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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
Quattro lnb and diseqc motor.
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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1070335" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>I think you may have incorrectly input your location parameters into dish pointer - using <a href="https://www.dishpointer.eu/" target="_blank">dishpointer.eu an</a>d your location as Dublin, 5W is almost directly South of you, and thus, for that Sat, the Mag & Compass settings are around the 180 Deg mark, and not the 150 Deg mark!</p><p></p><p>Then again, and thinking about this from a wider perspective, I suspect that you may completely misunderstand how to set up a DiSEqC motor and dish with one LNB (be it a single LNB or a Quatro) as that is almost entirely different to setting up a fixed dish with multiple LNBs where you have to set the skew separately on each LNB! On a steerable dish, the skew of the LNB relative to the dish, is pretty much 0 Deg!</p><p></p><p>I thhink that you need to "go completely back to basics" on the settings for the DiSEqC motor and the dish - Set the motor to 0 Deg Longitude and the dish to around 29 Deg elevation, with 0 deg skew of the LNB in the holder, and gently swing the dish<u> very slightly</u> E & W, and Up & Down, until you get a signal lock on a 5W transponder, which is near-enough your Due South Sat (as 1W is for us in the London area), and then peak that up. Then you gradually expand the arc by driving the motor E and W to the nearest strong sats in each direction and adjust the dish elevation and declination until you get decent tracking across as wide an arc as you want or are able to achieve (5W to 28E should be pretty easy!).</p><p></p><p>There is a lot of guidance on setting up DiSEqC motors and dishes in <a href="https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/dish-setup-guides-information-threads-and-faqs.552/" target="_blank">this part </a>of the forum, and I think you need to take a good long look at some of those guides.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1070335, member: 176704"] I think you may have incorrectly input your location parameters into dish pointer - using [URL='https://www.dishpointer.eu/']dishpointer.eu an[/URL]d your location as Dublin, 5W is almost directly South of you, and thus, for that Sat, the Mag & Compass settings are around the 180 Deg mark, and not the 150 Deg mark! Then again, and thinking about this from a wider perspective, I suspect that you may completely misunderstand how to set up a DiSEqC motor and dish with one LNB (be it a single LNB or a Quatro) as that is almost entirely different to setting up a fixed dish with multiple LNBs where you have to set the skew separately on each LNB! On a steerable dish, the skew of the LNB relative to the dish, is pretty much 0 Deg! I thhink that you need to "go completely back to basics" on the settings for the DiSEqC motor and the dish - Set the motor to 0 Deg Longitude and the dish to around 29 Deg elevation, with 0 deg skew of the LNB in the holder, and gently swing the dish[U] very slightly[/U] E & W, and Up & Down, until you get a signal lock on a 5W transponder, which is near-enough your Due South Sat (as 1W is for us in the London area), and then peak that up. Then you gradually expand the arc by driving the motor E and W to the nearest strong sats in each direction and adjust the dish elevation and declination until you get decent tracking across as wide an arc as you want or are able to achieve (5W to 28E should be pretty easy!). There is a lot of guidance on setting up DiSEqC motors and dishes in [URL='https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/dish-setup-guides-information-threads-and-faqs.552/']this part [/URL]of the forum, and I think you need to take a good long look at some of those guides. [/QUOTE]
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