Thread: need help.....getting a quality but not much

Outback you will surely find something soon. Aim your dish south with the compass , and put this satellite transponder info into your receiver. (This channel is on 74W which won't be far from your south-pointed dish) Check for Horizon2 in your sat list, if it isn't there, add it, then enter this transponder in that satellite's list : 11734 horizontal symbol rate 6616. That should help you find a signal, Ohio News Network, and it is a very strong signal. Check this site for correct elevation for that satellite for your location:

Satellite Look Angles Satellite Heading Calculator Azimuth Elevation Skew Tilt LNBF Latitude and Longitude values

Then just turn the dish slowly west on the pole and watch for signal activity on your rec.
I use that one all the time to locate a signal if I'm aiming a new dish. Good luck.

i wanted to say thanks again for all the help. you guys have been great here. i wanted to ask and let you know that I finally got 97w for a couple channels. i was so thrilled to see those lights go green. i was able to get 63 percent for tp 11867 (i hope i remember correctly). i waited on a sat meter from Sadoun. the meter was more frustration at first because im new to this. it did get me in the right direction and i finally got to see how it takes very little movement to lock a tp. my only thing is i can lock a couple tp's on 97w but not the whole satellite no matter what i do. what else beside movement am i missing? does a stationary dish lock all tp's for one sat? reason i ask is i was able to lock other tp's if moved upwards but i would loose 11867. is there one tp for 97w that will lock all the tps? this is the part i am cornfused about.

You have several different factors to consider, with a fixed dish its basically, azimuth (east/west), elevation, and skew. The dishpointer sites should give you skew for that satellite if you enter your location, and the other parameters too. Think of looking through a gunsight and putting something in the crosshairs, you're doing that with your dish. If you're a little low or high, or to the east or west too far, you may get some of the transponders but not all of them. I've done that before, and been able to get some tps of vertical or horizontal but not both,until I tweaked out the aiming just right.
Provided your dish pole is perfectly plumb as you can get it, and the skew is right and no obstructions between dish and satellite, you should get it right eventually. It can get tedious.

If you are trying to setup a mini-bud. It is going to be a lot of work.

If your LNBF is a DMX741U c/ku, the Ku performance is poor.

This LNBF is designed for a prime focus dish.

Most of these LNBF wind up on the shelf.

Did you get the WS conical scalar?

your right turbosat it can get tedious. i was locking the one tp and as soon as i tightened the screws the dish would drop a hair and it was lost. i played this dance for a half hour. i do have trees that are high but i think it is more of an adjustment because i could lock the other tps when i moved it a hair. the meter i put to the side of the dish and it kept locking sats but when i went inside nothing. the meter would also spike if i got near it. i was getting to many false reads so i finally brought out the tv and receiver. it has been fun to say the least. i want to get a motor asap. so this week i will be trying to get as many sats a poss by manually aiming them so i can get ready for the transition.