for some reason G10 is one of my hardest sats to find
I am near Boston and, for the life of me, cannot pull this bird in. Line of sight is okay, but not perfect. I have a Channel Master 1.2 meter dish. Anyone have any thoughts?
I have my Channel Master 1.2m on a SG2100 motor and it doesn't always stop exactly were it should when the dish rotates.
Ive noticed this as well with my 1m winegard. 123 is my true north an as a test if I come from the far east to 123 I get a different signal % then if I come from the far west.
I went up on the roof and there is defn slack in the motor, with my spectrum I can go from no signal, to full signal, to no signal, all within the slack.
Ive had the motor for just over a year, its quite windy here and the dish does get a good rattleing some days lol.
premeture wear ?
any idea when g10's replacement will be up and running?I concur with all on G10. Hopefully G10's replacement will be stronger and not so weak. Even on my bent dish, I get a decent, but not perfect signal. I can count on only getting the 11720 Mux ONCE in a while. The weather has to be perfect for it to come in.
Go out to images.google.com and type in compass in the search and pick out a nice picture of a compass. Print it out, and cut a white circle of paper to blot out the middle decorations leaving just the numbers on the outside. Then copy the compass so you have a nice clean one to start with.
Then go buy a 99 cent protractor and run a coat thread or heavy thread tied to a small plastic button on one end. Run the thread through the center hole and cut it just below the edge of the protractor and clamp a fishing weight on the end.
Find the azimuth of the sats you want to hit, and draw the lines across the face of the paper compass and any other info you want.
Here is what they will look like when finished:
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Then use your real compass to find North. Find a landmark not too far away, and point the North of the paper compass towards it sitting right on top of the dish. Then look at the LNB arm of the dish and line it up with your drawn line.
Follow the directions at this site for using the protractor.
All that will get you very close.
I already had the mount up, and pretty close to plumb and the dish on it and all wired up when I started today, so all I did was loosen the bolts and did the above.
Had G10R locked and fine tuned in less than 15 minutes.
I did the same with G27 and it took me about 30 minutes because I got cocky after G10 and didn't sight North just right.
These two hand made tools are the best I have ever found, and I made them myself.
Hope they help you.
Fred
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