Motorised dish alignment

[skacrazy]

I've installed a motorised dish and can get the following sats

5.0E
9.0E
13.0E
19.2E
25.5E
28.2E

but nothing on the west. My question is am I only just off the arc and how much do i need to adjust the dish to get sats on the west? I couldn't find Thor although I was able to pick it up on my first attempt at alignment. I am hoping to have another go at it this weekend but want to get an idea of how much I should be moving the dish to align it and what I should expect to pick up on the west of the arc from the south of England?

My setup is -
New Horizons 80cm Satellite Dish
New Horizons NH-210 DiseqC 1.2 Motor
Icecrypt universal quad lnb
Icecrypt S3500HCCI Receiver

Thanks in advance :-)

[rikksow]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

This may help it helped me when i was starting to set mine up, you can get it on android to so you can be on your roof http://***.dishpointer.com/ while you are aligning your dish. It will roughly tell you where to point. You need to set everything up on 0.8w as it sits highest in the sky and is the nearest to south. With an 80cm dish you should pick up plenty check out ***.purplesat.com/index.php?p=1_32_DISH-SIZES and this will tell you what you need to know

[skacrazy]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

Thanks. I have that app on my iphone 4s but I wasn't confident the compass was accurate. Should Thor be pretty easy to hit and once it's mounted should I only need to adjust the elevation of the dish and not the motor?

I also can't see Badr6 at 26E but can get 25.5E. With them being so close shouldn't I get them both?

[kalpikos]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

Hello mate

First of all , your dish must be aligned correctly in order to get more sattelites.
Many sattelites from which you want to get are not strong enaph, so you will never get them with your dish.
They need bigger dish.

Badr6 at 26E is not a very strong sattelite and I'm sure that you will not get all channels.
There is some transporters with stronger signal and there you have to concentrate.
An other factor is the area you live.
I think it's better to look at kingofsat.
In this way you will know for which sattelite you can search.

[nml52]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

Start again from scratch you have a problem with alignment. firstly check all your settings on the motor for your location and dish elevation allowing for offset. If you are using usals send the motor to thor at this point the lnb must be more or less vertical then try for a signal. If this doesn't work its not the best way but if you are using usals send the dish to 13 east and tweak it for the best signal. the good thing about usals is if you get one right the others are not far off.

nml

[Mobley3]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

You will not get anything from Badr 6 in the UK with that size of dish, you should be able to receive some of the transponders from Badr 4 from this sat when your dish has been set up properly. You also need to make sure that your mounting pole is vertical in all planes.

Regards Mobley3

[thecrazybandit]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

1 west is good place to start so i would try again look for a fta channel like bbc world news then go from there

[rob45]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

hi i have set a few of my mates dishes and like thecrazybandit says always start from thor get the best signal from there then choose astra28 if that comes in then try hispasat if thats ok then you should have the right arc.

[odysseas1991]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

Make sure every thing is dead centre and aligned (your motor with dish) so that everything is perfectly vertical and centred. Also make sure your degrees on the motor scale is setup correctly, this you can workout from using your postcode on online calcultor and following instructions in the manual. Then set your box info by inputting the long and latitude (which I believe you can get off online calculators) then drive the motor via the box to 1w. So now you should your dish at 1w, and loose in yoru hands. Next you must use a compass to figure out where exactly is 1degrees west in the sky. Then you look to set it to achieve nearly 90% signal quality + on some of the stronger thor channels and secure dish. Then work east and see if you pick the major satellites such as hotbird and 28east with really strong signal. If you have done that without requiring you to adjust the dish position significantly then it seems your arc is correct. Then do the same with the west, and I think you should be able to recieve some of Hispasat which is 30west.

From what I read, your arc can only be at fault so the only thing you may need to look at is it your long/lat and also dish motor scale reading is all correct!

[sideralgr]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

I've installed a motorised dish and can get the following sats

5.0E
9.0E
13.0E
19.2E
25.5E
28.2E

but nothing on the west. My question is am I only just off the arc and how much do i need to adjust the dish to get sats on the west? I couldn't find Thor although I was able to pick it up on my first attempt at alignment. I am hoping to have another go at it this weekend but want to get an idea of how much I should be moving the dish to align it and what I should expect to pick up on the west of the arc from the south of England?

My setup is -
New Horizons 80cm Satellite Dish
New Horizons NH-210 DiseqC 1.2 Motor
Icecrypt universal quad lnb
Icecrypt S3500HCCI Receiver

Thanks in advance :-)

please check if don't have any obstacle for the western satellites first

[krimozak]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

* for Badr at 26°E you can capture with coverage " Badr-4 BSS Ku Band "



for for frequencies : look at ---flysat.com/badr.php

* you can also capture Intelsat 10-02 - Thor 5/6 @ 1° West with coverage "Intelsat 10-02 Ku-band Spot 1 " ; " Intelsat 10-02 Ku-band Spot 3/3X " & "Thor 5 T1 (Nordic region) "

for for frequencies : look at ---flysat.com/1west.php

* you can also capture Eutelsat 5 West A @ 5° West

if you can not capture these satellites you can seek the help of a technician Proffessional

[rizwan]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

You dish arc seem be in nice shape, because you are getting 28 E to 5 E, also check the footprint of sat you want to catch . I think slightly big dish is much better for this game

[nml52]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

Also check that the dish is moving west when you select the western satellites, it is possible that the dish limits could be incorrectly set.

Please come back and let us know how you get on.

nml

[joseram2000]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

For Thor, goes straight to begin to balance the antenna southern exactly your location and see where it is through dishpoint page

[sideralgr]

Re: Motorised dish alignment

try to receive 5w first, and 1w after