Dish alignment/tuning query

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My Satellite Setup
Sky Q, GigaBlue UE 4K, Zone 1 28.2e, Zone 1 30W. Kathrein 1m 5W - 23E
My Location
Midlands
Weather depending, I am going to set my motor up again this weekend.

My longitude is -2, so last time I aligned the dish and motor to Thor. Then I used 30W and 23.5E to fine tune it (I have no line of sight beyond 28E).

Now, I have setup a Zone 1 dish for 30W. Therefore, I will only be using the motorised dish from 5W to 23.5E. Should I still set it up using Thor as the reference satellite, or use something that is more towards the middle in-between 5W and 23.5E?

Its a 1m dish. The most marginal/fringe beams that I am aiming for is 16E which it got with no issue last time. Feeds on 10E and 23.5E - it picked up some, most likely due to limitations of my dish. Feeds on 3W would be a bonus, but the dish is no doubt to small for those.

Thanks
 
Your due south satellite will always be the same. With USALS you can use any satellite you have line-of-sight to to align the dish.
 
You set up your dish on your Longitude, in your case -2 degrees, which equates to 2 West.
If using a USALS motor you simply set everything to 0, motor, dish and LNB, then use your receiver, with the correct L:atitue, and Longitude entered, and send the motor to a suitable satellite, like 1W, then you physically align the dish, on that satellite, to peak the maximum signal quality.
Then send it to 30W, then to 23.5E, check your signal quality readings, send it back to 1W, and adjust your dish/motor brackets, to fine tune your satellite arc.
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Thanks. So I should still use 30W to fine tune the dish? (When in operation, I'll only use this dish for up to 5W).
 
u always return to your due south sat to tweak and then send out to both extremes to see its helped....you dont find tune at the extremes themselves, or you will ruin the middle and other end of arc.
 
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