extraspark
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Hello all,
Been around my friends to help him setup his motorised system. He has decided to put it on a pole in the ground as did not want the dish attached to side of house.
He has put the pole in a got it plum.
Now we have put the motor and the dish on it and tried to find Thor. Any advice on how to find it. (is that dishpointer of any help it says 0.8w Thor and does not show 1 W Thor) As he bought a digital compass and on there Thor was in a different place to the dishpointer site when you line up the location etc.
What we have done so far. He has a TM5400 box and we have set it to Thor and BBC world. moved the satellite but found nothing. Even tried to put it on the signal strength on the screen but all we get is Signal strength 97% and quality 22%. Not sure how accurate this is. When I move the dish nothing seems to happen to any of it.
Any advice would be most welcome.
I am not sure of what angle the dish should be set at and the motor elevation. I have tried 22 on dish and 39 degrees elevation (I used the TM2600 book to calculate all this info from long and lat etc)
Thanks
PS
He has a TD88 dish a 0.1db LNB and a TM2600 motor if that is any help. When you turn to BBC World it just says Bad or No signal on the screen.
Been around my friends to help him setup his motorised system. He has decided to put it on a pole in the ground as did not want the dish attached to side of house.
He has put the pole in a got it plum.
Now we have put the motor and the dish on it and tried to find Thor. Any advice on how to find it. (is that dishpointer of any help it says 0.8w Thor and does not show 1 W Thor) As he bought a digital compass and on there Thor was in a different place to the dishpointer site when you line up the location etc.
What we have done so far. He has a TM5400 box and we have set it to Thor and BBC world. moved the satellite but found nothing. Even tried to put it on the signal strength on the screen but all we get is Signal strength 97% and quality 22%. Not sure how accurate this is. When I move the dish nothing seems to happen to any of it.
Any advice would be most welcome.
I am not sure of what angle the dish should be set at and the motor elevation. I have tried 22 on dish and 39 degrees elevation (I used the TM2600 book to calculate all this info from long and lat etc)
Thanks
PS
He has a TD88 dish a 0.1db LNB and a TM2600 motor if that is any help. When you turn to BBC World it just says Bad or No signal on the screen.
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