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Thread: Pointing Dish To Echostar 4 From Toronto |
    
Very Thankful Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 08:29 pm: |
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Hello - calculated headings give 6.62 degrees elevation and 255 azimuth. The dish elevation starts at 20 and I can't seem to point it correctly to get a lock. Can anyone provide any advice?
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| Posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 08:35 pm: |
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Very Thankful the the skew is 122. Az is 28. and the Lat is 236. good luck |
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| Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 06:33 pm: |
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if you are still having trouble you can even go as high as 30.Im 150 miles north of toronto and spent 5 days trying to get it.I finally got it.I was using a odd variety of dish to bring it in,was actually using a older starchoice dish with a dishnet single lnb.I started by using a level. |
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| Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 12:56 am: |
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thanks so much folks. I managed to lock in a signal but it's 110 degrees even though I've selected Echostar 4 (119 degrees) I understand they're coordinates are close to each other.
My settings show skews from -90 to +90. no 122. I think you meant the elevation is 28 and the az is 236 correct? i may have trees in the way at such a low elevation. any thoughts? appreciate any help that can be provided.
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Very Thankful Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 12:59 am: |
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One other quick question. on 110, most transponders seem to pull in 85 strength and 98 quality but 17 (which has ESPN) gets 50 quality at best and I can't download any channels. Any idea why?
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| Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 10:47 am: |
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VT the trees shouldn't effect the signal that much as long as there's some opening, u might have to change 17 manually,it should be 12441.U need to move ur dish slightly to right 236sw and u should rescan sat1 |
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| Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 02:11 pm: |
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awesome. thanks. there are some other TPs that don't get good strength/quality. i started to change their frequencies to 12441 and they seem to lock in as well. Is this ok to do with every TP? |
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| Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 02:40 pm: |
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VT check the Lyngsat.com site to find all the correct TPs.only change the ones ur not getting signal and u should be fine.later |
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| Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 02:44 pm: |
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btw a inline signal booster will bring u up to about 98% put it close to the ird |
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| Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 04:40 pm: |
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Thanks again. Sorry but when you say only change the ones that are bad, do you mean change them to 12441 or to the frequency on Lingsat? |
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| Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 05:47 pm: |
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Print the list of channels and tps at lyngsat for both dish 119 and 110 then just change them to what that list says. only if u need to,if pictures fine, leave them alone. |
