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We managed to get it working with some tweaking. The dish wasn't perfectly aligned on motor. The only problem is I have to adjust W or E on some sats to get perfect signal but I'm hoping I can save the tweaks in the settings on my box so I don't have to adjust every time. Just need to work...

We had thought the inclination of the roof was blocking the signal. It's easy enough to drop it down and we are hoping to get it working low close to the roof. We think it's the mount on the motor must be slightly off and we're going to try and readjust. The way we set the inclination was a bit...

Thanks for all the help guys. We are happy with the pole alignment, we have used a spirit level at bottom and top and it looks good. The clamps holding the dish to motor look bang on to the eye but we don't know a good way to do this other than to just make sure it looks straight. With...

Thanks, will do. Strangely I can also get 15W so you'd almost think it was an obstruction East. Sats I can get, 15W, 7W, 5W, 0.8W. Sats I can't get, the rest! Does anyone think that could be a LNB or dish elevation issue?

Yep! If you look at the first pic the dish is 5W. All the E sats are over the roof.

We thought it wasn't high enough to clear the roof but it must just be the tracking. Will take it down as low as possible

It's the TM2600 I'm using and I set the latitude to just below 55. It seemed simple enough to identify which scale, I'm pretty sure I got it right OK. Nisatman do you know anyone locally who could help? The guy who helped me today is fantastic but he's not a sat expert. BTW getting a good...

I've got a solo2 running Openvix and I put in the lat/long in service scanning. The problem must be related to alignment because we're not hitting any satellites on the meter when we scan east of Thor.

I didn't get any close ups while the ladder was there unfortunately. It's very high at the moment because we wondered if it wasn't clearing the roof. The previous sky dish that was there was nearly sitting on the roof and it was fine so I think we can probably take it right down once we work...

I get 25% signal on Nilesat at the moment but I'm struggling with my install. I thought I'd done everything correct and I have great signal on Thor and 5W but I can't get any other satellites. I've the latitude set correctly on my motor to just under 55. We adjusted the elevation on the dish...

Happy days. Think I have my head round this now. I'll get the dish up and using a compass I'll try my best to point it to magnetic south. I'll then get my sat box to use diseqc to point motor to 5W and then using the meter I'll move elevation on dish and adjust left and right to get best...

So basically I'm 54.7N so that's what I set on the motor and I need to work out my elevation to work out what I set the dish to? Using dishpointer it says 27.5 for Thor but obviously this changes depending on satellite, do I just set it to that and the motor does the rest? It also says the...

It's going to be quite tough to adjust once it's up. I'm not quite sure what you mean but I've not read any guides in depth yet so I'll go do some research. Cheers.

Guy in Staks was great. Went for 3 K brackets and he's cutting me a 12ft steel pole. Got a meter, load of cable, plugs, bolts etc. and it came in at about £75. Now I just need to read up on how to align the dish. The thing that has me confused is there's an elevation setting on both the motor...

I actually live in Bangor and run a business in Balloo. I was going to go round today to staks as well! Thanks for advice everyone.