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I had to go up on the roof again because I couldn't get any channels. Turns out that a bit of lead stuff had slipped off the roof and was binding with the dish on one extreme of movement. I guess it had thrown it out a bit. Anyway I moved the lead and took a bit more care to calibrate it this...

I had a play with it today. I couldn't detect any difference it signal strength or signal quality either way so I left it about in the middle.

Please could someone tell me whether this LNB (LNBF FSKUVN) should be as close to the dish or as far from the dish as it can be (see pictures attached). The dish is a 90cm motorised Fortec Star Maplin kit.

I got it all working on Thursday night. A colleague at work lent me a power meter. To answer the original question, the dish seemed to need pointing a little higher then the markings would indicate, with the bracket that joins the LNB to the back of the dish being about 1/2 inch further out...

That's kind of how I came to the conclusion that it's at 30 deg elevation when the back of the bracket is at absolute vertical. Sounds like I was right. I will try and borrow a signal meter I think. thanks

I have spent the last two days reading stuff about setting up these systems, and I did a search on this forum for "fortec star elevation". I can't find any specific post that answers my question, which is, how do you know when a fortec star 90cm dish is at 31 deg elevation? therefore i think...

I'm trying to set up a Maplin motorised kit (SD) and not having any luck so far. Part of the problem might be that I'm trying to use the receiver itself as a strength meter, it might well be that I've been trying to tune to a signal that isn't there... Anyway I'll explain. Luckily I have a...