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Thanks again, have taken the chainsaw to prune the tree again, thats the easiest and the wifes out. Took about 0.6m off. (60cm) Missed your M or m on line. smalll m is used. (6m.) same as (600cm.) Dont know why decimalisation didnt take of in the states, england also use mostly feet and inches...

Thanks again, I will raise the dish maybe a meter as wifey wont let me prune more off the tree. I could find another place but would be inconvienience. So I will lift to start with. Does the signal come in over the whole area of the dish, I thought it was just a beam hitting a point and then...

Hello FTA, hope you see this. I am having a problem getting a fix on the Thor 5/6 at 0.8w, as I said earlier I probably must drastically prune a damson tree, well I have lopped it down to 4.5m height. It is 6m from my dish. The bottom of my dish is 1.1mt with the top being another 2.1mt higher...

Ok. So I am at 46°31'13" so I can also say 47° is that so. Its is important that I get the basics right. I will now consentate on makeing the polar mount and no doubt I will be looking for help in the future. Zhanks for all the information. Pity you dont live a little nearer or better still...

Thanks again FTA, Your explanation is perfect, I had already printed out the link you attached ''Footprints by Dish Size - Latitude Declination Chart - C/Ku-Band Satellite Listing'' From the same site I had already printed out the 17 pages of "Adjusting the polarMount3/3" this I keep reading...

Hello FTA, I did write further last night but I must of missed the enter as its not there anymore. I will just write the jist as I wrote quite a lot. When I connected my spiderbox by the dish, instead of 28.2 Astra it was 19.2 astra,. the old box is for nothing. Didnt catch the sun at due south...

PICT3226 - Kopie.JPG (127.0 KB) It couldnt be that easy as I said but the idea was on the right track. By the lower support arm will that cast a shadow? Now when you say 'if a satellite is not at zenith, find it's azimuth' Is this the azimuth that is on the Satelite Antenna Alighnment table eg...

Thanks, Slowly it is coming together, a light at the end of the tunnel (cable) as it were. I had wondered what the suns azimuth tables could do to help, This is typical, it hasnt rained for months and today when I want the sun it is raining and could rain for the next 3 or 4 days. As of todays...

Hello again, I seem to have made some progress and wanted to add a postscript to my last thread. To start with I set my dish to vertical, then added an inclonometer (an old Variable set square) I set the dish with the 9.9° tilt back, turned the dish approximatly to 28.2° and I had a wonderfull...

Thanks again, Maybe I am making a little progress, its just that I put the angle the wrong way. Is it to do with N Hemisphere dish tilts back and Southern forewards, I cant quite grasp it. BUT as you put it which is the main thing the equasion is Sat Elv - Dish offset angle. Now in my mind, tell...

Hello again and thanks again. The calc tables obviously help the duffers like me who have forgotten all about geometry. I have now hopefully calcuated my dish offset, also the elevation of astra 2D 28.2°E. Attached a screen prints to help you think my thoughts on the outcome. Having found the...

Thanks a lot, I have looked at the different links and downloaded the calc progs plus the seperate charts. I think to start with I will try to set my dish to one satellite probably Astra 2A/2D at 28.2E using my existing mount ( in the pic above) as it will take a bit of time to contruct the...

Hello The handyman, I like what you have made. I have a similar problem as you had. I have a Northern Satelite Corp NSC 18-1 dish 2.1 x 1.85 m. (probably 6' 6"x 6' 0" or so) Complete with stays, feed horn and dish mount. Problem 1. I have attached 2 pics of my dish with the rotating mount, I...