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<blockquote data-quote="Red alert" data-source="post: 1085721" data-attributes="member: 414470">Thanks for the detailed information. Been very busy these days so not been able to look into it. Sounds complicated but even if I were to eventually setup inverted dish I dont think 15cm gain in height would help too much. Attaching a longer pole might be more straight forward. For now I will leave as it is and in the future if I have a south facing garden ill put up a 1.5m dish.However it seems I have introduced a further error in my current setup, and as usual I need the forums help. I couldn't resist and tried to peak the signal further by seeing if I can fine tune the north\south axis of the mast, which was 0.2 of a degree out. In the process I made the pole 1 degree out north/south because I must have turned one of the turnbuckles too tight and it pulled one of the hook bolts out. Setup is still very stable and East/west remains in good alignment. I read that North/South doesn't really have to be spot on to follow the arc and we can make adjustments to the motor to follow the arc? What kind of adjustments are necessary if the north/south is out by 1 degree for example? I am picking up signal good in the middle of arc east of 1 west but declines from 26 east with 40% signal. 28 east is still 100%, 39 east is 47% max. I wont be able to use the modified motor angles because pole is not 100% on north/south? Should the motor angle still be my latitude even if 1 degree out?Any help appreciated</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Red alert, post: 1085721, member: 414470"] Thanks for the detailed information. Been very busy these days so not been able to look into it. Sounds complicated but even if I were to eventually setup inverted dish I dont think 15cm gain in height would help too much. Attaching a longer pole might be more straight forward. For now I will leave as it is and in the future if I have a south facing garden ill put up a 1.5m dish. However it seems I have introduced a further error in my current setup, and as usual I need the forums help. I couldn't resist and tried to peak the signal further by seeing if I can fine tune the north\south axis of the mast, which was 0.2 of a degree out. In the process I made the pole 1 degree out north/south because I must have turned one of the turnbuckles too tight and it pulled one of the hook bolts out. Setup is still very stable and East/west remains in good alignment. I read that North/South doesn't really have to be spot on to follow the arc and we can make adjustments to the motor to follow the arc? What kind of adjustments are necessary if the north/south is out by 1 degree for example? I am picking up signal good in the middle of arc east of 1 west but declines from 26 east with 40% signal. 28 east is still 100%, 39 east is 47% max. I wont be able to use the modified motor angles because pole is not 100% on north/south? Should the motor angle still be my latitude even if 1 degree out? Any help appreciated [/QUOTE]

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