Setup help please

[Dogz11]

camera on charge, daughters school production tonight, i'll post them asap

 

[Dogz11]

Pictures as requested, the dish is just below the level of the trees in the middle, due south is smack in the middle of the 2 trees either side, Astra is off to the left of the LH tree (if i remember rightly). Astra signal quality and level 97%. As i said earlier 18months ago the dish was in the same place though certainly lower down and all worked reasonably well.

 

[satelliteman]

If your getting Astra1 then you should be able to pull in Thor as it is higher on the arc.

From the look of it, those trees wouldn't cause a problem; they're too far away.

Satman

 

[Dogz11]

I'm going to try the jubilee clip under the motor, which will make it easier / smoother to rotate the motor and dish around the pole.

At least i haven't reduced you to hysterics over my installation / setup.
Needs tidying up obviously and i'll do that once finished.

 

[satelliteman]

No I'm not in the picking mood, LOl but I'm sure if I looked closely I could find a few.

Can't remember if your using a in line meter to set up or what?

You could set the declination roughly to what the manual says but not all dish Elevation brackets are accurate. My Penta dish is spot on to what it states in the back of the Moteck manual.

 

[Robbo]

Needs tidying up obviously and i'll do that once finished.

Looks very tidy indeed, compared to mine.

 

[Dogz11]

I do have a meter, and i'll give that a go along with the jubilee clip trick, i thought the receiver was good enough for that, when i finish work i'll have another bash. There's a small pitched roof below so its just a case of climbing out the bedroom window.

 

[Dogz11]

Some success...

I have managed to locate Thor and from that i then found hotbird !

In case this helps others.... where i was going wrong

The problems seem to originate from being 10 degrees out despite using a rangefinder compass. Subsequent difficulties arose from trying to rotate the 90cm dish and motor around the pole which was too heavy to move smoothly in conjunction with using the meter on the reciever.

The solutions were the use of a jubilee clip which took the weight of the motor and made it easier and smoother to move around the pole and a using a PG753 meter (which needed some soldering before i could use it, which is why i was relying on the reciever meter, bad decision).

I am still 10 degrees out and i dont really know how i was that far out with the compass. The motor reads approx 3 when i am at 13 degrees. But i'll leave it at that till the missus goes on holiday so she has her foreign TV till then. Once she's gone i'll have another bash to get it all perfect.

In the meantime i dont think my reciever a Technomate 5400 usb is patched as promised from the dealer :mad: don't seem to have any channels other than the free to air, is there a quick check to see if its patched ?

MANY THANKS TO ALL FOR YOUR HELP.

I know i tried your patience, but i think i'm winning now and definitely wouldnt be without everyones input so Thanks again.

:-worship

 

[satelliteman]

Visit the darkside and download 1. the loader, 2. the patch & 3. the latest softcam.
SM

 

[Robbo]

is there a quick check to see if its patched ?



:-worship

Yes, Press MENU>SYSTEM INFORMATION and look at the software version.

Also on the same page if you have "CAS Menu" and "Biss Menu" it is patched.

Pressing either of those takes you into "Key Edit" or "BISS" pages

 

[paulm999]

Pole plumb in both directions, triple checked
Lattitude and longitude set in technomate 5400 ci reciever and near as dammit corresponds with London (i'm in woking and used info from dishpointer.com) so they're in the right way round.
Due south located with a rangefinder compass
Told reciever to go to Thor, which results in a very small burst of movement.

then...
Signal Level... 89%
Quality .... 22%

No picture.... get the bbc world channell up (no signal)... sit there and fine tune / move the dish east and west for ages in either direction no picture or signal quality still. Tried moving the dish up and down same, tried moving the motor around the pole same.

Strange thing is when initially setting it up we did at one point get a channel briefly, but nothing since .....'O'-red

help please

exactly the same as me. Got an installer in for £20 and he moved the dish to its "proper" position. I had tried for two hours but Thor was not where my compass said that it should be. Everything ok now.

 

[satelliteman]

A cheapo compass should give you an accurate enough guide to where due South is

 

[Dogz11]

Hi Peeps ...missus has cleared off ;)

I'm desperately trying to set this up properly....resetting the motor to the reference point. Then no matter how carefully i move it in either direction, using a meter i cant locate thor, i can locate 8 degrees / nilesat, but the damn thing will not locate thor, its either 8 degrees or astra )(-red

once on 8 degrees i'm moving it really slowly about the pole but bugger all till astra kicks in

any explanations please

 

[Topper]

once on 8 degrees i'm moving it really slowly about the pole but bugger all till astra kicks in

any explanations please

Thor is the top of your arc so you will have to alter the dish elevation to get it

 

[satelliteman]

Hi Peeps ...missus has cleared off ;)

I'm desperately trying to set this up properly....resetting the motor to the reference point. Then no matter how carefully i move it in either direction, using a meter i cant locate thor, i can locate 8 degrees / nilesat, but the damn thing will not locate thor, its either 8 degrees or astra )(-red

once on 8 degrees i'm moving it really slowly about the pole but bugger all till astra kicks in

any explanations please

Make sure the motor was on zero to start with.
What you can do is send the dish to 8W, align on 8W, then send the dish to 0.8W using USALS and then tweek

SM

 

[Dogz11]

INcrease or decrease the dish angle ? i assume increase ?

 

[Topper]

INcrease or decrease the dish angle ? i assume increase ?

You should be able to just flex it to find it, it is only slightly higher

 

[satelliteman]

http://www.satellites.co.uk/satelli...t-motorised-systems/117335-satellite-arc.html

 

[Dogz11]

Thats the problem then...slacken off the brackets and the weight of the dish and motor causes the setup to tilt groundwords compounding the problem.....ok thankyou...roofbound again

 

[satelliteman]

When it's on THOR, the dish wil be at it's highest point within the arc at your location