Pointing Dish. AGAIN

[bwexler]

Well I am visiting my sick brother in law for a month or 2, so I am taking my HWS with me.
I am attempting to setup my dish on a tripod. I started with Dishpointer AR, so I could "see" the satellites in the sky and verigy line of sight. Then I set the post on the tripod level and nailed the tripod to the ground.
For the first time in the 12+ years that I have owned my signal meter I actually had it with me when setting up a dish. I put it in line between the Duo Node and the HWS, turned on the TV and put Point Dish on the screen. Set the angle and the skew and scanned the dish back and forth around the direction DishPointer indicated. No Joy.
So I removed the signal meter from the system and tried again.
What in the world am I doing wrong. Do the dishes just hate me?

 

[ChadT41]

Well I am visiting my sick brother in law for a month or 2, so I am taking my HWS with me.
I am attempting to setup my dish on a tripod. I started with Dishpointer AR, so I could "see" the satellites in the sky and verigy line of sight. Then I set the post on the tripod level and nailed the tripod to the ground.
For the first time in the 12+ years that I have owned my signal meter I actually had it with me when setting up a dish. I put it in line between the Duo Node and the HWS, turned on the TV and put Point Dish on the screen. Set the angle and the skew and scanned the dish back and forth around the direction DishPointer indicated. No Joy.
So I removed the signal meter from the system and tried again.
What in the world am I doing wrong. Do the dishes just hate me?

What Dish and what satellites are you pointing at? What is the zip code? And I know you said the tripod was levelled, but I would strongly recommend double checking. Lastly, Run a Check Switch test with no coax plugged in, and save the matrix. Then run it again once you feel you MIGHT have it pointed. That just clears the matrix that may be confusing the reciever.

 

[bwexler]

I am looking for 110 119 129 Western ark with a 1000.4 WA dish. It is the one with the fine tuning screws for elevation azimuth.
Zip code is 92078 in San Marcos, CA.

 

[JSheridan]

Well I am visiting my sick brother in law for a month or 2, so I am taking my HWS with me.
I am attempting to setup my dish on a tripod. I started with Dishpointer AR, so I could "see" the satellites in the sky and verigy line of sight. Then I set the post on the tripod level and nailed the tripod to the ground.
For the first time in the 12+ years that I have owned my signal meter I actually had it with me when setting up a dish. I put it in line between the Duo Node and the HWS, turned on the TV and put Point Dish on the screen. Set the angle and the skew and scanned the dish back and forth around the direction DishPointer indicated. No Joy.
So I removed the signal meter from the system and tried again.
What in the world am I doing wrong. Do the dishes just hate me?

I do believe the signal meter should be between the dish and the node, not the node and the HWS.

 

[Scherrman]

Generally you always have the meter closest to the Dish, since you are there moving the dish and you need to see the meter too.

 

[NYDutch]

Also make sure the magnetometer (compass sensor) in your phone has been calibrated to get the correct info for Sat AR. Hold the phone vertically and swing it through about a dozen figure eights, and then try your sighting again. Magnetic phone cases are particularly notorious for messing up the compass calibration.

 

[Brussam]

The metal dish will affect magnetic compass readings. Depending where in the country you are it can be as high as 19 degrees (i.e. a desired Azimuth of 221 might read 240 on the compass).

The closer to the dish, the more the Magnetic Deviation. The farther from the dish, the less accurate viewing of the dish direction.

 

[az99]

Try this. Just connect 1 cable to the LNB. The far left one looking at the connections side of the LNB. That will be 119. Do not connect any node. Connect meter between LNB and Hopper. Verify on the hopper that you have 119. Then connect the rest of the cables and node and run the Test Switch. It may need some tweaking but should be close if pole is plumb and other settings are correct.
Your elevation should be 51.4º, skew 92.8º aiming at 171.4º magnetic.

Hope that helps.