First of all, thanks for all the help and information on this forum, I've been thinking of getting FTA for a year or so I've been lurking on this forum and others off and on.
This was my second try to getting FTA working. With about 45 mins of daylight, now armed with the knowledge that Fortec dishes may be up to 5 degrees off in elevation (thanks Ice), I dragged out my temporary dish setup (mounted on 2ftx4ft plywood, did this when I lived in an apt for DISH), connected my signal meter (this time) and pointed it to TS, selected USALS then pointed it to 97w....
No signal at the calculated 39.4degrees dish elevation. Moved dish elevation slowly up and signal meter started screaming at little, then alot (now about 44 degrees). Scanned for channels, and got JCTV, etc. Moved dish to AMC6, but only got one channel (service 1).
Ran out of daylight, so packed up the dish off my driveway and now need to find a more permanent location. I now know the equipment is working.
Lessons learned:
1) Learn all you can on the equipment that you may purchased, I didn't and didn't know about the 5degree problem with Fortec dishes.
2) Use a signal meter, this is not DISH/Directv and FTA signals not as strong. The signal meter is more sensitive than the signal/quality meter on my Merc II.
Regards,
concord.
This was my second try to getting FTA working. With about 45 mins of daylight, now armed with the knowledge that Fortec dishes may be up to 5 degrees off in elevation (thanks Ice), I dragged out my temporary dish setup (mounted on 2ftx4ft plywood, did this when I lived in an apt for DISH), connected my signal meter (this time) and pointed it to TS, selected USALS then pointed it to 97w....
No signal at the calculated 39.4degrees dish elevation. Moved dish elevation slowly up and signal meter started screaming at little, then alot (now about 44 degrees). Scanned for channels, and got JCTV, etc. Moved dish to AMC6, but only got one channel (service 1).
Ran out of daylight, so packed up the dish off my driveway and now need to find a more permanent location. I now know the equipment is working.
Lessons learned:
1) Learn all you can on the equipment that you may purchased, I didn't and didn't know about the 5degree problem with Fortec dishes.
2) Use a signal meter, this is not DISH/Directv and FTA signals not as strong. The signal meter is more sensitive than the signal/quality meter on my Merc II.
Regards,
concord.