newbie question: aligning dish

[jkrobbie]

Hey Everyone. I'm new to FTA. I have a Captive WOrks CW-600S and a 1.2m dish with a lone LNB. It's got a motor too.

SO, I was out trying to align it to 123W, but could not seem to pick anything up. I'm in SW Colorado. I used a heading calculator online to check everything and found my elevation needs to be 44.3, azimuth (magnetic) at 193.3 and LNB skew at 18.7. Everything seemed to be correct and I did get significant signal strength, but no quality. I needed to pop inside on occasion to check what the TV was reading.

Any helpful suggestions?

Kelly

 

[voomvoom]

If you have a motor, like you say you do, you should set the motor elevation to your latitude (your location), and then set the dish up for the satellite located at (or closest to) your longitude. The dish motor should be on a parallel line running north and south, with the dish pointing south. And then using the motor and receiver, drive the dish to the closest satellite to your longitude location. Then try setting it up to receive that satellite, after you get it, then you can try for others, like G18 at 123 west.
Good Luck..!!

 

[Cadsulfide]

Your'e looking for signal Q more so than signal strength.

 

[gillham]

Your'e looking for signal Q more so than signal strength.

Also make sure you're looking at a known transponder, preferably a strong one from The List, while aligning the dish. You'll never see any quality unless your receiver is watching a specific transponder.

 

[brentb636]

Also ... Make sure the skew on the lnbf is set to ZERO. The motor automatically skews the lnbf as it moves across the arc.