setup wally 1000.2 dish

[bobtet]

please cut me some slack on this, i am 81 yrs young and not too tech savvy!

activated my Wally yesterday and have a problem with 61.5.............72 comes in at 59 signal, but 61.5 is not there. checked alignment and skew and all is fine.

dish is on a tripod and pipe is plumb. changed coax and realigned. still same result!!!

now i am LOST

thanks for any input, Bob

 

[JSheridan]

please cut me some slack on this, i am 81 yrs young and not too tech savvy!

activated my Wally yesterday and have a problem with 61.5.............72 comes in at 59 signal, but 61.5 is not there. checked alignment and skew and all is fine.

dish is on a tripod and pipe is plumb. changed coax and realigned. still same result!!!

now i am LOST

thanks for any input, Bob

It's probably alignment if it's not a line of site problem. What meter did you use to align the dish?

 

[bobtet]

cheap meter............9.95....ebay junk

 

[JSheridan]

cheap meter............9.95....ebay junk

Probably alignment then.

 

[HipKat]

Or you're hitting the wrong sat. typically, if I get high signal on the 72 and nothing on the 61, I come up a notch and move a bit to the right

 

[NYDutch]

When aligning to the azimuth, use the side plates of the mount as the guide, not the LNB arm. Aligning to the arm only works when the skew is very close to 90 degrees.

 

[bobtet]

thanks to you guys, will try again on alignment.
will let you know how it goes.................

 

[bobtet]

Well the frustration continues............... still no 61.5.......I have realigned about six times with the same result..

One time i got 77 at a 70% signal...

I'm done now! Too damn old to worry about crap like this, Maybe when i set up camping it will work better.

 

[NYDutch]

When you were getting 77, were you also getting 72.7? Are absolutely sure you have a clear line of site for 61.5?

BTW, I'm 76 and set my dish up as often as daily, usually in 10-15 minutes. It wasn't like that at first of course, but I kept trying until I got better at it...

 

[bobtet]

i am not camping yet........i set up my tripod right next to my dish that is on a pole for my home setup.

line of site is not a problem, no trees within 200 ft.

i got 77 when i swung to far to the left.

 

[NYDutch]

Which dish and LNB do you have? And which ZIP code are you in?

 

[bobtet]

1000.2................22580

 

[NYDutch]

Is your skew set at 84 degrees using the skew pointer? Elevation at about 46 degrees?

 

[bobtet]

All is well. Broke down and bought a meter (Super Buddy 29)................was off to the right(east) by about two degrees.

Thanks to all hat responded to my needs!!!

 

[Brussam]

big difference with a Supper Buddy