AIMING DISH

[visch1]

I’m expecting a new Hopper install next week and have a feeling that a couple of “junk” trees maybe in the path of aiming from where I want the dish to be mounted. For 61.5 the direction is indicated to be 167.2 degrees with the elevation of 41 degrees if I read it correctly. Is this direction true or magnetic North?
Then again maybe I’ll take down both. TIA

[ke4est]

Not sure what you are using to get your heading. Go to
www.dishpointer.com

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and plug in your address and select your satellite and it will give you both readings and show you a pretty picture of your house on the map.

[Wicked_Girl]

Ok...so I followed the advice to go to Dish Pointer (just because I was curious). I plugged in my address and it pulled up my house, but then proceeded to show me that the satellites are ALL on the opposite side of my house from my dish and off at a 90 degree angle from where the dish is pointed. I get my Dish signals fine, but I scurrilous about how to use Dish Pointer for future issues if arise. Did I do something wrong?

[3HaloODST]

Do you know what dish you have? Sounds like you have a WA dish and you're looking at the EA headings, or vice versa. The most common cause of confusion on that site regarding the 1000.x dishes are those with the 1000.4 WA that try to use 1000.4 settings on the site. The 1000.4 WA actually uses the 1000.2 settings on that site.

[Wicked_Girl]

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3Halo, I do not know what dish I have. I have a HD dish, and that is all I know. Where can I educate myself more about the dish types and what I may have? I did not notice any,where to change what dish I was using on that site. I will have to pay more attention.

[garys]

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If you can go to your point dish screen and see what sat locations you have. If it is 61.5, 72, 77 you use Dish 1000.4 on dishpointer, if it shows 110, 119, 129 then you would use 1000.2. Dish pointer is not set up to list the actual dish and you have to use the one that shows the sats you are using. I think if it was updated to what it should be would make it even more confusing.