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Old 02-07-2008   #1
nistleboy
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sat motor help

hi all
been trying to put up a motorised dish and well lost.my Latitude: 54.710°and Longitude: -6.186° i set my motor to 54 in lat the angle of dish as 24 .when i put my settings in usals i put 54.71 north as lat and 00.6 west as long cant seem to find a minus button so put in the two 00.i have the sat pointing to true south i have tried to get thor and the sat moves to close to wall and seems to be at an odd angle. when i looked at dish pointer thor is slightly ahead of me close to true south.the two things i am thinking when i point the dish at true south hoe does the rec know this .i was going to put in astra 1 which i have tried through dish pointer let the motor move to it and try and correct it by hand. also no matter what i do i get level synal 88 and quality is 20to 22 percent any ideas please.there is no houses in front of me just a field i have the dish pointing 45 deg of the pole but every thing is straight pointing true s.please help i really dont know what else to do.
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