i know i am a newbie

[icu1954]

hi to every one,got my stuff hooked up yesterday,got everything set and positioned my dish to amc 1 got a signal and received the pentagon channel and a radio station,getting dark i was excited and said i would get some more channels tomorrow........today got started early went to moving my dish with a signal finder,getting weird readings and false signals,go in side and scan...nothing...did this all day back and forth..nothing...getting dark..just about to take a 5 pound hammer to the whole rig and a light comes on in my head...idiot,you never adjusted your skew after moving from amc 1...tomorrow i know i will be on track because i will always remember to adjust the skew...i'am learning every day guys thanks to you.

 

[brentb636]

Sometimes, even on the same sat, a particular tp comes in better with a different skew. Call me crazy, but it's a fact, that I generally forget about !

 

[turbosat]

icu, it is much easier if you can take a small tv and your receiver out to the dish. 100' of power cord was one of the best investments I ever made, lol.

 

[Tron]

...today got started early went to moving my dish with a signal finder,getting weird readings and false signals,go in side and scan...nothing...did this all day back and forth..nothing...getting dark..just about to take a 5 pound hammer to the whole rig and a light comes on in my head...idiot,you never adjusted your skew after moving from amc 1...tomorrow i know i will be on track because i will always remember to adjust the skew...i'am learning every day guys thanks to you.

Been there, done that. I was on a friend's roof for over two hours scratching my head with his fixed dish install until I realized that I hadn't re-adjusted skew when moving from 97W to 123W (this was when all of the nice Equity stuff was on 123W)... After adjusting the skew, I found signal in less than a minute.

I wasn't a newbie either, we all have "Duh!" moments ...

 

[Skyscanner]

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