Need help with pointing Dish500 to 61.5

[sserdyuk]

Hi Everybody!

I have an old Dish500 antenna sitting outside and I would like to get international channels from Dish programming. The channels are on 61.5 satellite. Obviously this is not a standard setup, so there is no help from Dish Networks on this quest. I have removed switch, directly connected one of LNBs and tried to point the antenna using Dish300 azimuth and elevation and to search around this area, but no success. I realized that Dish500 has two focuses (since it has two LNBs) and satellite does not sit on the line antenna is pointed to. But technically there is nothing impossible here. Has anyone here had experience with cases like mine and can help and calculate azimuth and elevation for zip 05446? Sinse both numbers would depent on which of two LNBs I would be using, please specify that too.

Thank you! I am relying on your wisdom!

 

[dishman007]

move skew to 90 and tune

 

[sserdyuk]

move skew to 90 and tune

Tune using Dish300 numbers?

 

[dodge]

Dish 500 for Dish 300

If you move the skew on the 500 to 90 degrees you will use the Dish 300 Coordinates to aim, 61.5 is a real easy bird to aim

 

[sserdyuk]

If you move the skew on the 500 to 90 degrees you will use the Dish 300 Coordinates to aim, 61.5 is a real easy bird to aim

Does it matter then which of two LNBs I am using?

 

[jmcgee_jr]

IIRC people told me to use 119 eye and block out the 110 while you aim.

 

[Mr Tony]

use the left eye...that will work the best (this is if you are behind the dish)

cover the right one with tin foil

 

[sserdyuk]

I got it working. Big thanks to everybody. Azimuth was about the same, just a bit off to East, but elevation was 44 instead of 37. Go figure.

 

[dave7424]

I did the same thing back when the Voom channels started on 61.5. I also found the elevation wrong (too low). Either my house is crooked or the earth is getting cattywampus.