Need Suggestion to install HH Motor with Dish

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Hello experience satellite user out there. I had bought a HH Motor and
a 18" dish, I had problem setup the dish and the HH Motor to point to
all satellites I could reach.

The pole had setup correctly. I had setup the Rotor according to my
Lat-41 (I live in NY City), then I use the SBS6 as my true south - since
I am located at 74W. Now after I had set it up, pointed to SBS6 with
strongest signal.

But then with I try to position to other satelltes, it seem like it do
not points to the Clerk Belt. Try moving the Lat on both Dish and Rotor
s, still not able to setup correctly.

Any suggestion the setup proceudre and any test case to help align the
setup. It seem like to differnt LAT on both dish and rotor had create
too many variations.

Any on have expereince to share?

MM

 

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MM wrote:

> Hello experience satellite user out there. I had bought a HH Motor and
> a 18" dish, I had problem setup the dish and the HH Motor to point to
> all satellites I could reach.
>
> The pole had setup correctly. I had setup the Rotor according to my
> Lat-41 (I live in NY City), then I use the SBS6 as my true south - since
> I am located at 74W. Now after I had set it up, pointed to SBS6 with
> strongest signal.
>
> But then with I try to position to other satelltes, it seem like it do
> not points to the Clerk Belt. Try moving the Lat on both Dish and Rotor
> s, still not able to setup correctly.
>
> Any suggestion the setup proceudre and any test case to help align the
> setup. It seem like to differnt LAT on both dish and rotor had create
> too many variations.
>
> Any on have expereince to share?
>
> MM
>

It's difficult to use a signal meter to point a DBS dish at a Ku FSS
satellite. That's because the signal will be overwhelmed by a nearby
DBS satellite, and if you just go for the strongest signal, then you
will be pointing at the wrong satellite.

It's better when you can aim at a signal you can pick up with the
receiver and then use the receiver's signal strength indicator to
help you aim, knowing that you're pointed at the right satellite.

However, with an 18" dish, you're not likely to pick up anything from
a Ku FSS satellite. A 30" dish is generally needed for those.

I don't really know what to suggest, aside from just going by the
numbers (ignore the signal) and trial-and-error searching until you
get the best signal across the arc.

But do make sure that the motor is mounted correctly due south on
the pole (and that the dish is due south when the motor is at its
peak position).

 

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Zoyburg,

Thank for sharing your experience, look like I have a lot of
trail-and-error operation in fornt of me:-(

Currently my progress was able to get satellites close to my true south,
any thing beon 30 degree on either size have weak signal, seem like I
need to fine toune to make my dish align to the blet correctly. I guess
I need to make test cases with wide apart satellites from true south to
have better estimate on correctness of both dish and rotor's angle.

BTW just a correction, my dish is a 79cm (30") sish mount on that rotor.

MM

Zoyburg wrote:

> MM wrote:
>
>
>>Hello experience satellite user out there. I had bought a HH Motor and
>>a 18" dish, I had problem setup the dish and the HH Motor to point to
>>all satellites I could reach.
>>
>>The pole had setup correctly. I had setup the Rotor according to my
>>Lat-41 (I live in NY City), then I use the SBS6 as my true south - since
>>I am located at 74W. Now after I had set it up, pointed to SBS6 with
>>strongest signal.
>>
>>But then with I try to position to other satelltes, it seem like it do
>>not points to the Clerk Belt. Try moving the Lat on both Dish and Rotor
>>s, still not able to setup correctly.
>>
>>Any suggestion the setup proceudre and any test case to help align the
>>setup. It seem like to differnt LAT on both dish and rotor had create
>>too many variations.
>>
>>Any on have expereince to share?
>>
>>MM
>>
>
>
> It's difficult to use a signal meter to point a DBS dish at a Ku FSS
> satellite. That's because the signal will be overwhelmed by a nearby
> DBS satellite, and if you just go for the strongest signal, then you
> will be pointing at the wrong satellite.
>
> It's better when you can aim at a signal you can pick up with the
> receiver and then use the receiver's signal strength indicator to
> help you aim, knowing that you're pointed at the right satellite.
>
> However, with an 18" dish, you're not likely to pick up anything from
> a Ku FSS satellite. A 30" dish is generally needed for those.
>
> I don't really know what to suggest, aside from just going by the
> numbers (ignore the signal) and trial-and-error searching until you
> get the best signal across the arc.
>
> But do make sure that the motor is mounted correctly due south on
> the pole (and that the dish is due south when the motor is at its
> peak position).