motor vs. stationary dish aiming ???

[mrohler]

when I had trouble getting more than half the tp's on 119 i decided to hook up the 18"er and when i got it locked onto 119 then pointed my 33" on a pm900s to the same they appear to to be pointing ~3deg different the lil dish is further west is it really off that much you think? it tracks all sats
think I set it up wrong somehow? or is it normal for it to seem so far off

NOTE: Thed 18" is directly below the 33" on the same pole

 

[JohnL]

when I had trouble getting more than half the tp's on 119 i decided to hook up the 18"er and when i got it locked onto 119 then pointed my 33" on a pm900s to the same they appear to to be pointing ~3deg different the lil dish is further west is it really off that much you think? it tracks all sats
think I set it up wrong somehow? or is it normal for it to seem so far off

NOTE: Thed 18" is directly below the 33" on the same pole

If your Mounting arm is NOT perfectly Plumb then any readings of Azimuth and or elevation you have your Dish set at are OFF.

It's quite likely either or of your Dish's are not plumb. This will always make any setting of your Dish wrong so you have to "play" with the Dish to get a signal.

John

 

[Shawn95GT]

when I had trouble getting more than half the tp's on 119 i decided to hook up the 18"er and when i got it locked onto 119 then pointed my 33" on a pm900s to the same they appear to to be pointing ~3deg different the lil dish is further west is it really off that much you think? it tracks all sats
think I set it up wrong somehow? or is it normal for it to seem so far off

NOTE: Thed 18" is directly below the 33" on the same pole

The difference is that your motorized dish is skewing.