What sat do I use to setup my motor?

weldermk

Hi,
I live in Iceland LAT 65.0 LON-14.2 have a CM 1.2m polar mount dish. I need to know what my best sat is to setup my motor, is it thor??
Mark

Robbo

You need to read one of the motorised dish setup guides.


But, 15W should do it, it's your closest and looks like 12608H will be receivable on your size dish. If you turn the polar mount angle to just less than 1 degree west of 0 before alignment, your azimuth should be about right.

kerrywez

Hi mate the satellite you need is 15W, as robbo says. As a rule you set you dish up on the satellite nearest to your location and Telstar 12 at 15.0°W is the one for you. You are 14 W so as robbo says set your motor shaft to just about 1 W of zero that will allow for the difference to your location 14 W and that of Telstar 12 at 15.0°W. I have not looked myself but knowing robbo very well I aam quite sure the frequency he has given you will be right.

Regards Wez

Robbo

I hope so Wez, I sent my dish there and also checked the footprint on lyngsat, BBC Persian was showing.

weldermk

Hi, Right at the moment I have 100% signal on 28.2. am I correct in thinking that I cant just turn the Actuator by hand untill in pic up 15w? as the elevation will be wrong?. If this is true, then i turn the dish and adjust the elevation to pick up 15w, then where should the dish be on Actuator? middle? of just square to the bracket?
Also if I set up for 15w then will I be able to move the Actuator by hand to every single sat im my range??
Mark
Have polar mount 1.2 CM dish with Actuator

Robbo

The polar mount should be very near to the centre when aligned to 15W, that is the point of starting there, as above for 15W in your location the polar mount needs to be set at approx 0.8 degrees west of zero.
as long as the polar mount inclination is correct, and you have set the dish declination, by finding 15W as above, tuning the dish through the arc, will enable tou to pick up the sats on it.