Does anyone use a rotating motor with their dish? I read a little about it, but have some questions......
Lots of questions from me lately.
These are good questions since they show you're thinking.
An H-H motor (horizon-to-horizon) automatically skews your LNB and moves the dish to the correct azimuth
and elevation of a particular satellite. With a motor, you forget about worrying about changing the LNB skew since the motor skews the entire dish including the LNB. Power to LNB is supplied usually by your receiver via the same cable that brings the received signal back to your receiver. Your receiver may remember the satellite positions, but my experience is the positions are saved in my motor. So, for example, the receiver tells the motor to "Go to Position #10" and the motor goes to its saved Position 10.
In my opinion, a motor is what makes FTA useful. Unless you are like iBoston or Keith Brannen who procure dishes by the dozen and have some place to put them, then us mortals should use a motor to get maximum value from a dish. Even in my tree-blocked yard, I can receive 16 Ku satellites and 5 C satellites by having my dish mounted on a motor.
A motor can be a headache to install and keep functioning correctly, but it's worth it. Especially if you are only connecting your dish to one TV. Now that I know how to do it, I find it fun to deal with its issues.