Aligning Sats

ricky10

Hi

I have a motorised sat, which got installed by an engineer. However, there were some issues so I had to reset my sat.

I have tried using USALS (Solihull, Birmingham) but found whilst it detected satellites automatically, the signal was not always as strong as manually searching. (I am a complete satellite beginner. Is this normal?)

Therefore I am manually locating satellites. This is a bit of a mission, as I have to scan and hope that the scan signal gets stronger and then play about. I have done this successfully for Hotbird, an Astra sat, and Turksat.

Problem is it is guesswork.

Is there a cheap device that I could connect between my sat and receiver, which would display (maybe a LCD display) the position of my sat?

That way I know the sat is pointing at 42E, an dall I have to do is fine tune for the perfect signal.

Thanks in advance.

Ricky

gameboy

Use a satellite meter - Lidl were selling them a month ago.

It won't tell you what satellite but when you're getting a signal. They're great for checking that both East and West satellites are OK with your system.

Connect between the LNB and the receiver then move the dish.

Sure you could find one on Ebay .

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