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Interesting. There was a fellow in the NL a few years ago who placed 3 & 4 small ku dishes in a clover leaf pattern and built a tripod for prime focus lnbf. The before and after signal strengths showed that it worked pretty well.

I take the mount degree stampings with a grain of salt. They aren't finite nor accurate to a tee. "Racking" the side-side declination a touch is understandable because that's exactly what I did to get perfect tracking. There's a bit of "what if I????"

"getting everything on 91 that I had and I'm getting everything on 133" Okay. Let's take a more logical approach. Look at the diagram and try to digest what is going on with your tracking. Jot everything down on paper. My dish mount azimuth is roll pinned on the 6" well casing it's been on since...

Personally I would start at the bottom inset of the attachment. Figure out where the major tracking error is happening and then making adjustments to minimize them. Then work wider and wider arcs.

Look. The CM/Andrews/Raven dishes are basically the same animal. No need to dive deep, just accept that the look angle is 22.6 degrees. If you're a tenth or so off either way. No biggie. Is that thing flopped on the ground and propped up with your brother's boots? Let's see the back of it. Does...

A few things not mentioned that may help. I helped a Brit get his same dish setup. It took a bit but eventually he "got it". The LNBF. How rigid is it on the dish? Is the "look angle" correct? The LNBF needs to be set to see signals reflected 22.5 degrees off of the face of the dish. More on...

I would ask you to provide more detailed photos of the feed. With a side view of the scalar and how far the lnbf 'snout' is sticking out from it. Plus any markings on the lnbf such as the 0 reference. Sorry for my unfamiliarity with the c238. But. As the instructions say. With the dish at the...

Now wait a cotton pickin' minute. lol. That is Definitely NOT a c238 lnbf in your picture. And whatever it is, I see two things that stand out like a sore....oh, you know what. For the angle the dish is pointed, the lnbf should be oriented at a different skew angle. If the dish were pointed...

Pulled my retired Wild Blue dish from 'the pile'. It initially had a tria mounted under the arms pointed at a subreflector. It took a bit of doing. The water trik was a disaster. Little stick on mylar mirrors and maybe a little smoke. The sun and a piece of paper. With a bit of playing around...

Tune the alignment. Grab a digital angle gauge. Like the Klein from Home Depot. That's what I use.

That is true also FT. Forgot you can burn a bootable flavor of linux and run it off of a flash drive.

I occasionally need to read linux and osX files on my pc. There are several options out there. I don't really have a favorite. Just what works. https://www.linuxfordevices.com/tutorials/linux/access-linux-files-on-windows

I don't get the cells. But try filling that bottle with water and see the results

Then a complete alignment will be needed. The guide Brian linked will help. Get that dish arced in the air as high as it will go with the actuator and use the angle gauge to make sure it is. Dishpointer.com is where you can go to find your true South and use landmarks to get your dish just as...

Couple things. Was it tracking correctly before? Did you change any of the geometry when you changed the actuator? Did the dish spin on the pole or is it still locked in place? With 100% on 101. When you steer it to 99W and get a signal. Does pulling down or pushing up on the dish rim do...

Geesh. Just pull the drive and put it in a pc and copy away. Oh It's internal flash. Oops. The com port is usually for firmware updates like the guys said. There is an old review here. Are you sure you can't see the internal storage on your network? It looks like there are file transfer options...

For me. It's now entirely a digital angle gauge. For me anyhow. A Klein Tools from HD. Great for setting up elevation and declination angles and the tweaks needed to get a dish tracking correctly. A bit jealous now because mine reads to 0.1 degree. My circle dirt friends have one the same size...

Oh. We're speaking the forbidden "e" word. You a car guy? Until you put a chip in it. Things that aren't apparent in performance would never be discovered. The feds don't approve. And Cali. will eat you alive now. How about an audio nut? You can download an SACD but never be able to play it on a...

ACM/VCM

I had a little time. Messaged you. Don't freeze out there.

Kind of a bummer because he has a polar mount. We spoke today and there was a conversation a week or so back. The pole is not plumb in the ground. And so far he's moved the dish more like an az/el would be. So yeah. The dish has been spun on the pole and the elevation has been changed. There a...

Looks about as tickled at xmas as I would be. Huh!

No man. I'm serious. Ain't that cool?