How to find trhe Sats

[pauljoy]

My receiver is a Dish VIP211 and the LNB's on my HD Dish are, 61.5, 72, 77. The menu 611 on the receiver doesn't give me anything on that Sat trio. I do have one of those small meters and I tried to align the dish using that but was only able to get sat 61.5. I have clear sight and I'm in the same area I was in when the dish was mounted to my house. We now live in our motorhome and I set the dish up on a tripod.
I figured that if I got 61.5 locked, then 72, & 77 would also lock. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Paul

 

[MattG@DISH]

I would get the satellite angles from dishpointer.com. Make sure you select the proper multi-lnb from the second drop down (Dish 1000.4)

http://www.dishpointer.com/

 

[garys]

You can get the starting dish settings at dishpointer.com, just fill in your address and use the 1000.4 dish for pointing to EA. I like to cover two of the lnb's and look for only one sat at a time, this makes sure you have the correct lnb seeing the correct sat. Once you find it, minor adjustments are all that should be needed to get the other two in. If you run a check switch, you may have to clear the matrix (run another check switch with the coax not connect to the receiver) as the receiver will only look for sats locked in, clearing it allows the receiver to find those not yet acquired.