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There's no dish installed. I'm just basing my would-be LOS to the satellite on the elevation given at dishpointer.com, which is about 37 degrees. I presume that I don't add another 15 or 20 degrees to that 37 and that it is just 37 that I am sighting for. Correct?

That's not an option. We are talking about a branch atop a 120 foot pine tree that's not on my property.

People usually get excellent reception from 110W. Perhaps what, 80? Assume 80. By how much would reception drop if I had to go through one branch of a pine tree? Not the pine tree itself, I'm to the left of that, but just one single branch with its needles. I see plenty of sky through the...

If you are getting 61.5 on port #1, then you found 61.5 on the wrong port and you'll need to repostion the dish. From this position you will need to rotate your dish counterclockwise (to the left) by a lot. At my location in NC this would be about 25 degrees in azimuth. Alternatively, you...

I did a second install today. This time I connected my receiver to port #3 and looked for 61.5 (while pointing toward 72). Worked very well as others here have suggested.

If the signal number includes a degree of quality and not just strength, for example if it is a signal to noise ratio measurement, then maybe you have a noise or other quality issue with your port #1 path. To verify, you can swap out your LNB assembly with a new one. I've seen them cheaply...

This is interesting. Thanks. In a way, I did max the signal on 72. Here's what I did. I was forced to do the peaking on 77 port 1. Then I bolted down and ran a check switch. Got all three. Then from there tweaked the fine-tune controls to maximize 72 and 61.5. 72 and 61.5 and 72 tracked exactly...

Yes and no. Yes, port 1 finally got around to sending all three LNB's to the receiver, but only after doing another check switch in which all three sats were hitting all three LNB's. No, port 1 for sure only saw 77 when the prior check switch test returned 72/Conn/Conn (which means the previous...

Thanks all. Success! I was able to turn the dish to the right exactly by the difference that dishpointer.com claims lies between 77 and 72.7 sats, 7 degrees, and BANG! Saw 77 on port 1 and then I bolted it down and ran a check switch and I got all three satellites on the eArc. Turns out I...

Thanks MikeD. That's what I'm trying to do: get to a check switch result of 77/72.7/61.5. Right now I'm showing 72/Conn/Conn and enjoing core programming. I'd like to see if I can get there by simply adjusting azimuth to the right a little, without clearing out the orbitals, which takes forever...

Thanks dahenny. Are you sure this will work given that port 2 and port 3 show NoConnectoin on the check-switch test results (as shown in the attached photo in the original post)? I'm thinking that port 2 and 3 lnb's are not necessarily available through port 1 given these test results. If...

There is a is 4.3 degree difference between the 72.7 and 77 satellites from the center of the earth . But from my location, the angle difference is more, accoring to dishpointer.com it is 7.2 degrees. I've read many threads here that made it clear that many have successfully peaked a 1k.4...