HH100 motorised set up elevation help

dannan

I know the latitude is 51.5 and that is what the motor elevation should be but the dish I"m not sure about. The local sat shop told me 31 but the motor manual says 22.6. I"ve tried both but I"m having trouble finding Thor 1w signal. I"m using USALS with a TM1500+ and a 80cm dish.I would appreciate some advice on this as its been 4 days now with no joy.
My location is coulsdon in Surrey Latitude=51.3193 , Longitude= -0.1477

rolfw

Some motors have a latitude setting, some an elevation setting, some have both, which one is yours?

The 22.6 is probably the declination setting for the dish bracket.

At the end of the day, once you get the motor setting correct, you don't need to know the dish setting, as long as it is three or four degrees off the vertical, you can then swing the whole assembly around to approximately due south and adjust the dish elevation (declination) until you find Thor 1W.

PS. Don't play with USALS or drive the motor with the receiver until you've found 1W, then you can drive it to 1W and readjust to make the setup accurate for your location.

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dannan

Its the latitude setting on the motor, I"m sure on that. I suppose a second person would be handy to watch the signal on the screen. Alot of my effort is in going to and from the dish to where the tv/receiver is. So far I"ve been pointing the dish, with motor at reference 0, roughly in a southerly direction quite a bit west of the next doors sky dish which would be 28. As I say its a rough shot at due south. Then I enter the latitude/longitude in the receiver and select Thor1w and press Go to. So you say I have to find Thor first and then drive the motor to 1w and then move the whole outfit back to find the best signal? I"ll have a go this evening. Thanks for your advice.

rolfw

Well you can certainly send the motor to Thor 1W first, but then what you ideally need is a portable TV on a long lead so that you can see what is happening as you very slowly raise and lower the dish declination and swing the whole assembly back and forth. A little satbeeper meter would help your cause.

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