Recent content by kambbado

You'll need to find your True South and point the dish towards it. Make sure that have no objects nearby blocking the signal.

I have decided to go stationary for now. I spent about 4 hours on Tuesday playing with the motor. Last night I was outside looking at the location, I have chosen for the dish, finally all of the reading and research helped. I cannot use that location with the motor. I'll need to move it to...

I'm at 01880 (Wakefield, MA). I have to use other satellites besides AMC6. If I point to AMC6 it points pine trees I have. I can use IA5 and AMC4 (stationary). I'm going to verify the pole again to see if it is plumb (it was), dish and motor elevation. Otherwise I'll take out the motor and...

Thanks voomvoom, I believe you may have identified something. For clarification, do I need to calculate my Azimuth ? My Azimuth is 180 + 16 for declination which make it 196. This is where I have been pointing my dish. Or should I just point the dish to 72W?

I have looked at your thread and I tried to follow it, but I'm still off. I used it to verify my installation. Next weekend, if not too cold, I will try to play with it again. Thank you for the help.

I tried this weekend to activate my motor. I pointed to my True South then I had it point to IA5 and then do some tweaks. I was able to pick a few channels like "learn3", but not IA5 channels. I have been wondering if my motor is up-side-down. According to instructions I have it installed...

wakefield, MA 01880

Last week I decided to get a motor. I wanted to get other FTA channels without getting other dishes. I spent this weekend setting up the motor. I followed the instructions that came with motor and instructions from Sadoun. I have the dish attached to a plumb steel post. I tried to point...

Thanks Brian, that is probably what happened. I will adjust it this weekend and drill the hole in the Spring. What type of steel posts are best, will fence posts work?

Since the rain and the cold weather my dish seems to be pointing to AMC1. I'm picking up he Pentagon Channel. How could the cold shift the dish that many degrees? I have it attached to a wooden fence, it seems that everything shrunk enough to trow off the direction. Has anyone have a similar...

I would say ~120 feet. I have DishNetwork and it is getting the RTPI, different satellite. May be I need to do some tweaking at the dish. I read on some forums, people mentioning tweaking to increase the signal. How do you go about doing that?

Lost RTPI signal Since last Saturday all was working well. Yesterday we had rain and some frozen rain. Now I cannot pickup the RTPI. :confused: The dish is clean and has no ice on it. I can still pickup the AMC4 satellite and I can pickup other channels. I have been wondering if the...

I currently have a dish pointing to AMC4 KU. I would like to pickup a few more channels. I don't know is I can add more LNBs to my current dish ( need to call Sadoun). I have been looking at the Toroidal 90, starting with a couple of LNBs then adding more later. How difficult is installation...

Success in getting AMC4 RTPI I just wanted to express my gratitude for all the help and the extensive information at this site. I spent all day setting up the dish. I was able to pickup IA5 (a lot of Asian channels) and them I adjusted the dish to get AMC4 for RTPi. I use the the signal...

Azimuth Calculation and Compass to point Satellite Dish What a way to loose way.....:) I have a couple of dumb questions that I'm having difficulty figuring out. 1. According to Sadoun instructions I need to find the Azimuth then add (my case) the "magnetic declination". If my Azimuth is...