My Dream Box 500s Is on it's way to me :) advice please

[ShaGGy]

Ah just found it it's the declination angle

looking at the booklet for the mount it says

Latitude (mine is) 53.5
Elevation angle 36.5
Declination Angle 7.6
Dish bracket angle 27.4


My dish was mounted on a H-H mount where the motor pole the dish was attached to pointed upwards and with the disesq one it points downwards
looking more into it it loks like I will have to adjust the declination also but i guess this will have to be done once mounted to fine tune.

[ShaGGy]

Got my box this afternoon and installed gemini went to finish putting up the dish as the light was starting to fade and noticed my LNB is only 0.7db so I guess I will need a new one now but whilst i'm at it I may as well get a 1mtr dish, so can anyone recommend a decent dish and LNB but cheapish?

[opsmonkey]

Dish 1

Dish 2

LNB 1

LNB 2

Happy Shopping

[cauliflower69]

If you goto ebay and have a look for southernsatellite hes a great guy hooke me up with my 1m and motor and 0.1db LNB for about 90 squid about a year or so ago.

[ShaGGy]

Managed to get a new dish 1.1 and a 0.1 titanium LNB

Was having problems getting the thing setup tho yesterday so will have another go today.

anyone know a lot about setting up motor? i have read a few guides and some say set to true south and others say set south to your nearest (or central) satellite?

what I tried was leaving the motor at 0 then looking at dishpointer.com got the True South/True North direction and pointed my dish in the direction of the green line, then with DM told it to goto 0.8w but i couldn't get a signal even when altering the declination angle on the dish bracket.

Any advice would be helpful.

[cauliflower69]

Whats your long and lat m8 ?

I'm 8 degrees west so my nearest sat is Atlantic Bird 2.

So drive the motor to 0 and line up on that sat (different for you - and make sure its on 0) best as you can. Then once thats done move it to 13 then 19.2 etc etc and just fine tune as much as possible.

Do you have a meter or using the box ?

The reason why you do this is because that satellite is my true south mor or less and therefore at the very top of the arc.

[ShaGGy]

Whats your long and lat m8 ?

I'm 8 degrees west so my nearest sat is Atlantic Bird 2.

So drive the motor to 0 and line up on that sat (different for you - and make sure its on 0) best as you can. Then once thats done move it to 13 then 19.2 etc etc and just fine tune as much as possible.

Do you have a meter or using the box ?

The reason why you do this is because that satellite is my true south mor or less and therefore at the very top of the arc.

Yet again Thanks Cauliflower
Mine are Lat 53.5 & Lon 2.16 W

Getting Meter in the morning btw

[ShaGGy]

All up and running

Had somehow when aiming for sout i had pointed the dish slightly to the right DOH (thats what you get for lineing it up when the light was fading fast i guess)

Managing to get most sats but needs a tweak and notice my pole is slightly tilted to the east so will correct that tomorrow.

But just wanted to say thanks for everyones input in here.

And with the really bad winds last night my dish and house are still standing

[cauliflower69]

Great to here m8. Happy to help