martinw01908
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- My Satellite Setup
- Technomate 9100 and 90cm dish motorised
- My Location
- South East Midlands
Please help... I have a Triax 90 cm dish painted a nice weatherproof black, on the motor which is a Manhattan 100 Diseqc. The pole is straight with spirit level. I have managed to get 1 degree west with 72% signal (and hotbird too manually) whilst looking for 1 west. The problem is that I can't get any other sats apart from 1 west when I move the rotor. The only thing I can think of is that I have set up the mount wrongly.
I have set the mount to as near to 52 latitude as I can see. (Scale not very clear) The sliding mount on the triax dish reads 25 degrees elevation to get 1 west. Is this correct? My wall is south facing.
1. I am confused about the USALs on the Fortec star reciever, should I be using that or diseq mode? When in disquec mode I select 5 west it moves the motor to 30 degrees!. But USALS appears to move the dish to roughly the right place. But still no signal. I set up by moving the rotor to 1 degree then I moved the dish until I found 1 west so its not that bit which is out. I notice that is disquec mode you can nudge the dish manually but that still doesn't find me any more sats.
2. My latitude is 52.4 N longitude, 0.7 W. I have entered this into the recievers USALS setup screen and it moves the dish to 0.1 west when on 0.8W which by calculations in the setup guides is correct. But if I go to 28.2 it wants to move the dish to 30 something degrees when I thought it should be 28.2 - 0.7 = 27.5. Is this correct>?
Please help I am kind of getting there now!¬
I have set the mount to as near to 52 latitude as I can see. (Scale not very clear) The sliding mount on the triax dish reads 25 degrees elevation to get 1 west. Is this correct? My wall is south facing.
1. I am confused about the USALs on the Fortec star reciever, should I be using that or diseq mode? When in disquec mode I select 5 west it moves the motor to 30 degrees!. But USALS appears to move the dish to roughly the right place. But still no signal. I set up by moving the rotor to 1 degree then I moved the dish until I found 1 west so its not that bit which is out. I notice that is disquec mode you can nudge the dish manually but that still doesn't find me any more sats.
2. My latitude is 52.4 N longitude, 0.7 W. I have entered this into the recievers USALS setup screen and it moves the dish to 0.1 west when on 0.8W which by calculations in the setup guides is correct. But if I go to 28.2 it wants to move the dish to 30 something degrees when I thought it should be 28.2 - 0.7 = 27.5. Is this correct>?
Please help I am kind of getting there now!¬