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I use a compass it is great for giving you the directions to set up your dish .

Guys, thank you all very much. I am so chuffed having managed to get both hotbird and astra finally on my 80 cm dish and using the amazing Technomate 1000. FANTASTIC.

Thanks Burnham Beech but my dish is old (was there when I moved in) and I don't have any instructions. I'll try and look for the make if anything is written on it and search for the info online.

Thanks very much for the reply. Something rang a bell here. I thought all my installation was absolutely spot on and the motor and dish angles were both exactely according to the instructions. Unfortunately my dish bracket doesn't have a scale and I had to use an angle finder to measure the...

I am a absolute novice to this satellite thingy and after looking at a whole host of websites I am pretty confused when it comes to finding reasonably straight forward instructions that are clear and practical to install a dish and (the trick is here) a USALS motor which I purchased after...

Thanks again. I realised the posts' overlap.

Thanks for your advice IjonT. I'll try that.

The problem is that my dish bracket doesn't have a scale on it and I would have to use a protractor on the dish surface to decide the final elevation of the dish.

Thanks for the reply. so the 22.3 will essentially be on top of whatever the motor elevation is and is not the final elevation of the whole thing.

I am sorry but I am quite new to this thing. when you say elevation should be 22.5 is that for the dish only ignoring the moteck tube angle or is that what the final elevation of the dish should be at (i.e the combined elevation and declination angles)? My latitude is 55.6 which would make my...