Ok..
I have reached the point of absolute cluelessness..
I have no clue how the motor attaches to this thing. I have no clue if I'm even close.
I have seen various photos of this dish assembled and they are all different. So I do not know which one is the right one.
I think that because everyone lives in different parts of the country it affects how you assemble the thing. I just do not know.
So, just for kicks, I went outside and stuck the motor on the dish in what I ~think~ is somewhat similar to how I've seen others done on here.
And to be honest, for now, getting the motor working is a very low priority, on a scale of 1-10, I put that at a 1. The main thing for now is using the motor to just keep the dish from flailing about in the wind.
I just want to aim this dish at
C-band 87 and leave it there for the immediate future. I'll worry about making the motor work later this summer when I can afford another Gbox. The BIG dish, I do want to motorize it, right away, as soon as I get it put up.
Anyway..
So here is all this wacky stuff on the back of this dish that I don't know about. Then there is the LNB on the front.
The arms that hold the ring, I don't know if I have them right. They were bent at weird angles when I opened the box and I couldn't make any sense of that so I sort of bent them flat(ter)..
Then there is the LNB. It rotates. Like, 360 degrees. And, it slides in and out of the ring. A lot.
All that geometry stuff about how to adjust these things is beyond me. I totally stink at math and my math skills are sub-basic. Geometry makes my brain melt down just looking at it. I can not comprehend geometry, at all.
I think my best bet is to just take the squealy meter out there and play pot-luck trying to find the satellite. Maybe I'll get lucky.
In the meantime, I've knocked off for the evening so I'm going to spend the rest of the evening pouring over photos and stuff you guys have posted and see if I can figure it out.
Dear goddess I feel like such an idiot.... And a lost one at that..