bit of advice on motorised dish

[gingeee85]

aye thats about right that picture for how the satelite finder points to thor, i just cant understand why im not picking anything up at all

[gingeee85]

would just like to after some prceverance i am slowl;y getting there, got a new sat finder and its picking up a signal, is it bbc news on thor we go to for fine tuning?

[ramjet]

yes m8 , bbc world news on transponder 10778 H 24500 , also al jaz and cctv on 12418 V 28000 , also music channel on 11900 H 28000

so checks H and V and fta channels with english on most of them with good signal and quality levels

[gingeee85]

am i bets throwing on catseyes? i know i can pick up signals now so im gonna wait until daylight on sat and finish what i started

[ramjet]

I use catseyes on my e2 boxes so dont see why not

just make sure you put in the usals correctly, which in your case may mean using 357 degrees longitude

when on thor, check your motor pointer is on about 2 east

[gingeee85]

Latitude: 54.0687?
Longitude: -2.8616?
Satellite: 0.8W INTELSAT 10-02 | THOR 5 | THOR 6
Elevation: 28.2?
Azimuth (true): 177.4?
Azimuth (magn.): 180.0?
thats what dish pointer says, so id put in 054.000 and 002.800 for long and lat?

[ramjet]

I cannot tell you myself, but I have a feeling that you can only put in positives not negatives (negative is west)

so thats 360 minus 2.8 as a positive = 357,80 longitude (approx)

ps:- good choice of font colours there

[gingeee85]

hehe i just copied from dish pointer. so fdo i leave latitude as zero?

[ramjet]

your latitude is, was and always will be 54 N or whatever you are at unless you move house , you would have to be on the equator for it to be zero

not sure you are understanding this GPS thingy very well

[gingeee85]

me neither matey, not understanding the longitude crap either

[mdt]

me neither matey, not understanding the longitude crap either

put in 54N 2.8W in usals and send the dish to thor5/6, int 10-02 at 0.8/1.0w. then select bbc world news as suggested put the signal quality bar onscreen and using your finder ajust until you have a picture. you will be dancing a jig when you find it for the first time (i know i was) regards mdt

[gingeee85]

thats the thing thats confusiong me mdt, as the long and lat on vix have 6 numbers, so not sure how to input 54n, is it 540.000 or 054.000?

[digicon]

you enter it like so:

Lat = 054.068

Lon = 002.861

[ramjet]

I havent used vix in some time but would have thought that longitude figure would put the box at about 002.861 east , not west

in which case take it from 360.000 and put that in (that is what I had to do when testing a dm800 on my motor)

[gingeee85]

im a impatient sod so i went out to try again today, now i cant get any signal aaaarrrggghhhh, will i be able to get som functinality if il line it up on astra then go from there or does it have to be thor