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<blockquote data-quote="bux186" data-source="post: 533638" data-attributes="member: 295672">Hello all i could do with a little helpi live on the isle of man and recently bought a technomate 6900 a 1m dish and a motech 2100 motor. the problem being i am not getting any satellites.i have read other posts and i seem to be doing it right but am getting no further.i have put the dish up south facing and 100% level and plummy position is 54 degrees north and 4.3 westi have set the dish elevation at 36 which is 54 degrees latitude on the other side of the bracket and the dish bracket angle at 22 degees( i got this figure by taking the declination angle of 7.6 away from 30 which is in the manual)so heres were it goes wrong i am facing south trying to get Atlantic bird at 5 degrees west i have used dishpointer and am getting 89% signal strenght but only 2%quaity and no picture.i have set the technomate up at 54 n and 4.3 w and just below the dishi have a window were i have setup a portable tv up so i can move the dish up/down and side to side to no avail.i have even pluged a feed into the motor from my sky dish to make sure this works on astra 28.2 which it does the only thing i can think is its a faulty lnb but i am getting brain ache now.Any help would be most welcome!CheersShaun</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bux186, post: 533638, member: 295672"] Hello all i could do with a little help i live on the isle of man and recently bought a technomate 6900 a 1m dish and a motech 2100 motor. the problem being i am not getting any satellites.i have read other posts and i seem to be doing it right but am getting no further. i have put the dish up south facing and 100% level and plum my position is 54 degrees north and 4.3 west i have set the dish elevation at 36 which is 54 degrees latitude on the other side of the bracket and the dish bracket angle at 22 degees( i got this figure by taking the declination angle of 7.6 away from 30 which is in the manual) so heres were it goes wrong i am facing south trying to get Atlantic bird at 5 degrees west i have used dishpointer and am getting 89% signal strenght but only 2%quaity and no picture. i have set the technomate up at 54 n and 4.3 w and just below the dish i have a window were i have setup a portable tv up so i can move the dish up/down and side to side to no avail.i have even pluged a feed into the motor from my sky dish to make sure this works on astra 28.2 which it does the only thing i can think is its a faulty lnb but i am getting brain ache now. Any help would be most welcome! Cheers Shaun [/QUOTE]

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