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<blockquote data-quote="Terryl" data-source="post: 746788" data-attributes="member: 369937">You need several things before you install that motor, one is an absolutely vertical and stable mounting mast, it has to be vertical front to back and left to right, and be stable enough to keep from moving when the motor turns the dish.Second, you need to align the dish and motor due South from your location, (motor needs to be at zero first) if your off a few degrees left or right you wont track the Clark belt correctly (where all the satellites are) and will miss satellites at ether end.Third, the elevation of your dish is determined by your latitude, you should go to dishpointer.com as Robbo mentioned, you can zoom in on your location and this will tell you your correct latitude, the dish needs to be set to zero elevation to start, the motor has a latitude indication on its side, this needs to be set to as close to your latitude as possible and if it has one, you need a zero skew setting on the dish or LNB as the motor will skew the dish and LNB for you as it turns.The last thing to do is try and find your “Due South” satellite, this may be a few degrees to the left or right of “Due South” but it is your starting point for your arc, (and your receivers reference satellite) dishpointer.com or Lyingsat.com can help you with finding this satellite, (the closest one to your longitude at your location) the others will fall in line (with a few minor tweakings) once you get these settings done right first.I have a link to an &quot;H to &quot;H&quot; motor installation, it may be for this side of the big pond (might or might not be for your type of motor) but it may help you out on the first parts.hXXp://sadoun.com/Sat/Installation/HH-mount-installation.htm</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Terryl, post: 746788, member: 369937"] You need several things before you install that motor, one is an absolutely vertical and stable mounting mast, it has to be vertical front to back and left to right, and be stable enough to keep from moving when the motor turns the dish. Second, you need to align the dish and motor due South from your location, (motor needs to be at zero first) if your off a few degrees left or right you wont track the Clark belt correctly (where all the satellites are) and will miss satellites at ether end. Third, the elevation of your dish is determined by your latitude, you should go to dishpointer.com as Robbo mentioned, you can zoom in on your location and this will tell you your correct latitude, the dish needs to be set to zero elevation to start, the motor has a latitude indication on its side, this needs to be set to as close to your latitude as possible and if it has one, you need a zero skew setting on the dish or LNB as the motor will skew the dish and LNB for you as it turns. The last thing to do is try and find your “Due South” satellite, this may be a few degrees to the left or right of “Due South” but it is your starting point for your arc, (and your receivers reference satellite) dishpointer.com or Lyingsat.com can help you with finding this satellite, (the closest one to your longitude at your location) the others will fall in line (with a few minor tweakings) once you get these settings done right first. I have a link to an "H to "H" motor installation, it may be for this side of the big pond (might or might not be for your type of motor) but it may help you out on the first parts. hXXp://sadoun.com/Sat/Installation/HH-mount-installation.htm [/QUOTE]

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