Whacked the dish in the back garden...

[aj4u]

Ok guys, last night i got bored so i put the dish in the back garden, on a disecq 2300 motor on a patio stand in my garden....

nope its no were near plumb, nope its elevation is not right.. nope i couldn't find anything :P

Please can some one advise what i should do, i used this on dishpointer.com to get my evelation, etc settings..

Your Location Satellite Data Dish Setup Data Latitude: 51.7648°
Longitude: -0.4834°

Name: 0.8W Thor 3, 5

Distance: 38545km
Motor Latitude: 51.8°
Declination Angle: 7.5°
Dish Elevation: °
Elevation: 30.8°
Azimuth (true): 180.4°
Azimuth (magn.): 182.3°
LNB Skew [?]: 0.3°


Dish Skew [?]: 90.0°




Any pointers? i know usals won't work, but i don't care i'll just spend 10 hours moving dish right and left till i find 13E, 30W and 1W thats all i want

thanks aj

[G77]

why wont usals work?

[aj4u]

i dunno, i thought for usals to work the pole in the ground had to be level?

[Robbo]

Forget it.

Get the pole level, and set the elevation right.

You are wasting your time otherwise, it will never work.

[kegnkiwi]

Aj4u I'm not suprised that you could not find anything. Kinda half hearted attempt. I set up the exact same set up the other night with motorised sky dish using a s++t maplins nikkai motor. Base was on flat concrete and pole correct. Motor settings as a your long and lat. ie 53 deg. Dish set a verticle to the ground, just like all the other sat dish's. Pointing up in the air on down at the ground and you way out. With the small sly dish I could not get thor. But 28, 19, and 13e came in just fine. If you don't set the base up correctly even by moving the dish east and west you wont get anything because you will be either too high or too low for the arc. Motor was rubbish and did not work with usals well it kept buggering off to 70 deg east, sent it back and ordered a tm2600.

[aj4u]

i don't have a fixing in the bloody ground lol.. atm i have a patio mount with slabs on top to hold it in place, with a 1m dish with tm2300 motor lol... erm.. getting it level is going to be tricky without a level tool :-/ looks like i be going bnq soon

[kegnkiwi]

Hi mate,

Don't you have a spirit level knocking about if the you have it is sloping just use some bits of wood to level it up. I nicked the weighted parasol base from under the garden furniture and use this for testing. See pics below. I house mine in a car port facing a garage door its only ten foot away but I've tested I know at a guess what angle the signals come down at. PS motor missing waiting for the new one to arrive from these pictures.

[Robbo]

Ideally, the pole should be absolutely plumb!!

But...

With a bit of messing around, it will work to a variable degree with a slightly wonky one.

But have it nowhere near plumb, you ain't got a chance in hell.


What I use for a temporary mount is a Dlack and Decker Workmate and a scaffold pole, works on sloping ground on the grass.

I knock the pole in an inch or 3 then use the workmate to hold it vertical(ish). It does a fair proportion of the arc like that.

[aj4u]

managed to get it going, got 13e 19.2e and 28.2e no need for no spirit level :P... just pointed it to begin in line with my sky dish and then moved up and down till good signal now scanned and got polsat, etc... not getting anything west, etc as soon as i go west dish starts pointing down for some reason :-/ ... please advise


thanks aj

[kegnkiwi]

The dish does roll left and right as it tracks the arc. If you where to set the motor up at 0 on thor. Which is nearly due south you would see the motor rolling left and right as you went from east to west.