Use Dish 500 for Single Satellite

[cditty]

Do I need an adapter to use a Dish 500 for just one orbital or is there a particular skew setting?

 

[Dah-Henny]

Best thing would be an "I" adapter from dishstore.net

Skew is always 90 on a single satellite set-up.

 

[boba]

You can use the "Y" adapter with a single satellite location azimuth will be off about 4.5 degrees. The dish will preform like an 18" dish 300 with the "I" adapter you get to use the full 20" size.

 

[CowboyDren]

This is all assuming that you have a dp twin lnb. If you don't have a twin, only a plus, just set the skew to zero, and the plus will only see one bird at a time. Then go buy a twin lnb and an i adapter from dishstore.net.

 

[cditty]

Thanks guys.

 

[boba]

This is all assuming that you have a dp twin lnb. If you don't have a twin, only a plus, just set the skew to zero, and the plus will only see one bird at a time. Then go buy a twin lnb and an i adapter from dishstore.net.

Do you have any idea what you are talking about? The OP is looking to aim at a single satellite location, a TWIN is for 2 satellite locations and at 90 degree skew couldn't see 2 locations in most of the country. A single or DUAL LNB is used for one satellite location. Buying a TWIN and an "I" adapter from DISHSTORE makes even less sense because the "I" adapter dosen't have a mounting location for a twin.

 

[sca]

a skew of zero??
thats funny.
try 90 it looks better.
with a dual and i bracket, skew is unimportant. and 90 is the standard setting. because it looks 'normal'.