Norm
Specialist Contributor
- Joined
- Jan 1, 2000
- Messages
- 264
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- 6
- Points
- 18
- Location
- Aberdeen
- My Satellite Setup
- Channel Master 1.2m motorised, V Box, Technomate TM-5402HD.
- My Location
- Aberdeen, Scotland
Hi Guys,
I am a relative "new boy" around here - I've been lurking and trying to learn for a few months now. My initial plan was to install my own system but in the end I chickened out and had a pro recently install a motorised system.
He fitted a 1.2 metre Channel Master dish on a flat roof at the back of the house - problem came when my wife opened the bedroom curtains in the morning to be greeted by the back end of this (fairly large) dish; result dish had to go!
Last weekend I carefully moved the dish on to a plinth that I had constructed in the back garden, ensuring it was perfectly level etc. I had dismantled the dish with it aligned on Hotbird and realigned it to Hotbird when reassembled using an analogue meter.
Now the good news is that this was all a success. I can still pick up the same 11 satellites that I could pick up in the previous location.
However, when I checked the mount as I was reassembling, I could see that it was not absolutely vertical (and obviously was originally installed this way!). Question is - should I correct the mount to make it truly vertical? I realise that there is quite a lot of geometry around the dish polar mount for me to mess up should I choose. Since this was a pro installation, would the due South location be correct, do you think? I have looked back the thread "finding the arc" but most of the links referred to have gone. Probably what I'm asking is, are there any easy shortcuts I could try? For instance, I could adjust the mount so that it is vertical and try it; I could always put it back as it is now if it is a failure.
I have a BEC 6800CIP receiver but the manual is pretty useless really. And the final piece of information - I am in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Norm.
I am a relative "new boy" around here - I've been lurking and trying to learn for a few months now. My initial plan was to install my own system but in the end I chickened out and had a pro recently install a motorised system.
He fitted a 1.2 metre Channel Master dish on a flat roof at the back of the house - problem came when my wife opened the bedroom curtains in the morning to be greeted by the back end of this (fairly large) dish; result dish had to go!
Last weekend I carefully moved the dish on to a plinth that I had constructed in the back garden, ensuring it was perfectly level etc. I had dismantled the dish with it aligned on Hotbird and realigned it to Hotbird when reassembled using an analogue meter.
Now the good news is that this was all a success. I can still pick up the same 11 satellites that I could pick up in the previous location.
However, when I checked the mount as I was reassembling, I could see that it was not absolutely vertical (and obviously was originally installed this way!). Question is - should I correct the mount to make it truly vertical? I realise that there is quite a lot of geometry around the dish polar mount for me to mess up should I choose. Since this was a pro installation, would the due South location be correct, do you think? I have looked back the thread "finding the arc" but most of the links referred to have gone. Probably what I'm asking is, are there any easy shortcuts I could try? For instance, I could adjust the mount so that it is vertical and try it; I could always put it back as it is now if it is a failure.
I have a BEC 6800CIP receiver but the manual is pretty useless really. And the final piece of information - I am in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Norm.