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Four dishes: Dish 1000+: 110, 118, 119 & 129 (HD) Dish 500: 61.5 (Voom-HD) Fortec Star 90 cm: 91 & 82 (Bell ExpressVu HD) Fortec Star 100 cm: Motorized (HH-120) for FTA, but no HD wild feeds seen yet! ;)

In between all the rain, I'm actually doing my list. In the last week, I've updated one dish from 24" to 90cm, moved from a Dish 500 to a Dish 1000+ (adding two new LNBs), have added two more DPP44s to support 8 Dish receivers + 4 FTAs, and will next be upgrading my motorized dish from an...

Hi, Sadoun! I thought I'd already posted this, but obviously missed hitting the Post key! Please accept my sincere apologies for the misunderstanding - I'd never before encountered a drop-ship situation such as this one, and I was genuinely confused about where that package came from. As you...

Hi, Guys! If other folks try this out, please post your results here! If indeed this formula works out well enough, an interesting possibility comes up: you could reverse the formula as a means of measuring the focal length of any unknown dish. You'd want to be careful to measure accurately...

Hi, Anole! Many thanks for the excellent advice - I've revised the first post to include west/east, and have posted in both of the threads you mentioned (at least I think I posted in the right threads ;) ). Thanks again! Best Wishes! Mark

Hi, Howard! Recently, we've come up with a new solution to the offset LNB problem that appears to give very accurate results, as posted in Offset LNBs: Theory and Practice. I'd be happy to compute the offsets for you, if you'd like. To do so, I just need three numbers: your latitude and...

Hi, SForgue! I've made some progress on coming up with a more accurate formula for estimating offset LNB positions. Based on your zip code, the sat calculator I'm using says that the satellites are at: 119: Azimuth 149.17 - Elevation 13.58 110: Azimuth 139.83 - Elevation 11.28 The formula is...

Hi, Gang! As an interesting observation, when I say left/right or up/down motion, that's exactly what I mean. In the tests above, my motorized dish was practically laying on its side due to the very low elevation of the 82 degree satellite here. No matter which way your dish is oriented, the...

HI, Dem0nLord! Thank you very much! I appreciate the kudos! Best Wishes! Mark

Eureka! It Really Works!!! Hi, Folks! Yippee! It really works! There's just one small caveat: I had the sign bit wrong on the left/right correction. :o How I tested this was to rest the LNB on an old speaker with a varying pile of books on it, and placed this next to my motorized 80cm...

Hi, RWJGA! I've just finished installing a new Dish 1000+ setup, and I have exactly the same message (though it's in orange on my ViP 622). However, I believe that this is a normal message! With DishPro+ twin LNBs, they include an integrated switch, so they are capable of manipulating their...

Hi, Anole! Thanks for the very nice post! Unfortunately, it's raining again, and we're scheduled for three more days of rain before we get a break. I'm tired enough of being held back, though, that I may just risk dragging out the FTA receiver and the TV today if we get a short break. I may...

Hi, Anole! Let's use your example where I aim the dish halfway between the satellites. Only this time, we'll go after 119 and 129. As a result, we'll aim at a hypothetical satellite at the "124 orbital location", splitting the 10 degree difference. For my location (zip code 94306, in what is...

Hi, Bob! Exactly! In fact, in the example I gave for 110 and 119 from my home, the azimuth angle is a whopping (174.9 - 160.5) = 14.4 degrees, and from Acapulco, it'd be 18.5 degrees, even though the satellites are "only 9 degrees apart". The error keeps getting bigger as you go further south...

Hi, Anole! I don't know if this will help or not, but the formulas from the other thread will give perfect results if you are at the North pole (since the azimuth angle will exactly match the orbital spacing), but will yield increasing error as you head south, with a worst-case error at the...