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    Installing C-band pole.

    It depends on your soil. Here I had a 10' mesh dish with a 24" deep by 6" diameter hole and 1 bag of quickkrete red. That one lasted 4 years two near by tornadoes and 3 tropical storms and was taken down when I moved. The second one had a similar hole with an 8' mesh and it has survived...
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    Fine tuning a BUD

    I went out and messed with the dish for about 30 minutes tonight until the rain started. I was about a degree off. Maybe I will get some time tomorrow to finish tweaking the dish.
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    Fine tuning a BUD

    Where did you get the 35.52 degrees, declination to 5.03? That's where I am getting confused. How do you take the latitude of 34.9 and get to 35.53? How do you calculate the declination to end up with 5 degrees?
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    Fine tuning a BUD

    I figured it out. I had "(at symbol) 85 degrees" in my post. Silly me. I've worked for an ISP for almost 10 years and I didn't know that the at symbol was part of a url :)
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    Fine tuning a BUD

    Let's try this again for the 10th time. I am at 34.9 - 85.1. My true south Satellite is AMC2 at 85 degrees. I went to a site to calculate the elevation which turns out to be 49.48 degrees. This is where I get a little confused or maybe not. Would I set the elevation (the bar that the dish...
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    Fine tuning a BUD

    UGH! I am trying to make a post but the site keeps telling me I can't post a URL until I have made 15 posts. The problem is that there is no form of a URL in the message. So this is kind of a how do you get around that with out making 15 replies / test message.