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I have a couple of brand new 10-foot Sami Mesh dishes for a new radio station and am having much difficulty in aiming these puppies at Galaxy 17 and AMC 3 to pick up our programming. We pointed to the correct elevation and degrees, yet got no signal at all, even when we made adjustments. Any suggestions?
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Several years ago

Several years ago a friend gave me a 12 foot Paraeclipse Mesh dish. Everything as far as the skew was basically set up. All I had to do was move the from one location to another. I had a hand held meter, a TV and a receiver and at that time many analog channels was being transmitted. I also have the advantage of having another 10' foot Sami right beside of the location for the Para. Let me tell you I worked for days trying to hit one Satellite and all I had to do was basically adjust the elevation. I think I readjusted that dish a 1000 times and could never get a signal. I had to call the guy who installed my dish and although he had been out of the business for several years he came by and helped me. Took him about 5 minutes to stick the dish on the arc. I think everything I did was wrong and he had to undo everything and start all over. I know a lot more about installing a dish now and have a lot more experience and I was lucky enough to have him teach me some tricks. That said I would still rather have someone help with the install of a Large dish..LOL what a pain that was...
Anole
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I have a couple of brand new 10-foot Sami Mesh dishes ...
... We pointed to the correct elevation and degrees, ...
Who assembled the dishes or installed them?
You can do a string test with string stretched across the dish vertically and horizontally, to see if it's built right.

The feedhorn needs to be located accurately, so measure from the left edge of it to the left edge of the dish...
...repeat right, up, down, and make sure all numbers are equal.

The feed needs to be aimed at the center of the dish.
Sometimes we use a laser pointer instead of the feed, to make sure it's aimed well.

If the dish is on just a fixed mount, then the elevation you set is the elevation you get.
No need to worry about declination, nor any arc tracking.

However, the azimuth you need to aim is affected by the local magnetic variation.
So, any proper sat finder program will give you the azimuth for your location to your chosen bird.
That's another source of error for the unwarry.

And the last thing I can think of is already mentioned twice above: skew.
You have to rotate the feed or the probe ... or accommodate it however necessary.

The Geo-Orbit web site is good for reading about the basics, if you would like to do some research.
However, that said, we won't abandon you to your own devices.

Now that I think of it, proper in/out adjustment of the feedhorn in the scalar to set the F/D is also ... useful.
Probably won't kill you, but having everything set correctly is what you want, so I bring it up.

Think that covers the basics.
No reason you can't learn and do by your self.
Anole
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                    College Station, Brazos, Texas 77840
                Latitude 30° 36.879'N Longitude 96° 19.585'W

                              Sat Name, Sat Lng, Az(t), [COLOR=Red]Az(m)[/COLOR],    El,  Skew
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                                 [/FONT][U][URL="http://www.satstar.net/beam.html?bid=2493601"][FONT=Fixedsys]AMC-3[/FONT][/URL][/U][FONT=Fixedsys],   87.0W, 162.1, [COLOR=Red]158.2[/COLOR],  52.9, -15.3
                             [/FONT][U][URL="http://www.satstar.net/beam.html?bid=3130701"][FONT=Fixedsys]Galaxy 17[/FONT][/URL][/U][FONT=Fixedsys],   91.0W, 169.6, [COLOR=Red]165.7[/COLOR],  53.9,  -8.9     [/FONT]
knowmiddlename
Hopefully, Dennis got his problem resolved. The larger the dish, the longer it takes to find the bird. Having the correct tools is a must. A magnetic elevation level and a spectrum analyzer with a fast responding spectral graph works wonders. The difference is two days of frustration now becomes one hour of fun. ;)
truckracer
A 10' dish is much more precise in aiming. I have a Sami 10' and it's quite touchy on ku with the half degree beamwidth @ ku frequencies. It's quite an impressive ku big dish with a corotor II feedhorn and norsat lnbs.

Being sure your feed is perfectly center is extremely important.
Being sure your f/d is set (how far the feedhorn is pushed into the scalar ring)if I remember right your f/d for a sami 10' should be .38
your feedhorn should be marked on the outside and that .38 line goes at the edge of the scalar ring.
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Another Tulsa King spin off.🙄
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Another Tulsa King spin off.🙄
But.....if you like Tulsa King....looks like you would probably like this as well. I don't mind spin-offs as long as they don't involve a sassy niece who moves from the big city :rolleyes:
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I thought I would come here and find lots of complaints about the update to the dish anywhere mobile app, but am not seeing any. It used to look just like the desktop webpage. Now you can no longer filter by sports channels or movie channels. Plus that they made it look like a big button telephone and you see fewer channels in the screen which requires more scrolling. Yes I realize you can look at sports then select which sport you want to look at, I just liked being able to see all sporting events in the guide with all other channels being filtered out. Am I alone in the wilderness on this?
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Not alot of dish customers any more
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I'm not a big fan of the new layout, especially on my Apple TV. It used to look like the old Guide layout on the Hopper 3, but they changed parts of that, too.
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I really dislike change for the sake of change
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Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.

I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
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Jimbo

Howard ...
You don't like Tony, or Tony as the Director (he's only been there for 30 seconds now) or you don't like NCIS ?
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Howard ...
You don't like Tony, or Tony as the Director (he's only been there for 30 seconds now) or you don't like NCIS ?
Tony as the director.🙄
Jimbo
Tony as the director.🙄
Would you rather have LaRoche ???
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I liked this episode and a toned down Tony...
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Would you rather have LaRoche ???
No. Bring in someone new.🤔 Tony is not serious enough for me. Parker is too close to the team and Tim is too young to take over IMO.
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No. Bring in someone new.🤔 Tony is not serious enough for me. Parker is too close to the team and Tim is too young to take over IMO.
I don't think Tim and Tony are that far apart in Age ...

Remember what Tony said to Tim when they first got back together ...
Tony said: I am the New Tony, Tim .... (something to that effect)

Tony has changed, he's been running his Security Business ... I'm sure he has grown up.

Give it time ... your judging the New Tony from the old Tony.

It sounds like Tim won't be around the Team much longer either.
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Might be worth a watch when it comes out. Looks like typical big corp against the little guy movie BUT....there is a reason this plot type is so oft repeated, it draws audiences.


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dishstaller
BTW, I noticed right after I posted this that someone else had already mentioned it....sorry for the duplicate thread. Still looking forward to seeing the movie.
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If you're going try to read / listen to the book (can't recommend the audio book enough) before this comes out, I'd avoid trailers.

Trailer below, spoiling it to make sure you read the above bold message first. The book / audio book are fantastic. Go into this blind if you can IMO!




Kind of disappointed at how much they show. A lot still to see, but man, some good reveals in the book that are just served up here.
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I've seen it twice. Can't recommend the audio book enough, Ray Porter's performance is amazing and there's so much more in the book than the movie.
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"Project Hail Mary" should be on Prime Video starting Friday, July 3.
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Forgot to comment. I did watch when it first came out on MGM. I enjoyed it a lot. I think reading the book made it easier to watch. Several friends commented it was a little hard to follow.
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"astrophage". I read the book but didn't see the film yet.
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"Project Hail Mary" should be on Prime Video starting Friday, July 3.
That's what I will be watching this weekend.🤗
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Kindle book on sale for $2.99 today at Amazon.
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.........there's so much more in the book than the movie.
I agree. That can go for pretty much any book vs movie. Back when I was single I would read any Stephen King or John Grisham book I could get my hands on. When you read a book you make up the scenes and characters in your mind.....the movie version always disappoints.
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Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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Selfish Drake Maye holds back on giving the ball to Bills unlike Jags game, gets the win on the road.
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Selfish Drake Maye holds back on giving the ball to Bills unlike Jags game, gets the win on the road.
A big win for the Patriots, and they are now 3-2.

Browns lose a close one with... The Jets. That is a classic Browns loss (granted, any loss is a classic one it seems). 49'ers, Vikings, and Chiefs remain undefeated. The AFC north have a three way tie at 3-2 for second place. :eek:
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.
After having experienced Gus Ferguson trying to call soccer games, I'm uncertain why NFL football analysts get hate. Even the "worst" of them are pretty good.
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Jalen Hurts out indefinitely as they treat and monitor a superficial blood clot in his leg.


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I had quit watching this show years ago because I ended up more annoyed than entertained. Well......I'm STILL more annoyed than entertained. I DO find it interesting to see how things work behind the scenes at many businesses. What annoys me is how utterly out of touch CEOs are with the companies they run. At the end of almost every episode the head of the company is amazed at how hard the employees have to work and many times have to work around impossible guidelines set forth from headquarters.

I found this one interesting because the new CEO had big plans for this company, Muscle Maker Grill, and it looked like the stores were all pretty busy. Recent history hasn't been good to this company however. I bet the covid lockdowns were the real killer.


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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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