Problems installing dish 500...???

[nick2196]

Hello. I was trying to install my dish yesterday, and ran across some problems. This is the third location I have installed it, so I am decent with installation procedure. I am locating the 110 west dish excellently, with a 122 rating, but am not able to find the 119 dish at all. Do any of you have any tips with that? Oh, here's the weird thing... I am not hitting the 110 dish at the azimuth given on the dish network website. They say to hit at 240', and I am hitting more at the 190-210 mark. Do any of you have any experience to help with this?

Also, I just moved to baltimore, but need to get my cleveland channels. Is there ANY way to do this? I need my Browns games!!

Any help you can give me is appreciated!!

 

[jssat]

Set your angle and sku per your set up screen and slowly move dish to right. make sure your mast is plumb. hope this helps........

 

[Mr Tony]

Also, I just moved to baltimore, but need to get my cleveland channels. Is there ANY way to do this? I need my Browns games!!

Any help you can give me is appreciated!!

You're probably out of the spotbeam for Cleveland

 

[SimpleSimon]

I smell that you're getting the 110 satellite on the 119 LNBF, which means your dish is 9 degrees off-aim.

Cover the 119 LNBF with tinfoil. If signal disappears, that's it - rotate dish 9 degreees clockwise (west).

Your azimuth is probably off due to magnetic declination - compass reading has to be adjusted for your location. Here's a page with a graphic map of it: http://www.csgnetwork.com/antennasatelazposcalc.html Baltimore is about 11 degrees east, so that explains a chunk of the difference. That and the Dish 500 numbers for Baltimore are azi=230.7 elev=30 and skew=122.6

As for getting the Cleveland locals, they are on 110-2 spotbeam#10 per http://www.dishchannelchart.com/ Baltimore is a bit too far east for that - but it MIGHT work. Spotbeam map is here: http://ekb.dbstalk.com/pictures/echo8.gif