Just a quick recap.
You should now have:
A perfectly vertical mount on the wall with the motor and dish attached to it.
The LNB on the dish connected to the motor.
A cable running from the dish to the back of your television (but not yet connected).
A satellite reciever connected to your television by a scart lead.
Next we will connect the dish and motor to the reciever and set up the reciever and motor ready for you to start looking for satellites to alaign the dish.
For menu screen shots i am going to use a Technomate reciever as these are now a very popular choice. The majority of recievers all have very similar setup options.
First of all connect the lead from the reciever to the motor, now back inside connect it to the satellite input socket on the reciever and turn on the reciever.
Now before you enter anything into the reciever go back outside and take a quick look at the dish, it should look similar to the picture below, with the dish face itself sitting pretty straight, if not a quick trip up the ladder now will save you pulling your hair out in 20 mins time. Now would also be an ideal time to use your compass to point the dish as due south as you can, it doesnt need to be spot on, but its no good pointing it towards santas house.
Back into the house now, and into the motorised setup menu. First of all select a satellite, for this we'll use Thor @ 1'W. Now select your motor type. I always use USALS as its so easy when it comes to adding more satellites. Now you need to enter your latitude and longitude that you wrote down earlier (you did keep them safe i hope). Once all this is done you should have an option to 'Go To' highlight this and press OK. The dish will move slightly. Now if you havent got a signal strength meter you are going to have to rely on the onscreen levels, fortunatley on the technomates these are extremely sensitive and acurate.
the bars on the screen will more than likley indicate very little or no signal, you need to slowly move the dish to get these as high as possible. On a technomate when a signal is 'locked' the bars will change colour from both red to one yellow and one blue, once they have done this you can tighten the dish slightly ready to fine tune the alaignment.
First off to start fine tuning the dish hold the face of the dish (the big circle) and only very lightly bend it (it wont damage it) left and right and up and down. This should cause the signal on the screen to improve. Once you have worked out which way to move the dish to improve the signal move it very slightly and again bend the face. Keep doing this untill any way you bend the face causes the signal to drop. You have now alaigned the dish, you just need to tighten it. First of all tighten the elevation bracket on the back of the dish, taking care not to move it.
Now you need to tighten the motor onto the pole. Be carefull here because if you just go tightening the bolts you will move the dish. As you tighten a clamp onto a round fixing the clamp moves in the opposite direction its being tightened. So, if you tighten the bolt on the left 3 turns, also tighten the bolt on the right 3 turns. Do this untill you are satisfied that it is tight enough.
You should now have a screen similar to this:
Now for the test.
highlight the satellite at the top of the list and press OK. Now use the up and down buttons to find Astra 2 28.2E and press OK. Now highlight Go TO at the bottom of the screen and again press OK. If asked to save choose yes.
You will now see this.
If you have followed everything then you should have blue and yellow bars to show that the reciever has a signal lock. Now to try the other end of the sky. Highlight the satellite at the top of the list again and press OK, now use up and down to find Hispasat 30.0W and press OK. Back to Go To at the bottom and press OK again, again if asked to save choose yes.
As long as this locks onto a signal as well then you are all alaigned.
Now if the 'moving to' box vanishes and you still have no signal dont panic. YET. sometimes the onscreen bar moves faster than the dish, if you still have no yellow and blue bars after 90 seconds then you need to check that you have lined everything up properly (mount vertical, dish pointing from center of motors pole) also check the lat and lon settings on the reciever, i have before now spent an hour at the dish when i had pressed ok on the remote inside and accidently changed N to S which made the dish do the opposite of what it was meant to. If you only get a lock on one side (east or west) DONT PANIC. The usual suspect in most motorised problems is that the dish is slightly off center when tightened onto the motors pole. Check this and go back to the top of this bit and try again, you are so close dont give up.
Now all the easy bits done its time to find the channels.
Nahh, congratulations, you have just done what 85% of Sky trained satellite installers could not do, and you have saved yourself the cost of a professional coming in and doing it for you (at least ?130), you should be extremely proud of yourself.
All thats left to do now is either load a ready made channel list onto the reciever (and as you have used USALS any new satellites will be automatically set up) or follow the user manual that came with your reciever for scanning satellites for channels.
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