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<blockquote data-quote="easysat" data-source="post: 102287" data-attributes="member: 175305">Tell us how you've been trying to do things so far and I am sure someone can give you a few tips.You need to calculate the azimuth and elevation to get Hotbird (or other satellite) at your location. You need the some software for this and knowledge of your longitude and latitude. I would use at least a magnetic compass to get the dish pointing in approximately the right direction (azimuth). Then use the scale on the dish mount to get the dish elevation right. If there is no elevation scale to help you, the dish needs to be almost vertical when viewed from the side so set it vertical and then push the top back slightly. Then loosen the dish mounting on its mounting pole so that the dish can be turned a few degrees east or west. We're talking tiny movements here so don't loosen the bolts too much - just enough so that the dish moves when you tap it gently with your hand. Go one way first and then back the other way to see if you can pick up a signal for a known channel on the satellite. If no luck, change the dish elevation and repeat. Once you get a signal, check it is a channel on the satellite you want (it's easy to get the wrong satellite just by moving your dish 3 or 4°.) Then maximise the signal strength and quality by very small movements of the dish E and W. When you got the maximum tighten the bolts to stop the dish moving E or W and then optimise the elevation angle. You can repeat this process a couple of times until you think everything is as perfect as possible. You can then try rotating the LNB in its mount to maximise quality both for a horizontally polarised channel and a vertically polarised channel (but this shouldn't be too critical).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="easysat, post: 102287, member: 175305"] Tell us how you've been trying to do things so far and I am sure someone can give you a few tips. You need to calculate the azimuth and elevation to get Hotbird (or other satellite) at your location. You need the some software for this and knowledge of your longitude and latitude. I would use at least a magnetic compass to get the dish pointing in approximately the right direction (azimuth). Then use the scale on the dish mount to get the dish elevation right. If there is no elevation scale to help you, the dish needs to be almost vertical when viewed from the side so set it vertical and then push the top back slightly. Then loosen the dish mounting on its mounting pole so that the dish can be turned a few degrees east or west. We're talking tiny movements here so don't loosen the bolts too much - just enough so that the dish moves when you tap it gently with your hand. Go one way first and then back the other way to see if you can pick up a signal for a known channel on the satellite. If no luck, change the dish elevation and repeat. Once you get a signal, check it is a channel on the satellite you want (it's easy to get the wrong satellite just by moving your dish 3 or 4°.) Then maximise the signal strength and quality by very small movements of the dish E and W. When you got the maximum tighten the bolts to stop the dish moving E or W and then optimise the elevation angle. You can repeat this process a couple of times until you think everything is as perfect as possible. You can then try rotating the LNB in its mount to maximise quality both for a horizontally polarised channel and a vertically polarised channel (but this shouldn't be too critical). [/QUOTE]

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