt get the linear satellites at all. I did seem to pick up some signal and quality at Nim 91 when moving the dish ? But i was trying to get sbs6 at 74 and i did try the bird at 72 with no luck. I didnt go nuts because i know that it can be hard some times. I wont give up! Any words of wisdom please reply rainman and Reinhold ? Thanks for the quick reply to my post!

Back to the drawing board here!

Mrcband!




True Azimuth: 74.01
Magn. Azimuth: 87.16

Dish Elevation: 23.67

Motor Elevation: 40.62

North Latitude: 40.6176
West Longitude: 74.0117

USA - NY - Brooklyn

try lowering the dish elevation by 5 degrees the 90 cm u bracket was off by that much on my system.

[wejones]

Originally Posted by mrcband

.......
Here are the settings that i put in below. ......
.....

True Azimuth: 74.01
Magn. Azimuth: 87.16

.......

I think that you are confused relative to what azimuth is, and how you use it. These two numbers above are completely wrong, and I'm not sure how you used them. I "THINK" I understand how you calculated them, but if you used these numbers for the azimuth of your true south, then you are pointing in completely the wrong direction.

74 is the longitude of your true south satellite, but 74 has nothing to do with the azimuth of this sat. For true south 180 is ALWAYS your true azimuth for south, no matter where you are, and your magnetic azimuth is calculated off of this, ie something like 193 in your case (assuming that you added a 13 deg deviation above, as I didn't run the calculation for you, but that should be close). Ie if you used 87 for aiming your dish, you are aiming east instead of south, and are WAY off, and you'd be lucky to find anything at all.

Another possibility for what you might have done, is to add your magnetic deviation to the satellite longitude that you enter into receiver, and this is not correct either.

Anyway, I'm curious with respect to just what you did with these two azimuth numbers, because whatever you did to use these numbers, it was wrong.