but thor is at the top of the arc so why would i want my dish dipping off to 1w?
regardless of what is top of the arc 0 means true south.
thor is 0.8 degrees west of south.
at 0 your lnb should be dead straight ie no skew at all.
but thor is at the top of the arc so why would i want my dish dipping off to 1w?
regardless of what is top of the arc 0 means true south.
thor is 0.8 degrees west of south.
at 0 your lnb should be dead straight ie no skew at all.
zero or 0.8 is irrelevant.
I'm not that hungry, can someone attempt to only cut me a small slice of cake ~ i just want 0.8 degrees from the whole cake......
Anyway, can anyone here honestly align that accurate by using a compass and judgement of eye that its that straight? C'mon be real, that is why tutorials mention using 'slight' adjustment to suit because it will only be pure luck if you really get absolute zero and can judge the 0.8 difference in your straight line.
I didn't even bother too much about precisely where south was tbh.
I set the lat on the side of the motor, made sure that the dish was bang on middle of the short arm of the motor and roughly verticle.
I put in my coordinates in the stb and then selected thor and bbc world.
The dish twitched as it moved from 0 to 0.8 west
I then moved the entire assembly east to west and back on the main pole, and altered the elevation of the dish untill I got bbc world.
Once I got a good picture I carefully tightened everything up so as not to move anything.
I selected astra and the dish moved to it bang on.
I did the same for hispasat and it did the same, bang on.
knowing I was following the arc it was easy to get every sat from 42 east to 37.5 west.
Maybe I flooked it to a degree lol, but after doing lots of reading on here first, everything went really well.
Curly
i bet you didn't get nilesat
It is dead straight at 0? at which point it is aiming a thor 1w and im watching bbc world on my tv.
if your motor is at 0° and is pointing directly at Thor (which is 0.8°) then it's out.
0° is 0°.
0.8° is slightly west of 0°.
???
Must be out then.
I bet i could get loads of channels if it wasn't seeing as i get thousands already.
your missing the point but never mind chum..
happy viewing
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