dish skew

[llisinski]

I am in eastern pa and just recently had DN installed. In having the roof redone I had to bring the dish down and install it on a pole that had a dish on it prior to mounting it on the roof. I changed no settings on the dish and clamped it level and plumb. I have everything except HD channels USA, TNT. My question is in looking at the settings the tech set the dish to the skew was set at 90 degrees but using dishpointer they say the skew should be - 16.2 for my address. So does skew matter in this situation?

 

[KKlare]

Skew only applies if you have multiple LNBs to align them with reflected sky positions of the satellites. For example, if you have a separate 500 with one LNB, just set it to 90 for convenience. BTW, Dish adds 90 to keep them all positive.
-Ken

 

[llisinski]

Thanks for the response, it is a multi lnb on a turbo hd dish looking at 61.5, 72, and 77. I finally got a weak signal from 61.5,and picked up some hd channels I lost so maybe I'll try tweaking the elevation.