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<blockquote data-quote="archive10" data-source="post: 899454">I am fairly certain that the dish pointing sites merely calculate the theoretical skew, and does not consider any extra skew caused deliberately by operator.Even the pointing ability of the sites too are sometimes several degrees out (I have empirical evidence of).The precision of these sites must be considered in the light of them being *free* to use. You get whay you pay for. Just getting any reply to email should probably be considered positive (somebody actually bothers to reply!)...but honestly, can we really rely on them for point our dishes?The best reception is the one you get on your dish while adjusting it to maximise signal and S/N ratio for the specific needs of a specific installation/user, not the one that some web-site piggy-backing onto google earth claims using a bunch of calculations of ideal positioning of satellites 38000 km into space...This is why we have you guys, the installers, you know, with years' of hard earned experience and plenty of clever field-strength meters to maximise reception in a jiffy.Dishpointer etc are nice helpful means of getting a bearing, but pointing the dish is a matter of hands-on optimising!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="archive10, post: 899454"] I am fairly certain that the dish pointing sites merely calculate the theoretical skew, and does not consider any extra skew caused deliberately by operator. Even the pointing ability of the sites too are sometimes several degrees out (I have empirical evidence of). The precision of these sites must be considered in the light of them being *free* to use. You get whay you pay for. Just getting any reply to email should probably be considered positive (somebody actually bothers to reply!) ...but honestly, can we really rely on them for point our dishes? The best reception is the one you get on your dish while adjusting it to maximise signal and S/N ratio for the specific needs of a specific installation/user, not the one that some web-site piggy-backing onto google earth claims using a bunch of calculations of ideal positioning of satellites 38000 km into space... This is why we have you guys, the installers, you know, with years' of hard earned experience and plenty of clever field-strength meters to maximise reception in a jiffy. Dishpointer etc are nice helpful means of getting a bearing, but pointing the dish is a matter of hands-on optimising! [/QUOTE]

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