how do i put my lataitude and longitude in like

[youngie1]

sorry mate left the cap lock on i am speaking quite now how would you enter this mateLatitude: 52.2666?
Longitude: -1.5330? cheers lee

[ramjet]

ok mate i am stuck i am using a skybox f3 now as the vu solo is to hard for me..... local longitude 000.00E local latitude 00.0N what numbers do i enter in here mate cheers lee

judging by what you have posted already , Latitude: 52.2666? Longitude: -1.5330? , then the above would be

longitude 001.53 W , latitude 52.3 N

[youngie1]

ok mate i have just relocated the satellite as i was on the wrong wall... i have gone down your road of using a pole and have installed it flat and straight.... i have used a compass to locate south... at 180 all lined up there... i have entered the latitude and longitude.. like this 001.53w and 52.30n in my skybox f3 have i done that bit correct hope so ... now i need to manually move the motor to get to a satellite is that correct even thou i an perfectly on south 180 i have set the skybox f3 to ulsa on all satellites. cheers all lee

[ramjet]

ok mate i have just relocated the satellite as i was on the wrong wall... i have gone down your road of using a pole and have installed it flat and straight.... i have used a compass to locate south... at 180 all lined up there... i have entered the latitude and longitude.. like this 001.53w and 52.30n in my skybox f3 have i done that bit correct hope so ... now i need to manually move the motor to get to a satellite is that correct even thou i an perfectly on south 180 i have set the skybox f3 to ulsa on all satellites. cheers all lee

sounds reasonable to me , apart from a compass does not point to true south but points at magnetic south which is quite a few degrees away from true south

your "true south" is very close to thor at 0.8w , so if you get bbc world news from that satellite the motor will be close to the zero marker, the channel should be booming in , same as the music channel which is also fta on there

yes you manually move the motor AFTER the skybox has moved it to 0.8w

in simple terms, the electric motor is never moved once it has stopped on thor , not by remote control, or by any buttons on the motor
so no electrical activity at all once its on thor at 0.8w, until you have located the channels, peaked the signal and quality and locked it all up

[youngie1]

sounds reasonable to me , apart from a compass does not point to true south but points at magnetic south which is quite a few degrees away from true south

your "true south" is very close to thor at 0.8w , so if you get bbc world news from that satellite the motor will be close to the zero marker, the channel should be booming in , same as the music channel which is also fta on there

yes you manually move the motor AFTER the skybox has moved it to 0.8w

in simple terms, the electric motor is never moved once it has stopped on thor , not by remote control, or by any buttons on the motor
so no electrical activity at all once its on thor at 0.8w, until you have located the channels, peaked the signal and quality and locked it all up

. Ok thank you mate so i will enter 0.8 Thor on skybox let it move to location then fine tune to get bbc booming in.. Have I enter the longitude and latitude in correct 001.53w. And 52.30n or how would you enter it mate cheers lee

[ramjet]

. Ok thank you mate so i will enter 0.8 Thor on skybox let it move to location then fine tune to get bbc booming in.. Have I enter the longitude and latitude in correct 001.53w. And 52.30n or how would you enter it mate cheers lee

I have never used a skybox but my spiderbox has similar settings so you should be ok with those figures

[youngie1]

Ok mate will give it ago now wish me luck cheers lee

[youngie1]

ok mate i have installed everything i have got uk 28 using ulas but the rest are not lining up... i have tryed 0.8 thor but i had to move the dish loads to get bbc world and the channel comes up rtv oost... am i on the wrong sat here.. i belive i am getting somewhere. well lets hope so cheers lee and also bloomberg is coming up omroep gld i think i am on the wrong sat

[ramjet]

ok mate i have installed everything i have got uk 28 using ulas but the rest are not lining up... i have tryed 0.8 thor but i had to move the dish loads to get bbc world and the channel comes up rtv oost... am i on the wrong sat here.. i belive i am getting somewhere. well lets hope so cheers lee and also bloomberg is coming up omroep gld i think i am on the wrong sat

yes you are on the wrong sat (its 23.5e), the correct sat is near true south in your case, once you are on the correct sat of 0.8w you will get bbc world and the music channel

so 23.5e is miles away from 0.8w

watch the video again in the other thread, then do it that way

[youngie1]

ok mate thank you getting there then .. do you know why i got a feed on the channel thou mate cheers lee

[ramjet]

ok mate thank you getting there then .. do you know why i got a feed on the channel thou mate cheers lee

because they use the same transponders on different satellites, so the details for a channel on 0.8w are the same details for a different channel on 23.5e

in other words its like if you the same car as somebody in the next street , the main difference is the owners address and appearance, with the extra identifier of the registration plates being different, but when they come off the production line they are identical except for any vin numbers

you may find that for one actual transponder details, if you used the same transponder on 20 different satellites that you get 20 different channels with it

edit

ps:- you have already indicated in other posts that you were using a magnetic compass to find south, well that compass would have told you that those channels were nowhere near south, even though its not true south its a lot closer than 23 east , possibly between 2 and 8 degrees out but not 23.5 out

[youngie1]

i am really pissed off i have been on the dish the whole day and got nowhere.... i have done latidude all goes in good on sky uk and that is it when it goes to thor the motor goes to 0 and brings up rtv oost and also bloomberg is coming up omroep gld... i am using a single lnb could that be my problem... all day long... i have loads of open sky to be able to recive them...

[ramjet]

i am really pissed off i have been on the dish the whole day and got nowhere.... i have done latidude all goes in good on sky uk and that is it when it goes to thor the motor goes to 0 and brings up rtv oost and also bloomberg is coming up omroep gld... i am using a single lnb could that be my problem... all day long... i have loads of open sky to be able to recive them...

nope , the lnb is not relevant, single , double or quad makes no difference

if its moving to 23.5e from 28.2e then its only moving less than 5 degrees when the total movement should be 29 degrees

[youngie1]

thanks for the reply mate... i was using a iphone as a compass.. is that ok... ok ulas picks up uk 28 and moves 30 on the motor... when i go to thor it moves all the way back to 0... is that correct.... cheers mate lee

[ramjet]

thanks for the reply mate... i was using a iphone as a compass.. is that ok... ok ulas picks up uk 28 and moves 30 on the motor... when i go to thor it moves all the way back to 0... is that correct.... cheers mate lee

yes , sounds correct to me, but when its near zero it should be getting bbc world news or the music channel on 0.8w thor

I dont know if the iphone app checks for magnetic south or true south, suggest you check the actual info on the app