Thread: Got a New Dish, recommendations for LNB?

Originally Posted by southofi-10

The tilt is called skew.The purpose is to adjust the dish for maximum reception.
If the dish is made to use a 40mm throat ,then "most" all fta lnbs will fit.The rotation (or also called skew) of the lnb is for the same reason.You can set your dish up for that degree,but I found in most cases,you will need to make minor adjustments to the lnb.Some don't call for a skew,but when turned one way or the other could improve signal.This usually depends on what size dish your using also.

So are you saying that the skew can be done with the Dish itself and not just the LNB?

If the whole dish can be skewed (ChannelMaster dishes usually do) then skew the whole dish
If you can't then just skew the LNB. You would twist the LNB clockwise or counter depending on sat. Being in Kamloops pretty much all your sats would be clockwise (if you're standing in front of the dish facing it) except maybe 125W

Originally Posted by Iceberg

If the whole dish can be skewed (ChannelMaster dishes usually do) then skew the whole dish
If you can't then just skew the LNB. You would twist the LNB clockwise or counter depending on sat. Being in Kamloops pretty much all your sats would be clockwise (if you're standing in front of the dish facing it) except maybe 125W

Okay, the whole dish does skew. I was just confused looking at some of the LNB's available they don't look like they can be skewed. So I wasn't sure if it was
just a bracket that I need or if it could be accomplished with the dish itself.

If the dish skews then you take the numbers that places like DIshpointer show for skew from 90

so if it shows -10 skew then the dish gets skewed to 80

Originally Posted by patch101

So are you saying that the skew can be done with the Dish itself and not just the LNB?

Yes, as Ice has stated.
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You can see with my ROC on the far left the LNB is "square" with the dish and the "tilt", skew, was done with the dish rotating.