mickkeay
Member
- Joined
- Jun 20, 2008
- Messages
- 10
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 0
- Age
- 68
- My Satellite Setup
-
Penta 68cm
Moteck SG2100
Fortec Star Passion HD
- My Location
- Brighton, Sussex
Hi all. Great forum. I have read the stickies and my motor instructions (SG2100) and I think I know what I need to do - but I would appreciate someone giving my plan the once over.
I am in Brighton on south coast (latitude 50.8N Long 0.075W) I use the table in the motor instructions to set the motor elevation angle =40) The dish declination angle should be 7.3 according to same table which equates to a dish bracket angle of 22.7 (30-7.3)
I mount the whole thing pointing as near to true south as I can judge and I then power up receiver (fortec star passion HD) and get the dish to go to 1 degree West using the diseqc menu and then i need to find the thor 1W - hopefully my little bleeper will help me get the best signal by adjusting the whole setup left/right on the main pole and up /down on the dish. Then it should track the arc about right? and I can maybe fine tune on my main satellites I need - hotbird and astra 1+2.
Is that all about right?
One thing that is puzzling me is that the dish bracket angle marking read 30 (the lowest number) when the dish is perfectly vertical - the scale goes from 30 - 90 as it is elevated - so I am not sure where 22.7 would be on that scale - it is a 65cm fortec star which was 'free' with my receiver but had no instructions. Maybe it will be a case of trial end error - and from what I read I may need a 80cm dish?
Thanks for any help you are able to give - Mike
I am in Brighton on south coast (latitude 50.8N Long 0.075W) I use the table in the motor instructions to set the motor elevation angle =40) The dish declination angle should be 7.3 according to same table which equates to a dish bracket angle of 22.7 (30-7.3)
I mount the whole thing pointing as near to true south as I can judge and I then power up receiver (fortec star passion HD) and get the dish to go to 1 degree West using the diseqc menu and then i need to find the thor 1W - hopefully my little bleeper will help me get the best signal by adjusting the whole setup left/right on the main pole and up /down on the dish. Then it should track the arc about right? and I can maybe fine tune on my main satellites I need - hotbird and astra 1+2.
Is that all about right?
One thing that is puzzling me is that the dish bracket angle marking read 30 (the lowest number) when the dish is perfectly vertical - the scale goes from 30 - 90 as it is elevated - so I am not sure where 22.7 would be on that scale - it is a 65cm fortec star which was 'free' with my receiver but had no instructions. Maybe it will be a case of trial end error - and from what I read I may need a 80cm dish?
Thanks for any help you are able to give - Mike