rparkera
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- My Satellite Setup
- Metronic motor, Zone 2 dish and Touchbox3 receiver; DM500S; motorised SS2; Maplin satellite suitcase for travels
- My Location
- S W Wales
Hi folks - got my motorised set up going a couple of weeks ago; but could only pull in the sats from Atlantic Bird to Astra 1. So - back up the ladders yesterday and got a better bearing on due south. This was using the sun's shadow at local noon (allowing for BST) and soon picked up the top of the arc satellites again and even got Hispasat with strong signal and quality ... that felt really good considering it's an old Zone 2 dish and a Metronic motor. Still worked perfectly this morning after a windy night - yeah!!
It works so - but I'm a bit confused by the Metronic set up instructions that give an elevation of 34 degrees for my latitude which is 52 deg N (and 4 deg W). The motor arm is also about 4 deg from vertical using that elevation setting (I checked all these with an inclinometer - good purchase that). The flat plate of the motor is therefore 34 deg - whereas everywhere I have read suggests it should be at 90 deg minus my lat of 52 = 38 deg. It works - so can anyone tell me what am I doing right?!
As always - thanks to all the guys who help on the forum - invalauble
rparkera
It works so - but I'm a bit confused by the Metronic set up instructions that give an elevation of 34 degrees for my latitude which is 52 deg N (and 4 deg W). The motor arm is also about 4 deg from vertical using that elevation setting (I checked all these with an inclinometer - good purchase that). The flat plate of the motor is therefore 34 deg - whereas everywhere I have read suggests it should be at 90 deg minus my lat of 52 = 38 deg. It works - so can anyone tell me what am I doing right?!
As always - thanks to all the guys who help on the forum - invalauble
rparkera