Satcontrol SM3D12

[lama19]

I need some help with my motor please how do i calculate the elevation on my dish, on the sadoun website it say elevation for the Satcontrol SM3D12 is 46.5 minus declination i just want to know which declination, is it my latitude declination or the 46.5 declination i'm confuse. i live in Boston and my latitude is 42. Please help!

[DruzeTito]

You're supposed to use that formula and lookup the declination angle based on your latitude.

so for boston latitude 42 it will be 46.5 - 6.49 = 40.01 so you should set your Dish elevation to about 40.

But let me tell you, last week i did a motor install and my calculated d.e. was about 8-9 degrees less then i had to put my dish to get accurate reception of the arc so you will have to experiment.

[lama19]

Thank's Tito hope it works