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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
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<blockquote data-quote="yoghurt" data-source="post: 516303" data-attributes="member: 196413"><p>Hello</p><p></p><p>In the past I have used one of those £5 sat finder meters to sucessfully point my fixed dish to 19.2 degrees, over a year ago.</p><p></p><p>I have now finally dug out my new 1M Triax dish and SG100 motor I treated myself to in Xmas 06(!), fitted it together and started using the guides in the sticky.</p><p></p><p>I am in Bristol and multimap gives my Lat as 51.48 and Long -2.62 so I used a compass to find magnetic south, altered the motor using the angle guide on its side and moved the dish angle to 40 degrees (as per the supplied motor instructions), hoping to find Thor at 1 degrees</p><p></p><p>Since I am using an SS2 card via my PC which I do not want to lug outside I wired up the sat meter-however, although it lights up I have not managed to get any movement in the needle or buzzing sound.</p><p></p><p>With my old setup I found walking in front of the dish got the buzzer sounding and that gave me confidence to persevere with it and (eventually) find 19.2</p><p></p><p>Coudl the meter be broken or am I doing somethng wrong? I think I also had ProgDVB running which (I think) gave power to the LN<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></p><p></p><p>Sorry for the ramblings but any help much apprecated!</p><p></p><p>My ultimate aim is to get Freesat for the HD channels</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p><p></p><p>Yoghurt</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yoghurt, post: 516303, member: 196413"] Hello In the past I have used one of those £5 sat finder meters to sucessfully point my fixed dish to 19.2 degrees, over a year ago. I have now finally dug out my new 1M Triax dish and SG100 motor I treated myself to in Xmas 06(!), fitted it together and started using the guides in the sticky. I am in Bristol and multimap gives my Lat as 51.48 and Long -2.62 so I used a compass to find magnetic south, altered the motor using the angle guide on its side and moved the dish angle to 40 degrees (as per the supplied motor instructions), hoping to find Thor at 1 degrees Since I am using an SS2 card via my PC which I do not want to lug outside I wired up the sat meter-however, although it lights up I have not managed to get any movement in the needle or buzzing sound. With my old setup I found walking in front of the dish got the buzzer sounding and that gave me confidence to persevere with it and (eventually) find 19.2 Coudl the meter be broken or am I doing somethng wrong? I think I also had ProgDVB running which (I think) gave power to the LNB) Sorry for the ramblings but any help much apprecated! My ultimate aim is to get Freesat for the HD channels Cheers Yoghurt [/QUOTE]
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